Amyloid-like interactions within nucleoporin FG hydrogels

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

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6281-6285

  Ader, Christian ^a   Frey, Steffen ^b   Maas, Werner ^c   Schmidt, Hermann Broder ^b   Görlich, Dirk ^b   Baldus, Marc ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c BRUKER BIOSPIN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta sheet; Nuclear pore complex; Nup; Prion; Solid state NMR

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; GLUTAMINE; NUCLEOPORIN; PHENYLALANINE; PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHEMICAL BOND; GELATION; HYDROGEL; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR PORE; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; YEAST;

AMYLOID; HYDROGELS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 77950904085     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910163107     Document Type: Article

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