The importance of sequence diversity in the aggregation and evolution of proteins

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 878-881

  Wright, Caroline F ^a   Teichmann, Sarah A ^b   Clarke, Jane ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; IMMUNOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; SEQUENCE DIVERSITY;

PROTEINS;

AMYLOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 28644437048     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04195     Document Type: Article

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