An efficient kinetic model for assemblies of amyloid fibrils and its application to polyglutamine aggregation.

Protein polymerization consists in the aggregation of single monomers into polymers that may fragment. Fibrils assembly is a key process in amyloid diseases. Up to now, protein aggregation was commonly mathematically simulated by a polymer size-structured ordinary differential equations (ODE) system...

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Main Authors: Stéphanie Prigent, Annabelle Ballesta, Frédérique Charles, Natacha Lenuzza, Pierre Gabriel, Léon Matar Tine, Human Rezaei, Marie Doumic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3496744?pdf=render