Molecular Mechanism of the Inhibition and Remodeling of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP1–37) Oligomer by Resveratrol from Molecular Dynamics …

Q Wang, L Ning, Y Niu, H Liu, X Yao - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Natural polyphenols are one of the most actively investigated categories of amyloid
inhibitors, and resveratrol has recently been reported to inhibit and remodel the human islet …

Development of a Hybrid-Resolution Force Field for Peptide Self-Assembly Simulations: Optimizing Peptide–Peptide and Peptide–Solvent Interactions

X Cai, W Han - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2022 - ACS Publications
Atomic descriptions of peptide self-assembly are crucial to an understanding of disease-
related peptide aggregation and the design of peptide-assembled materials. Obtaining …

Dimerization process of amyloid-β (29–42) studied by the Hamiltonian replica-permutation molecular dynamics simulations

SG Itoh, H Okumura - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014 - ACS Publications
The amyloid-β peptides form amyloid fibrils which are associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Amyloid-β (29–42) is its C-terminal fragment and a critical determinant of the amyloid …

Connecting macroscopic observables and microscopic assembly events in amyloid formation using coarse grained simulations

NS Bieler, TPJ Knowles, D Frenkel, R Vácha - 2012 - journals.plos.org
The pre-fibrillar stages of amyloid formation have been implicated in cellular toxicity, but
have proved to be challenging to study directly in experiments and simulations. Rational …

The role of histidines in amyloid β fibril assembly

K Brännström, T Islam, L Sandblad, A Olofsson - FEBS letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Low pH has a strong stabilising effect on the fibrillar assembly of amyloid β, which is
associated with Alzheimer's disease. The stabilising effect is already pronounced at pH 6.0 …

[HTML][HTML] Driving forces and structural determinants of steric zipper peptide oligomer formation elucidated by atomistic simulations

D Matthes, V Gapsys, BL de Groot - Journal of molecular biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Understanding the structural and energetic requirements of non-fibrillar oligomer formation
harbors the potential to decipher an important yet still elusive part of amyloidogenic peptide …

Aβ “stretching-and-packing” cross-seeding mechanism can trigger tau protein aggregation

R Qi, Y Luo, G Wei, R Nussinov… - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
There are synergistic effects of Aβ and tau protein in Alzheimer's disease. Aβ1–42 protofibril
seeds induce conversion of human tau protein into β-sheet-rich toxic tau oligomers …

From Aβ filament to fibril: molecular mechanism of surface-activated secondary nucleation from all-atom MD simulations

N Schwierz, CV Frost, PL Geissler… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Secondary nucleation pathways in which existing amyloid fibrils catalyze the formation of
new aggregates and neurotoxic oligomers are of immediate importance for the onset and …

Spontaneous formation of twisted Aβ16-22 fibrils in large-scale molecular-dynamics simulations

M Cheon, I Chang, CK Hall - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is associated with fatal neurodegenerative diseases, including
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Mapping out kinetics along the aggregation pathway could …

Energy Landscapes for the Aggregation of Aβ17–42

K Röder, DJ Wales - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018 - ACS Publications
The aggregation of the Aβ peptide (Aβ1–42) to form fibrils is a key feature of Alzheimer's
disease. The mechanism is thought to be a nucleation stage followed by an elongation …