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ArticleScientific reports2016

Few Ramachandran Angle Changes Provide Interaction Strength Increase in Aβ42 versus Aβ40 Amyloid Fibrils.

Oscar H Bastidas, Benjamin Green, Mary Sprague, Michael H Peters

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Oscar H BastidasDepartment of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Benjamin GreenDepartment of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Mary SpragueDepartment of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Michael H PetersDepartment of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pathology of Alzheimer's disease can ultimately be traced to the increased aggregation stability of Aβ42 peptides which possess two extra residues (Ile 41 &Ala 42) that the non-pathological strain (Aβ40) lacks. We have found Aβ42 fibrils to exhibit stronger energies in inter-chain interactions and we have also identified the cause for this increase to be the result of different Ramachandran angle values in certain residues of the Aβ42 strain compared to Aβ40. These unique angle configurations result in the peptide planes in the fibril structures to be more vertical along the fibril axis for Aβ42 which thus reduces the inter-atomic distance between interacting atoms on vicinal peptide chains thereby increasing the electrostatic interaction energies. We lastly postulate that these different Ramachandran angle values could possibly be traced to the unique conformational folding avenues sampled by the Aβ42 peptide owing to the presence of its two extra residues.

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Alzheimer DiseaseProtein AggregatesAmyloid beta-PeptidesHumansPeptide FragmentsAmyloid beta-Peptidesamyloid beta-protein (1-40)amyloid beta-protein (1-42)Peptide FragmentsProtein Aggregates

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PMID27808259
PMCPMC5093553
OpenAlexW2548916428

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