Role of intermolecular forces in defining material properties of protein nanofibrils

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5858, 2007, Pages 1900-1903

  Knowles, Tuomas P ^a,b   Fitzpatrick, Anthony W ^b   Meehan, Sarah ^a   Mott, Helen R ^a   Vendruscolo, Michele ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Welland, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; BIOMATERIAL; NANOFIBER; NANOMATERIAL; POLYPEPTIDE;

CHEMICAL BONDING; FORCE; HYDROGEN; PROTEIN; RIGIDITY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FORCE; HYDROGEN BOND; MATERIALS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; INSULIN; LACTALBUMIN; LACTOGLOBULINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURAMIDASE; NANOSTRUCTURES; PEPTIDES; PREALBUMIN; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 37549063068     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150057     Document Type: Article

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