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However, experimental studies of the monomeric peptide conformations are limited due to its high aggregation propensity, and the early steps of the hIAPP association are not clearly characterized. In particular, the question of whether the aggregation-prone conformation is    \u03b1   -helical or    \u03b2   -strand-rich is still debated. In this study, combining extensive all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) and replica exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulations in explicit water, we shed some light on the differences between the amidated and non-amidated hIAPP conformational ensembles. Our study shows that, when compared to the amidated monomer, the non-amidation of hIAPP induces a significantly lower propensity to form    \u03b2   -strands, especially aggregation-prone    \u03b2   -hairpins. Since the fibrillization of the non-amidated hIAPP is significantly slower than that of the amidated peptide, this indicates that the early steps of the peptide oligomerization involve the association of    \u03b2   -hairpins or    \u03b2   -strands structures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms17111896","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,14]],"date-time":"2016-11-14T11:39:50Z","timestamp":1479123590000},"page":"1896","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Effect of Post-Translational Amidation on Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Conformational Ensemble: Implications for Its Aggregation Early Steps"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8667-082X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Linh","family":"Tran","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"BioCIS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sud, CNRS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, 92290 Ch\u00e2tenay-Malabry, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0847-2948","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"T\u00e2p","family":"Ha-Duong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"BioCIS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sud, CNRS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, 92290 Ch\u00e2tenay-Malabry, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7763","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.85.20.7763","article-title":"Amylin found in amyloid deposits in human type 2 diabetes mellitus may be a hormone that regulates glycogen metabolism in skeletal muscle","volume":"85","author":"Cooper","year":"1988","journal-title":"Proc. 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