Ultrastructural organization of amyloid fibrils by atomic force microscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3282-3293

  Chamberlain, Aaron K ^a   MacPhee, Cait E ^a   Zurdo, Jesús ^a   Morozova Roche, Ludmilla A ^a   Hill, H Allen O ^b   Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Davis, Jason J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; LYSOZYME; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PREALBUMIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THIN FILAMENT;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0033637078     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76560-X     Document Type: Article

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