Discrete molecular dynamics simulations of peptide aggregation
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Discrete molecular dynamics simulations of peptide aggregation.
We study the aggregation of peptides using the discrete molecular dynamics simulations. Specifically, at temperatures above the alpha-helix melting temperature of a single peptide, the model peptides aggregate into a multilayer parallel beta-sheet structure. This structure has an interstrand distance of 4.8 A and an intersheet distance of 10 A, which agree with experimental observations. Our mo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.69.041908