Amyloid - Forming Peptide

Description:

This small heptapeptide drives the entire Sup35 protein to self-assemble into amyloid fibrils

Sequence:

GNNQQNY

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Name	Amyloid - Forming Peptide
Category	Amyloid Related Peptides
One Letter Code	GNNQQNY
Three Letter Code	{Gly}{Asn}{Asn}{Gln}{Gln}{Asn}{Tyr}
Molecular Weight	836.800
Application	Alzheimer's DiseaseParkinson's Disease

Strodel, Birgit, Chris S. Whittleston, and David J. Wales. "Thermodynamics and kinetics of aggregation for the GNNQQNY peptide." Journal of the American Chemical Society 129.51 (2007): 16005-16014.

Zhang, Zhi-Yong, Xian-Jin Liu, and Xiao-Yue Hong. "Effects of home preparation on pesticide residues in cabbage." Food Control 18.12 (2007): 1484-1487.

Zheng, Jie, et al. "Structural stability and dynamics of an amyloid-forming peptide GNNQQNY from the yeast prion sup-35." Biophysical journal 91.3 (2006): 824-833.