Amyloids protect the silkmoth oocyte and embryo

FEBS Letters

Volumn 479, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 141-145

  Iconomidou, Vassiliki A ^a   Vriend, Gert ^b   Hamodrakas, Stavros J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyloid fibril; Electron microscopy; Modeling; Silkmoth chorion protein; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SILKWORM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CHORION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0034683126     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(00)01888-3     Document Type: Article

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