Thursday, April 8, 2010

The amyloid tie-rack

I am really amused at how these polypeptide strands end up looking remarkably like ties on a tie-rack.



Reference: Anselm H. C. Horn and Heinrich Sticht, "Amyloid-β42 Oligomer Structures from Fibrils: A Systematic Molecular Dynamics Study", J. Phys. Chem. B, 2010, 114 (6), pp 2219–2226, doi:10.1021/jp100023q

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