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Comparative MD analysis of the stability of transthyretin providing insight into the fibrillation mechanism.
Biopolymers - 1 May 2007
Sørensen Jesper, Hamelberg Donald, Schiøtt Birgit, McCammon J Andrew
Abstract excerpt
Proteins can misfold and aggregate, which is believed to be the cause of a variety of diseases, affecting very diverse organs in the body. Many questions about the nature of aggregation and the proteins that are involved in these events are still left unanswered. One of the proteins that is known to form amyloids is transthyretin (TTR), the secondary transporter of thyroxine, and transporter of retinol-binding...
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