Paired β-sheet structure of an Aβ(1-40) amyloid fibril revealed by electron microscopy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7462-7466

  Sachse, Carsten ^a,b,c   Fändrich, Marcus ^b,c   Grigorieff, Nikolaus ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid ; Electron cryomicroscopy; Neurodegeneration; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 44949250850     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0712290105     Document Type: Article

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