Insights on the structure of amyloid fibrils from site-directed mutagenesis

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1519-1525

  Do Amaral Corrêa, Daniel Henrique ^a   Ramos, Carlos Henrique Inácio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia em Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amyloid fibrils; Apomyoglobin; Intermediate; Protein folding; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; APOMYOGLOBIN; APOPROTEIN; MYOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPERM WHALE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; APOPROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPERM WHALE;

EID: 73449127624     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986609789839223     Document Type: Article

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