BIOTThursday, August 23, 2007

2:00 PM-5:25 PM BCEC -- 107C, Oral
Biophysical and Biomolecular Symposium: Protein Aggregation
Organizers:Todd Przybycien
Margaret Ricci
2:00 PMIntroductory Remarks
2:10 PMDoes one folding defect lead to another? The importance of quaternary structure in transthyretin-mediated inhibition of beta-amyloid aggregation
Lin Liu, Jie Hou, Regina M. Murphy
2:35 PMFolding, unfolding, and fibril formation of human eye lens γC-crystallin
Yongting Wang, Jonathan King
3:00 PMMolecular insights into self-perpetuating conformational changes of prions and amyloids
Peter M Tessier, Susan Lindquist
3:25 PMFolding, misfolding, and aggregation of polyglutamine peptides and proteins
Matthew Tobelmann, Christine Lee, Robert Walters, Regina M. Murphy
3:50 PMIntermission
4:10 PMRefolding aggregation-prone GPCRs and G-protein α subunits from inclusion bodies expressed in Escherichia coli
Emily C. McCusker, Steven E. Bane, Anne Skaja Robinson
4:35 PMNonnative protein polymers: Structure, morphology, and relation to nucleation and growth rates
William F. Weiss IV, Christopher J. Roberts, Abraham M. Lenhoff
5:00 PMOsmolyte controlled nucleation of insulin amyloid fibrillation
Arpan Nayak, Chuang-Chung Lee, Gregory J. McRae, Georges Belfort

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007