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Mechanical probes of SOD1 predict systematic trends in metal and dimer affinity of ALS-associated mutants.
Journal of molecular biology - 11 Mar 2013
Das Atanu, Plotkin Steven S
Abstract excerpt
Mutations and oxidative modification in the protein Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) have been implicated in the death of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a presently incurable, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease. Here we employ steered, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations in implicit solvent to investigate the significance of either mutations or post-translational modifications...
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