Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Merger of structure and material in nacre and bone–Perspectives on de novo biomimetic materials

HD Espinosa, JE Rim, F Barthelat… - Progress in Materials …, 2009 - Elsevier
In contrast to synthetic materials, evolutionary developments in biology have resulted in
materials with remarkable structural properties, made out of relatively weak constituents …

Insights from coarse-grained Gō models for protein folding and dynamics

RD Hills Jr, CL Brooks III - International journal of molecular sciences, 2009 - mdpi.com
Exploring the landscape of large scale conformational changes such as protein folding at
atomistic detail poses a considerable computational challenge. Coarse-grained …

Nanomaterials design and tests for neural tissue engineering

GAA Saracino, D Cigognini, D Silva, A Caprini… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructured scaffolds recently showed great promise in tissue engineering:
nanomaterials can be tailored at the molecular level and scaffold morphology may more …

Coarse-grained models for protein aggregation

C Wu, JE Shea - Current opinion in structural biology, 2011 - Elsevier
The aggregation of soluble proteins into fibrillar species is a complex process that spans
many lengths and time scales, and that involves the formation of numerous on-pathway and …

Simulations as analytical tools to understand protein aggregation and predict amyloid conformation

B Ma, R Nussinov - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2006 - Elsevier
Computational tools are increasingly being applied to solve the protein aggregation
problem, providing insight into amyloid structures and aggregation mechanisms. The …

Conformational preferences and phase behavior of intrinsically disordered low complexity sequences: insights from multiscale simulations

KM Ruff, RV Pappu, AS Holehouse - Current opinion in structural biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Low complexity (LC) sequences are prominent in eukaryotic proteomes.•LC
sequences are composed of a parsimonious subset of the naturally occurring amino …

Protein aggregation: in silico algorithms and applications

R Prabakaran, P Rawat, AM Thangakani, S Kumar… - Biophysical …, 2021 - Springer
Protein aggregation is a topic of immense interest to the scientific community due to its role
in several neurodegenerative diseases/disorders and industrial importance. Several in silico …

Advances in the understanding of protein misfolding and aggregation through molecular dynamics simulation

A Rahman, B Saikia, CR Gogoi, A Baruah - Progress in Biophysics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aberrant protein folding known as protein misfolding is counted as one of the striking factors
of neurodegenerative diseases. The extensive range of pathologies caused by protein …

[HTML][HTML] Kinetics of amyloid formation and membrane interaction with amyloidogenic proteins

RM Murphy - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 2007 - Elsevier
Interest in amyloidogenesis has exploded in recent years, as scientists recognize the role of
amyloid protein aggregates in degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's …