Molecular structural basis for polymorphism in Alzheimer's β-amyloid fibrils

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

Volumn 105, Issue 47, 2008, Pages 18349-18354

  Paravastu, Anant K ^a,c   Leapman, Richard D ^b   Yau, Wai Ming ^a   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)

^c FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid structure; Electron microscopy; Protein misfolding; Solid state NMR

Indexed keywords

AMYLIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40];

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLID STATE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 57449091884     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806270105     Document Type: Article

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