Amyloid fibrillation kinetics: Insight from atomistic nucleation theory

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 275-285

  Cabriolu, Raffaela ^a   Auer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amyloid fibrils; homogeneous nucleation; nucleation rate; nucleus size; protein aggregation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; NUCLEAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 79960698583     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.05.032     Document Type: Article

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