Peptide conformation and supramolecular organization in amylin fibrils: Constraints from solid-state NMR

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 47, 2007, Pages 13505-13522

  Luca, Sorin ^a   Yau, Wai Ming ^a   Leapman, Richard ^b   Tycko, Robert ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PEPTIDES; SOLID STATE REACTIONS; STARCH; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

AMYLIN FIBRILS; DIABETES PATIENTS; PEPTIDE CONFORMATIONS; SUPRAMOLECULAR ORGANIZATION;

FIBERS;

AMYLIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 36749033116     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701427q     Document Type: Article

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