Assembling amyloid fibrils from designed structures containing a significant amyloid β-peptide fragment

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 366, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 343-351

  Tjernberg, Lars O ^a   Tjernberg, Agneta ^a   Bark, Niklas ^a   Shi, Yuan ^a   Ruzsicska, Bela P ^a   Bu, Zimei ^a   Thyberg, Johan ^a   Callaway, David J E ^a  

^a Northwell Health   (United States)

Author keywords

sheet; Alzheimer's disease; Electron microscopy; Molecular modelling; Pair correlation

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CONFORMATIONS; DIMERS; DISEASES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

DYSTROPHIC NEURITES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; DIMER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBER; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037103821     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20020229     Document Type: Article

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