Atomic structures of amyloid cross-β spines reveal varied steric zippers

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7143, 2007, Pages 453-457

  Sawaya, Michael R ^a   Sambashivan, Shilpa ^a   Nelson, Rebecca ^a   Ivanova, Magdalena I ^a   Sievers, Stuart A ^a   Apostol, Marcin I ^a   Thompson, Michael J ^a   Balbirnie, Melinda ^a   Wiltzius, Jed J W ^a   McFarlane, Heather T ^a   Madsen, Anders Ø ^b,c   Riekel, Christian ^c   Eisenberg, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLIN; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; INSULIN; LYSOZYME; MYOGLOBIN; PRION PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

DISEASE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; YEAST;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATOM; BETA SHEET; CRYSTAL; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; STEREOCHEMISTRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 34249290108     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05695     Document Type: Article

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