The protofilament substructure of amyloid fibrils

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 300, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1033-1039

  Serpell, Louise C ^a   Sunde, Margaret ^b   Benson, Merrill D ^c   Tennent, Glenys A ^d   Pepys, Mark B ^d   Fraser, Paul E ^e  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Electron microscopy; Fibrils; Image analysis; Protofilaments

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID A PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; LYSOZYME; PREALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034725535     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3908     Document Type: Article

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