Amyloid-associated nucleic acid hybridisation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Braun, Sebastian ^a   Humphreys, Christine ^a   Fraser, Elizabeth ^a   Brancale, Andrea ^b   Bochtler, Matthias ^a,b,c   Dale, Trevor C ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APP PROTEIN, HUMAN; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 79956266642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019125     Document Type: Article

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