Diagnostics for Amyloid Fibril Formation: Where to Begin?

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 752, Issue , 2011, Pages 121-136

  Hatters, Danny M ^a   Griffin, Michael D W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aggregation; Amyloid; Birefringence; Congo red; Fibril; Method; Procedures; Protein misfolding; Protocol; Thioflavin T

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; CONGO RED; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIOFLAVINE;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMISTRY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMYLOID; BIREFRINGENCE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CONGO RED; KINETICS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIAZOLES;

EID: 79960999902     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-223-0_8     Document Type: Chapter

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