Showing posts with label Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Show all posts

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