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Inside Cover: Primary Steps of pH‐Dependent Insulin Aggregation Kinetics are Governed by Conformational Flexibility (ChemBioChem 11/2009)
Author(s) -
Haas Jürgen,
VöhringerMartinez Esteban,
Bögehold Andreas,
Matthes Dirk,
Hensen Ulf,
Pelah Avishay,
Abel Bernd,
Grubmüller Helmut
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
chembiochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1439-7633
pISSN - 1439-4227
DOI - 10.1002/cbic.200990042
Subject(s) - protonation , flexibility (engineering) , chemistry , kinetics , cover (algebra) , insulin , biophysics , peptide , crystallography , biochemistry , biology , physics , organic chemistry , ion , mathematics , mechanical engineering , statistics , quantum mechanics , engineering , endocrinology
The inside cover picture shows , on the left, the structure of peptide hormone insulin; titrable groups between pH 1 to 7 are highlighted. On the right, structural ensembles from atomistic simulations show that pH‐induced protonation changes of insulin critically affect its conformational flexibility. From top to bottom the number of protonated sites was increased to match displayed pH values. For more information, see the article by H. Grubmüller et al. on p. 1816 ff.