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Atomic Scale Structural Studies of Macromolecular Assemblies by Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Published on: September 17, 2017
A coarse-grained molecular model of amyloid fibrils systems
Shaden M Daghash1, Oscar M Matus Rivas1, Raffaele Mezzenga2,3
1Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, 3610 University Street, Montréal, QC H3A 0C5, Canada. alejandro.rey@mcgill.ca.
Abstract:
We report a computational model for amyloid fibrils and discuss its main features and ability to match different experimental morphological characteristics. The model captures the liquid crystalline and cholesteric behaviours in short and rigid amyloid fibrils and shows promising extendibility to more complex colloidal liquid crystals.
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