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ArticleBiophysical journal2015

A Kinetic Model for Cell Damage Caused by Oligomer Formation.

Liu Hong, Ya-Jing Huang, Wen-An Yong

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Liu HongZhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Peking, P.R. China. Electronic address: zcamhl@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Ya-Jing HuangZhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Peking, P.R. China.
Wen-An YongZhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Peking, P.R. China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is well known that the formation of amyloid fiber may cause invertible damage to cells, although the underlying mechanism has not been fully understood. In this article, a microscopic model considering the detailed processes of amyloid formation and cell damage is constructed based on four simple assumptions, one of which is that cell damage is raised by oligomers rather than mature fibrils. By taking the maximum entropy principle, this microscopic model in the form of infinite mass-action equations together with two reaction-convection partial differential equations (PDEs) has been greatly coarse-grained into a macroscopic system consisting of only five ordinary differential equations (ODEs). With this simple model, the effects of primary nucleation, elongation, fragmentation, and protein and seeds concentration on amyloid formation and cell damage have been extensively explored and compared with experiments. We hope that our results will provide new insights into the quantitative linkage between amyloid formation and cell damage.

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Models, BiologicalProtein MultimerizationAmyloidCell Physiological PhenomenaComputer SimulationIonsKineticsAmyloidIons

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PMID26445435
PMCPMC4601094

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