The role of the disulfide bond in amyloid-like fibrillogenesis in a model peptide system

The role of the disulfide bond in amyloid-like fibrillogenesis in a model peptide system Apurba Kumar Das,(a) Michael G. B. Drew,(b) Debasish Haldar(a) and Arindam Banerjee*(a) (a)Department of Biological Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India. E-mail: bcab@mahendra.iacs.res.in; Fax: +91-33-2473-2805 b School of Chemistry, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, UK RG6 6AD Received 28th June 2005, Accepted 20th July 2005 First published as an Advance Article on the web 11th August 2005