@article{bibcite_100, keywords = {Computer Simulation, Protein Folding, Thermodynamics, Animals, Humans, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Alzheimer Disease, Amino Acids, Prions}, author = {G. G. Tartaglia and A. Cavalli and R. Pellarin and A. Caflisch}, title = {The role of aromaticity, exposed surface, and dipole moment in determining protein aggregation rates}, abstract = {
The mechanisms by which peptides and proteins form ordered aggregates are not well understood. Here we focus on the physicochemical properties of amino acids that favor ordered aggregation and suggest a parameter-free model that is able to predict the change of aggregation rates over a large set of natural sequences. Furthermore, the results of the parameter-free model correlate well with the aggregation propensities of a set of peptides designed by computer simulations.
}, year = {2004}, journal = {Protein Science}, volume = {13}, pages = {1939-1941}, month = {2004 Jul}, issn = {0961-8368}, doi = {10.1110/ps.04663504}, language = {eng}, }