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cond-mat.soft2010★ 143 cited
What drives amyloid molecules to assemble into oligomers and fibrils?
Jeremy Schmit, Kingshuk Ghosh, Ken Dill
We develop a general theory for three states of equilibrium of amyloid peptides: the monomer, oligomer, and fibril. We assume that the oligomeric state is a disordered micelle-like…
cond-mat.soft2010★ 18 cited
Electrostatics and aggregation: how charge can turn a crystal into a gel
Jeremy Schmit, Stephen Whitelam, Ken Dill
The crystallization of proteins or colloids is often hindered by the appearance of aggregates of low fractal dimension called gels. Here we study the effect of electrostatics upon…