Amyloid-like fibrils of ribonuclease a with three-dimensional domain-swapped and native-like structure

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7056, 2005, Pages 266-269

  Sambashivan, Shilpa ^a   Liu, Yanshun ^a,b   Sawaya, Michael R ^a   Gingery, Mari ^a   Eisenberg, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY; PROTEINS;

AMYLOIDS; ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY; FIBRILLAR; FUNCTIONAL MOLECULAR UNITS; NATIVE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

RNA;

AMYLOID; RIBONUCLEASE A; PANCREATIC RIBONUCLEASE;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MODEL; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; AMYLOIDOSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; FREEZE DRYING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMYLOIDOSIS; DIMERIZATION; FREEZE DRYING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 24644510813     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03916     Document Type: Article

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