Chemical dissection and reassembly of amyloid fibrils formed by a peptide fragment of transthyretin

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 297, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1203-1215

  MacPhee, Cait E ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyloid structure; Protein misfolding; Transthyretin; sheet, amyloid assembly

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PREALBUMIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; FIBER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034646573     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3600     Document Type: Article

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