Brigita Urbanc on Distinct thermodynamic signatures of oligomer generation in the aggregation of the amyloid-β peptide.
COMMENT This Nature Chemistry paper by Cohen and collaborators describes a beautiful and thorough study of Aβ-protein fibril formation. The focus is the 42-amino-acids-long alloform Aβ42, which is the most strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease. Aβ42 ...