Amyloid beta

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Introduction

Amyloids are insoluble fibrous proteins

The most reasonable structure determined structure consists of two helices, the first helix (residues 8-25) is well debined and has an RMSD of 0.38 angstroms while the second (residues 28-38) is interrupted at the Ile32-Gly33 connection connected by a kink (residues 26 and 27).

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