Structure of the cross-β spine of amyloid-like fibrils

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7043, 2005, Pages 773-778

  Nelson, Rebecca ^a   Sawaya, Michael R ^a   Balbirnie, Melinda ^a   Madsen, Anders Ø ^b,c   Riekel, Christian ^c   Grothe, Robert ^a   Eisenberg, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DISEASES; HYDROGEN BONDS; YEAST;

AMYLOID FIBRILS; PRIONS;

PROTEINS;

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUP35; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMIDE; AMYLOID; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SUP35 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CRYSTAL; FIBER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HYDROGEN BOND; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MAMMALIAN PRIONS;

AMIDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 20444440728     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03680     Document Type: Article

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