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ReviewAnnual review of physical chemistry2011

Toward a molecular theory of early and late events in monomer to amyloid fibril formation.

John E Straub, D Thirumalai

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Review in Annual review of physical chemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.

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103citing papers in PubMed
14.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 273 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

John E StraubDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. straub@bu.edu
D Thirumalai
Boston University · USUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

Probing the Principles Governing Protein AggregationR01GM076688 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI STRAUB, JOHN E. · 2006 to 2009
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076688
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative understanding of the kinetics of fibril formation and the molecular mechanism of transition from monomers to fibrils is needed to obtain insights into the growth of amyloid fibrils and more generally self-assembly multisubunit protein complexes. Significant advances using computations of protein aggregation in a number of systems have established generic and sequence-specific aspects of the early steps in oligomer formation. Theoretical considerations, which view oligomer and fibril growth as diffusion in a complex energy landscape, and computational studies, involving minimal lattice and coarse-grained models, have revealed general principles governing the transition from monomeric protein to ordered fibrillar aggregates. Detailed atomistic calculations have explored the early stages of the protein aggregation pathway for a number of amyloidogenic proteins, most notably amyloid β- (Aβ-) protein and fragments from proteins linked to various diseases. These computational studies have provided insights into the role of sequence, role of water, and specific interatomic interactions underlying the thermodynamics and dynamics of elementary kinetic steps in the aggregation pathway. Novel methods are beginning to illustrate the structural basis for the production of Aβ-peptides through interactions with secretases in the presence of membranes. We show that a variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from scaling arguments to minimal models to atomistic simulations, are needed as a complement to experimental studies probing the principles governing protein aggregation.

Indexed as

Models, MolecularAmyloidAmyloid beta-PeptidesAmyloidogenic ProteinsAmyloidosisAnimalsHumansKineticsPeptide FragmentsProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein FoldingProteinsThermodynamicsWaterAmyloidAmyloid beta-PeptidesAmyloidogenic ProteinsPeptide FragmentsProteinsWater

Identifiers

PMID21219143
PMCPMC11237996
OpenAlexW2107947409

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