Methods for structural characterization of prefibrillar intermediates and amyloid fibrils

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2600-2609

  Langkilde, Annette Eva ^a   Vestergaard, Bente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Fibril; Small angle X ray scattering; Structure

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; TAU PROTEIN;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SHORT SURVEY; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 68549141378     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.05.040     Document Type: Short Survey

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