amyloid Fibril
The role of conformational flexibility in β2-microglobulin amyloid fibril formation at neutral pH
... form amyloid fibrils, a generic property of possibly all polypeptide chains, is driven by main-chain/main-chain interactions, which are modulated by the sequence of amino acid ...that amyloid fibril ...
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Universality in the morphology and mechanics of coarsening amyloid fibril networks
... Amyloid fibril networks form via two ...into amyloid fibrils that share a common cross-β structure of intertwined layers of β -sheets extending in a direction parallel to the fibril axis [1, ...
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Amyloid fibril nucleation: effect of amino acid hydrophobicity
... nanosized amyloid fibril (protofilament) of successively layered β-sheets with alternating weakly hydrophobic (WH) and strongly hydrophobic (SH) surfaces (Figure 1), we extend our recently developed lattice ...
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pH-induced molecular shedding drives the formation of amyloid fibril-derived oligomers
... Although amyloid fibrils have been shown previously to exhibit dynamic behaviour in solution (6, 34), the importance of such dynamic excursions in the context of biological activity has remained ...studying ...
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Does deamidation of islet amyloid polypeptide accelerate amyloid fibril formation?
... hIAPP fibril formation, 24, 25 the effects on the deamidation rate, the deamidation site(s), and the effects of isomeric deamidation products of hIAPP, however, have not yet been fully ...
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Structural Identity of Bence Jones and Amyloid Fibril Proteins in a Patient with Plasma Cell Dyscrasia and Amyloidosis
... the amyloid fibril protein isolated from the small intestine of a patient with plasma cell dyscrasia and associated amyloidosis has been determined and compared with the sequence of the k-type Bence Jones ...
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Amyloid Fibril Nucleation In Reverse Micelles
... 40-residue amyloid beta peptide folds into a structure that may nucleate amyloid fibril formation when it is encapsulated in a reverse micelle (Yeung and Axelsen, ...nucleate fibril formation ...
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Amyloid fibril based bionanotechnologies
... 100]. Amyloid, originally meaning starch-like, refers to the protein deposits that were reminiscent of starch when first observed by Rudolph Virchow in 1854 [101, ...that amyloid deposits were made of ...
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The protective effect of crocin on the amyloid fibril formation of aβ42 peptide in vitro
... amyloid fibril formation in vitro, probably through the stabilization of the helical structure, which prevents fibril formation and dissolves previously formed ...
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Suppression of Sup35 amyloid fibril formation by group II chaperonin from Thermoplasma acidophilum
... typical amyloid fibril in vitro [34]. Interactions between Sup35NM amyloid fibrils with various molecular chaperones have been re- ported in many studies involving Hsp104, Hsp70, and Hsp40 [1,38,39], ...
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Amyloid Fibril Solubility
... [12] Jarrett, J. T.; Costa, P. R.; Griffin, R. G.; Lansbury, P. T. Models of the β Protein C-terminus: Differences in Amyloid Structure May Lead to Segregation of “Long” and “Short” Fibrils. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994 ...
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Amyloid fibril protein in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, Portuguese type Definition of molecular abnormality in transthyretin (prealbumin)
... Amyloid fibril protein in patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy is known to be chemically related to transthyretin (TTR), the plasma protein that is usually referred to as ...on amyloid ...
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Analysis of toxic amyloid fibril interactions at natively derived membranes by ellipsometry
... with amyloid is complex due to the heterogeneity of amyloid assembly and the large numbers of different species identified during amyloid formation ...During fibril formation, a range of ...
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Use of a Mid Infrared Free Electron Laser (MIR FEL) for Dissociation of the Amyloid Fibril Aggregates of a Peptide
... the amyloid fibrils of lysozyme could be refolded into their active state using FEL irradiation tuned to the amide I band ...the fibril structures were dissociated, the primary structure was not destroyed, ...
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The D-amino acid peptide D3 reduces amyloid fibril boosted HIV-1 infectivity
... reduce fibril boosted viral infectivity, we firstly wanted to un- ravel whether fibrils or even monomers or oligomers of Aβ are the causative agents for the infectivity enhancing ...
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Application of Lysine specific labeling to detect transient interactions present during human Lysozyme Amyloid Fibril formation
... Populating transient and partially unfolded species is a crucial step in the formation and accumulation of amyloid fibrils formed from pathogenic variants of human lysozyme linked with a rare but fatal hereditary ...
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Effects of Free Fatty Acid on Polymerization of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP) In Vitro and on Amyloid Fibril Formation in Cultivated Isolated Islets of Transgenic Mice Overexpressing Human IAPP
... Because amyloid fibril formation is a nucleation- dependent process, the very initial fibril formation is important to study to understand the develop- ment of amyloid ...
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AIC under the framework of least squares estimation
... The first example involves the size and distribution of amyloid fibrils. Many diseases, such as Alzheimers, Huntingtons and Prion diseases (e.g. mad cow) are related to aggregations of proteins which exhibit an ...
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Mechanical Deformation Mechanisms and Properties of Prion Fibrils Probed by Atomistic Simulations
... of amyloid fibrils is measured in the order of 1 ...of amyloid fibrils is evaluated in the order of 1 to 10 GPa [8, ...of amyloid fibril [23]. Moreover, the fracture toughness of ...
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An imaging and systems modeling approach to fibril breakage enables prediction of amyloid behavior
... during amyloid assembly are potentially associated with the pathogenic properties connected to amyloid disease, such as the potential to cause membrane damage, cytotox- icity, and organ dysfunction ...of ...
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