Elsevier From Globular Proteins to Amyloids (Commonwealth and International Library)

Product Description From Globular Proteins to Amyloids proposes a model and mechanism for explaining protein misfolding. Concepts presented are based on a model originally intended to show how proteins attain their native conformations. This model is quantitative in nature and founded upon arguments derived from information theory. It facilitates prediction and simulation of the amyloid fibrillation process, also identifying the progressive changes that occur in native proteins that lead to the emergence of amyloid aggregations. Review Introduces basic rules for protein folding, along with the conditions that result in misfolding About the Author Professor Irena Roterman-Konieczna her completed her PhD at the Nicolaus Copernicus Medical Academy Krakow, Poland and undertook her postdoctoral studies at Cornell University, USA. She is the director of the Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine at Jagiellonian University – Medical College, Poland. Her fields of interest are protein structure, folding simulation as well as systems biology. She is the author of Protein Folding in Silico, published by Woodhead Publishing in 2012. She is the Chief Editor of the journal Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems (de Gruyter).