Analysis of structural order in amyloid fibrils

Nanotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Knowles, Tuomas P J ^a,b   Smith, Jeffrey F ^a,b   Devlin, Glyn L ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a,b   Welland, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATIONS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); METABOLISM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

AMYLOID FIBRILS; PROTEIN AGGREGATES; SUPRAMOLECULAR ORDERING;

PROTEINS;

EID: 33846818885     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/18/4/044031     Document Type: Article

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