Peptide models for inherited neurodegenerative disorders: Conformation and aggregation properties of long polyglutamine peptides with and without interruptions

FEBS Letters

Volumn 456, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 181-185

  Sharma, Deepak ^a   Sharma, Sunita ^a   Pasha, Santosh ^a   Brahmachari, Samir K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Sheet; Aggregation; Circular dichroism; Insolubility; Neurodegenerative disease; Polyglutamine; SCA1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0032776447     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(99)00933-3     Document Type: Article

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