Propensity to form amyloid fibrils is encoded as excitations in the free energy landscape of monomeric proteins.

@article{Zhuravlev2014PropensityTF,
  title={Propensity to form amyloid fibrils is encoded as excitations in the free energy landscape of monomeric proteins.},
  author={Pavel I Zhuravlev and Govardhan Reddy and John E. Straub and D. Thirumalai},
  journal={Journal of molecular biology},
  year={2014},
  volume={426 14},
  pages={
          2653-66
        }
}
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