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Position-dependent electrostatic protection against protein aggregation.
Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology - 25 May 2009
Buell Alexander K, Tartaglia Gian Gaetano, Birkett Neil R, Waudby Christopher A, Vendruscolo Michele, Salvatella Xavier, Welland Mark E, Dobson Christopher M, Knowles Tuomas P J
Abstract excerpt
Proteins with a high propensity to aggregate can be largely prevented from doing so with surprisingly small changes to their primary structure. By using a combination of rational design and quantitative measurements of aggregation rates, we show that adding a single charge in specific "gatekeeper" regions is sufficient to change the timescale for amyloid fibril growth from minutes to weeks, thereby dramatically...
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