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Amyloid beta peptide 15 (Aβ 34-42)

This part encodes a part of the Amyloid 𝛽 fragment (34-42) which has the ability to bind to A𝛽 plaques inside the brain.

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Usage and Biology

Type of Amyloid-beta binding peptide start from amino acid 34 to 42, this peptide characterized by its solubility which is 132 ± 29 μm.

Features and codon optimize

This sequence is optimized for E. coli bacteria

Source

Homo sapiens Amyloid-beta precursor protein - UniProt (P05067)

References

1-Zhao, Y., Cai, J., Liu, Z., Li, Y., Zheng, C., Zheng, Y., ... & Liu, Y. (2018). Nanocomposites inhibit the formation, mitigate the neurotoxicity, and facilitate the removal of β-amyloid aggregates in Alzheimer’s disease mice. Nano letters, 19(2), 674-683.

Dry lab

Modeling

Due to the nonavailability of a model to this peptide we modeled it in our used modeling software's and after the Running of the quality assessment, the models have been scored to get the top model.

                               Figure 1.: Amyloid-beta (34-42) top model visualized by pymol.

Sequence and Features