The behaviour of polyamino acids reveals an inverse side chain effect in amyloid structure formation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 5682-5690

  Fändrich, Marcus ^a,b   Dobson, Christopher M ^b,c  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Amyloid fibril; Inverse side chain effect; Polyamino acid; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; POLYAMINOACID; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; AMYLOID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 0036845354     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf573     Document Type: Article

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