Structure-neurotoxicity relationships of amyloid β-protein oligomers

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

Volumn 106, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 14745-14750

  Ono, Kenjiro ^a,b   Condron, Margaret M ^a   Teplow, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; THIOFLAVINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIMERIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYDRO-LYASES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROTOXINS; PC12 CELLS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RATS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 70349295278     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905127106     Document Type: Article

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