Communications Biology (Aug 2022)

A thermodynamic investigation of amyloid precursor protein processing by human γ-secretase

  • Xiaoli Lu,
  • Jing Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03818-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

Thermodynamic analysis from unbiased molecular dynamics and bias-exchange metadynamics simulations reveals possible mechanisms on how γ-secretase cleaves the transmembrane domains of amyloid precursor protein into amyloid-β peptides.