Co-incorporation of Aβ40 and Aβ42 to form mixed pre-fibrillar aggregates

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 654-663

  Frost, David ^a   Gorman, Paul M ^a   Yip, Christopher M ^b   Chakrabartty, Avijit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid; Fibril; Fluorescence; Peptide

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; FLUORESCENT DYE; ISOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INCUBATION TIME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0037294045     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03415.x     Document Type: Article

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