Detection of amyloidogenic peptides or domains in proteins is of paramount importance towards understanding their role in amyloidosis in conformational diseases. This thesis explores different methods towards detection and prediction of amyloidogenic peptides using a variety of bioinformatic analytical methods. Bioinformatic analysis of secondary structural changes is employed to determine whether classes of structurally ambivalent peptides, mainly discordant and chameleon sequences, are efficient predictors of amyloidogenic segments. This analysis elucidates statistical relationships between discordance, chameleonism, and amyloidogenicity across a database of protein domains (SCOP), a subset of amyloid-forming proteins, and the prion famil...
Altres ajuts: SUDOE, INTERREG IV B, FEDER [SOE4/P1/E831to S.V.]; ICREA [ICREA Academia 2009 to S.V.]...
Amyloid fibrillar aggregates of polypeptides are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases. Sh...
Understanding which peptides and proteins have the potential to undergo amyloid formation and what d...
La formation d'agrégats protéiques insolubles et fibreux, appelés fibrilles amyloïdes, est impliquée...
A broad range of human diseases are linked to the formation of insoluble, fibrous, protein aggregate...
Amyloids consist of repetitions of a specific polypeptide chain in a regular cross-β-sheet conformat...
Motivation: Experimental evidence suggests that certain short pro-tein segments have stronger amyloi...
AbstractNumerous studies have shown that the ability to form amyloid fibrils is an inherent property...
AbstractConformational transitions are thought to be the prime mechanism of amyloid formation in pri...
Typical amyloid diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's were thought to exclusively result from...
Motivation: Experimental evidence suggests that certain short protein segments have stronger amyloid...
Amyloids consist of repetitions of a specific polypeptide chain in a regular cross-β-sheet conformat...
Background: around 1% of human proteins are predicted to contain a disordered and low complexity pri...
Altres ajuts: ICREA-Academia 2015 to S.V.Prion-like behaviour is attracting much attention due to th...
Prions are a particular type of amyloids with the ability to self-perpetuate and propagate in vivo. ...
Altres ajuts: SUDOE, INTERREG IV B, FEDER [SOE4/P1/E831to S.V.]; ICREA [ICREA Academia 2009 to S.V.]...
Amyloid fibrillar aggregates of polypeptides are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases. Sh...
Understanding which peptides and proteins have the potential to undergo amyloid formation and what d...
La formation d'agrégats protéiques insolubles et fibreux, appelés fibrilles amyloïdes, est impliquée...
A broad range of human diseases are linked to the formation of insoluble, fibrous, protein aggregate...
Amyloids consist of repetitions of a specific polypeptide chain in a regular cross-β-sheet conformat...
Motivation: Experimental evidence suggests that certain short pro-tein segments have stronger amyloi...
AbstractNumerous studies have shown that the ability to form amyloid fibrils is an inherent property...
AbstractConformational transitions are thought to be the prime mechanism of amyloid formation in pri...
Typical amyloid diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's were thought to exclusively result from...
Motivation: Experimental evidence suggests that certain short protein segments have stronger amyloid...
Amyloids consist of repetitions of a specific polypeptide chain in a regular cross-β-sheet conformat...
Background: around 1% of human proteins are predicted to contain a disordered and low complexity pri...
Altres ajuts: ICREA-Academia 2015 to S.V.Prion-like behaviour is attracting much attention due to th...
Prions are a particular type of amyloids with the ability to self-perpetuate and propagate in vivo. ...
Altres ajuts: SUDOE, INTERREG IV B, FEDER [SOE4/P1/E831to S.V.]; ICREA [ICREA Academia 2009 to S.V.]...
Amyloid fibrillar aggregates of polypeptides are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases. Sh...
Understanding which peptides and proteins have the potential to undergo amyloid formation and what d...