Transthyretin fibrillogenesis entails the assembly of monomers: A molecular model for in vitro assembled transthyretin amyloid-like fibrils

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 317, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 683-695

  Cardoso, I ^a,b   Goldsbury, C S ^c   Muller S A ^c   Olivieri, V ^c   Wirtz, S ^c   Damas, A M ^a,b   Aebi, U ^c   Saraiva, M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AFM, atomic force microscopy; Amyloid fibrils; STEM, scanning transmission electron microscopy; TEM, transmission electron microscopy; TTR, transthyretin

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; MONOMER; PREALBUMIN;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WILD TYPE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0036295080     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2002.5441     Document Type: Article

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