Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

1779-Pos Board B99 BUILDING BIGGER: MODELING LARGE-SCALE PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN AMYLOIDOSIS. Michael Bergman 1780-Pos Board B100 COMPARISON OF STABILITIES OF FIBRILS OF THE AMYLOID-BETA PEP- TIDES. Timir Sil, Kanchan Garai 1781-Pos Board B101 REGULATION OF BACE1 MRNA EXPRESSION IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE BY GREEN TEA CATECHINS AND BLACK TEA THEAFLAVINS. Ryan J. Geiser , Shelby E. Chastain, Melissa A. Moss 1782-Pos Board B102 International Travel Awardee SECONDARY STRUCTURE FLIPPING CONNECTED TO SALT-BRIDGE FORMA- TION CONVERTS TOXIC AMYLOID-Β 40 OLIGOMERS TO FIBRILS. Bappaditya Chandra , Debanjan Bhowmik, Barun Kumar Maity, Kaustubh R. Mote, De- babrata Dhara, Kallol Bera, Anirban Das, Ravindra Venkatramani, Sudipta Maiti, Perunthiruthy K. Madhu 1783-Pos Board B103 EFFECT OF A PARAMAGNETIC SPIN LABEL ON AMYLOID-BETA STRUCTUR- AL ENSEMBLE. Sukanya Sasmal , James Lincoff, Teresa Head-Gordon 1784-Pos Board B104 DISORDERED AMYLOID-ΒΕΤΑ PROTEIN PROBED BY SINGLE-MOLECULE FRET. Fanjie Meng , Jae-Yeol Kim, Hoi Sung Chung 1785-Pos Board B105 ALZHEIMER’S PROTECTIVE CROSS-INTERACTION BETWEEN WILD-TYPE AND A2T VARIANTS CHANGES AΒ 42 DIMER STRUCTURE. Payel Das , Anita Chacko, Georges Belfort 1786-Pos Board B106 SEQUENCE SPECIFIC QUANTITATIVE HYDROXYL RADICAL FOOTPRINTING REVEALS STRUCTURAL DETAILS OF AMYLOID-ß (1-42) PEPTIDE OLIGO- MERIZATION. Janna Kiselar, Andrew Nix, Anant Paravastu, Rosenberry L. Terrone, Alexandra L. Klinger 1787-Pos Board B107 MEMBRANE BILAYERS HELP TO STABILIZE AND ARE AFFECTED BY AΒ- FIBRILS ON THE SURFACE; A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY. Sachin R. Natesh, Karl F. Freed, Esmael J. Haddadian 1788-Pos Board B108 PROBING THE MECHANISM OF GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN-MEDIATED AMYLOID ASSEMBLY WITH A NON-AMYLOIDOGENIC PEPTIDE MOD- EL. Mathew Sebastiao , Isabelle Marcotte, Steve Bourgault 1789-Pos Board B109 PROBING THE BINDING OF AΒ PEPTIDES TO LIPID BILAYERS. Christopher Lockhart , Dmitri K. Klimov 1790-Pos Board B110 BETA-AMYLOID OLIGOMER FORMATION IN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS - A STUDY BY SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER. Jun Han, Erwen Mei, Mei-Ping Kung, Hank F. Kung, Jian-Min Yuan, Hai-Lung Dai 1791-Pos Board B111 STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMIC MODELING OF EARLY AΒ OLIGOMER FORMATION. Nicholas P. van der Munnik , Tao Wei, Melissa A. Moss, Mark J. Uline 1792-Pos Board B112 STRAIN SPECIFIC PROPAGATION OF AN AMYLOID BETA OLIGOMER IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE. Vijay Rangachari

1765-Pos Board B85 IMPROVED EPHA2 SAM: SHIP2 SAM DOMAIN ASSOCIATION BY INCREAS- ING THE SOLVATION OF THE PROTEINS IN MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMU- LATION. Zhenlu Li , Matthias Buck 1766-Pos Board B86 A MOLECULAR SIMULATION METHOD TO PREDICT THE SELF-ASSEMBLY OF HELIX BUNDLES IN BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES.  Jingjing Huang , Regis Pomes 1767-Pos Board B87 PH RESPONSIVE PEPTIDE SELF-ASSEMBLIES: A MECHANISM AS OLD AS VIRUSES. Maité Paternostre , Franck Artzner 1768-Pos Board B88 CHARACTERIZATION OF CHMP POLYMERS AT THE MESOSCALE. Maryam Alqabandi , Nicola De Franceschi, Nolwenn Miguet, Christophe Caillat, Stephanie Mangenot, Winfried Weissenhorn, Patricia Bassereau 1769-Pos Board B89 ALL TUBULINS ARE NOT THE SAME: REVERSIBLE DISSOCIATION OF AB- TUBULIN DIMERS DIFFER DEPENDING ON THE SOURCE OF TUBULIN.  Felipe Montecinos-Franjola , Sumit Chatuverdi, Peter Schuck, Dan L. Sackett 1770-Pos Board B90 STRUCTURE FUNCTION STUDIES OF A NOVEL HUMAN TSH BETA VARI- ANT. Mihaly Mezei , Ramkumarie Baliram, Rejwan M. Ali, Terry F. Davies, Board B91 HIJACKING HIS-TAGS TO MAKE FUNCTIONAL MULTI-PROTEIN COMPLEX- ES. Elizabeth R. Haglin , Ariane Briegel, Lynmarie K. Thompson 1772-Pos Board B92 THE TWO FACES OF PEPTIDE SELF-ASSEMBLY. MinJun Lee, Young-Beom Jo, Jeseong Yoon, Seokmin Shin 1773-Pos Board B93 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIES OF NON-ENVELOPED VIRUS CELL EN- TRY MECHANISMS. Shivangi Nangia, Allyn R. Brice, Eric R. May 1774-Pos Board B94 ARTIFICIAL PEPTIDE-BASED MEMBRANES AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH LIPID SYSTEMS. Karin Kornmueller, Bernhard Lehofer, Gerd Leitinger, Heinz Amenitsch, Ruth Prassl Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) Rauf Latif 1771-Pos 1775-Pos Board B95 EFFECT OF PEPTIDE CONJUGATES OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS TO THE AGGRE- GATION OF AMYLIN.  Jayson Vedad , Adam A. Profit, Ruel Z. B. Desamero 1776-Pos Board B96 AGGREGATION INDUCED CONFORMATION CHANGES DETERMINE AMY- LIN MEMBRANE AFFINITY. Barun K. Maity , Anoop Rawat, Bappaditya Chandra, Anirban Das, Sudipta Maiti 1777-Pos Board B97 ROLES OF SITE-SPECIFIC DEAMIDATION IN ISLET AMYLOID POLYPEPTIDE SELF-ASSEMBLY AND TOXICITY SITE-SPECIFIC DEAMIDATION IN ISLET AMYLOID POLYPEPTIDE SELF-ASSEMBLY AND CYTOTOXICITY. Phuong Trang Nguyen, Ximena Zottig, Steve Bourgault 1778-Pos Board B98 STRAIN-SPECIFIC PROPAGATION BY AN AMYLOID-BETA DODECAM- ER. Dexter N. Dean , Pradipta K. Das, Pratip Rana, Ryan P. Campbell, Preetam Ghosh, Sarah E. Morgan, Vijay Rangachari and Aggregates II (Boards B95–B121)

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