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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2017

Backbone Engineering within a Latent β-Hairpin Structure to Design Inhibitors of Polyglutamine Amyloid Formation.

Karunakar Kar, Matthew A Baker, George A Lengyel, Cody L Hoop, Ravindra Kodali, In-Ja Byeon, W Seth Horne, Patrick C A van der Wel, Ronald Wetzel

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Article in Journal of molecular biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Karunakar KarDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Matthew A BakerDepartment of Chemistry, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
George A LengyelDepartment of Chemistry, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Cody L HoopDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Ravindra KodaliDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
In-Ja ByeonDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
W Seth HorneDepartment of Chemistry, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Patrick C A van der WelDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Ronald WetzelDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Electronic address: rwetzel@pitt.edu.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Structures and Properties of Polyglutamine Proteins and Their AggregatesR01AG019322 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE · PI WETZEL, RONALD B · 2001 to 2014
$4.6M
Molecular Mimics of Protein Tertiary Folding from Primary Sequence InformationR01GM107161 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI HORNE, WILLIAM SETH · 2013 to 2022
$2.6M
Training in the Molecular Biophysics and Structural BiologyT32GM088119 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI HINCK, ANDREW P · 2011 to 2020
$1.6M
Structural polymorphism in the misfolding and aggregation of expanded polyglutamine proteinsR01GM112678 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CONWAY, JAMES F. · 2015 to 2019
$1.4M
Mechanisms of amyloid nucleationR01GM099718 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WETZEL, RONALD B · 2012 to 2015
$1.1M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG019322NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099718NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107161NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM112678NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM088119
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Candidates for the toxic molecular species in the expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat diseases range from various types of aggregates to "misfolded" monomers. One way to vet these candidates is to develop mutants that restrict conformational landscapes. Previously, we inserted two self-complementary β-hairpin enhancing motifs into a short polyQ sequence to generate a mutant, here called "βHP," that exhibits greatly improved amyloid nucleation without measurably enhancing β-structure in the monomer ensemble. We extend these studies here by introducing single-backbone H-bond impairing modifications

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Protein EngineeringAmino Acid SequenceAmyloid beta-PeptidesHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyPeptidesProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsProtein Structure, SecondaryReproducibility of ResultsAmyloid beta-PeptidesPeptidespolyglutaminedock-and-lockelongationMAS-NMRnucleationtrpzip

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PMID27986569
PMCPMC5286556
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