Exploring the Mechanism of Formation of Native-like and Precursor Amyloid Oligomers for the Native Acylphosphatase from Sulfolobus solfataricus

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 993-1001

  Plakoutsi, Georgia ^a   Bemporad, Francesco ^a   Monti, Maria ^b   Pagnozzi, Daniela ^b   Pucci, Piero ^b,c   Chiti, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^c Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Biochimica   (Italy)

Author keywords

HUMDISEASE; PROTEINS

Indexed keywords

ACYLPHOSPHATASE; AMYLOID; OLIGOMER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN VARIANT; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ACID ANHYDRIDE HYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 33744905543     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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