Early Stage Protein Misfolding and Amyloid Aggregation /

• Other Authors: Sandal, Massimo (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, MA : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, 2017.
• Series: International review of cell and molecular biology ; v. 329.
• Subjects: Prions.; Amyloid.; Protein folding.; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• From the evolution of protein sequences able to resist self-assembly to the prediction of aggregation propensity
• Protein aggregation and molecular crowding: perspectives from multiscale simulations
• Structural characteristiscs of [alpha]-synuclein oligomers
• Effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on aggregation of physiologically important intrinsically disordered proteins
• The nucleantion of protein aggregates : from crystals to amyloids fibrils
• What makes a prion: infectious proteins from animals to yeast
• The structure of mammalian prions and their aggregates.