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_id: '10361'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Understanding how normally soluble peptides and proteins aggregate to form
amyloid fibrils is central to many areas of modern biomolecular science, ranging
from the development of functional biomaterials to the design of rational therapeutic
strategies against increasingly prevalent medical conditions such as Alzheimer's
and Parkinson's diseases. As such, there is a great need to develop models to
mechanistically describe how amyloid fibrils are formed from precursor peptides
and proteins. Here we review and discuss how ideas and concepts from chemical
reaction kinetics can help to achieve this objective. In particular, we show how
a combination of theory, experiments, and computer simulations, based on chemical
kinetics, provides a general formalism for uncovering, at the molecular level,
the mechanistic steps that underlie the phenomenon of amyloid fibril formation.
acknowledgement: "We acknowledge support from the Swiss National Science Foundation
(T.C.T.M.); Peterhouse,\r\nCambridge (T.C.T.M.); the Royal Society (A.S.); the Academy
of Medical Sciences (A.S.); the\r\nWellcome Trust (A.S., M.V., C.M.D., T.P.J.K.);
the Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Diseases\r\n(M.V., C.M.D., T.P.J.K.); the Biotechnology
and Biological Sciences Research Council (C.M.D.,\r\nT.P.J.K.); and the Frances
and Augustus Newman Foundation (T.P.J.K.). The research leading\r\nto these results
has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the\r\nEuropean
Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) through the ERC grant\r\nPhysProt
(337969)."
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Thomas C.T.
full_name: Michaels, Thomas C.T.
last_name: Michaels
- first_name: Anđela
full_name: Šarić, Anđela
id: bf63d406-f056-11eb-b41d-f263a6566d8b
last_name: Šarić
orcid: 0000-0002-7854-2139
- first_name: Johnny
full_name: Habchi, Johnny
last_name: Habchi
- first_name: Sean
full_name: Chia, Sean
last_name: Chia
- first_name: Georg
full_name: Meisl, Georg
last_name: Meisl
- first_name: Michele
full_name: Vendruscolo, Michele
last_name: Vendruscolo
- first_name: Christopher M.
full_name: Dobson, Christopher M.
last_name: Dobson
- first_name: Tuomas P.J.
full_name: Knowles, Tuomas P.J.
last_name: Knowles
citation:
ama: Michaels TCT, Šarić A, Habchi J, et al. Chemical kinetics for bridging molecular
mechanisms and macroscopic measurements of amyloid fibril formation. Annual
Review of Physical Chemistry. 2018;69(1):273-298. doi:10.1146/annurev-physchem-050317-021322
apa: Michaels, T. C. T., Šarić, A., Habchi, J., Chia, S., Meisl, G., Vendruscolo,
M., … Knowles, T. P. J. (2018). Chemical kinetics for bridging molecular mechanisms
and macroscopic measurements of amyloid fibril formation. Annual Review of
Physical Chemistry. Annual Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physchem-050317-021322
chicago: Michaels, Thomas C.T., Anđela Šarić, Johnny Habchi, Sean Chia, Georg Meisl,
Michele Vendruscolo, Christopher M. Dobson, and Tuomas P.J. Knowles. “Chemical
Kinetics for Bridging Molecular Mechanisms and Macroscopic Measurements of Amyloid
Fibril Formation.” Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Annual Reviews,
2018. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physchem-050317-021322.
ieee: T. C. T. Michaels et al., “Chemical kinetics for bridging molecular
mechanisms and macroscopic measurements of amyloid fibril formation,” Annual
Review of Physical Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 1. Annual Reviews, pp. 273–298,
2018.
ista: Michaels TCT, Šarić A, Habchi J, Chia S, Meisl G, Vendruscolo M, Dobson CM,
Knowles TPJ. 2018. Chemical kinetics for bridging molecular mechanisms and macroscopic
measurements of amyloid fibril formation. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry.
69(1), 273–298.
mla: Michaels, Thomas C. T., et al. “Chemical Kinetics for Bridging Molecular Mechanisms
and Macroscopic Measurements of Amyloid Fibril Formation.” Annual Review of
Physical Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 1, Annual Reviews, 2018, pp. 273–98, doi:10.1146/annurev-physchem-050317-021322.
short: T.C.T. Michaels, A. Šarić, J. Habchi, S. Chia, G. Meisl, M. Vendruscolo,
C.M. Dobson, T.P.J. Knowles, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 69 (2018) 273–298.
date_created: 2021-11-26T12:52:12Z
date_published: 2018-02-28T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-11-26T15:58:19Z
day: '28'
doi: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-050317-021322
extern: '1'
external_id:
pmid:
- '29490200'
intvolume: ' 69'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- physical and theoretical chemistry
language:
- iso: eng
month: '02'
oa_version: None
page: 273-298
pmid: 1
publication: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1545-1593
issn:
- 0066-426X
publication_status: published
publisher: Annual Reviews
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Chemical kinetics for bridging molecular mechanisms and macroscopic measurements
of amyloid fibril formation
type: journal_article
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