Critical nucleus size for disease-related polyglutamine aggregation is repeat-length dependent

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 328-336

  Kar, Karunakar ^a   Jayaraman, Murali ^a   Sahoo, Bankanidhi ^a   Kodali, Ravindra ^a   Wetzel, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CAG REPEAT; CELL NUCLEUS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION;

HUMANS; KINETICS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 79952360891     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1992     Document Type: Article

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