A helical structural nucleus is the primary elongating unit of insulin amyloid fibrils

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1089-1097

  Vestergaard, Bente ^a   Groenning, Minna ^a,b   Roessle, Manfred ^c   Kastrup, Jette S ^a   Van De Weert, Marco ^a   Flink, James M ^b   Frokjaer, Sven ^a   Gajhede, Michael ^a   Svergun, Dmitri I ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; INSULIN; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; FIBER; GROWTH RATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMYLOID; INSULIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 34249028643     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050134     Document Type: Article

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