Issue December 2009No. 3 (p 245-398) December 2009 ISSN 0739-110 Simulation Studies on the Stabilities of Aggregates Formed by Fibril-Forming Segments of α-Synuclein (p. 259-269)We performed molecular dynamics simulations for various oligomers with different β-sheet conformations consisting of α-Synuclein 71-82 residues using an all atom force field and explicit water model. Tetramers of antiparallel β-sheet are shown to be stable, whereas parallel sheets are highly unstable due to the repulsive interactions between bulky and polar side chains as well as the weaker backbone hydrogen bonds. We also investigated the stabilities of double antiparallel β-sheets stacked with asymmetric and symmetric geometries. Our results show that this 12 amino acid residue peptide can form stable β-sheet conformers at 320K and higher temperatures. The backbone hydrogen bonds in β-sheet and the steric packing between hydrophobic side chains between β-sheets are shown to give conformational stabilities.
Jeseong Yoon1 1School of Chemistry, Subscription is more cost effective than purchasing PDFs on-the-fly. Click here for details. |