Sulfates dramatically stabilize a salt-dependent type of glucagon fibrils

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4181-4194

  Pedersen, Jesper Søndergaard ^a   Flink, James M ^b   Dikov, Dantcho ^b   Otzen, Daniel Erik ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; ANION; CATION; CHLORIDE; GLUCAGON; INORGANIC SALT; OLIGOMER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFATE;

ALKALINITY; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FIBER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MELTING POINT; PH; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 33744937549     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.070912     Document Type: Article

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