Amyloidogenic properties of transthyretin-like protein (TLP) from Escherichia coli

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 2893-2898

  Santos, Sofia Duque ^a   Costa, Rita ^a   Teixeira, Pedro Filipe ^a   Gottesman, Max ^c   Cardoso, Isabel ^a   Saraiva, Maria João ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Cell toxicity; Escherichia coli; Evolution; Protein aggregation; Transthyretin; Transthyretin related protein family

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE;

AMYLOID; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; NEUROBLASTOMA; PREALBUMIN; THYROXINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 48749127539     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.07.025     Document Type: Article

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