Observation of spatial propagation of amyloid assembly from single nuclei

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

Volumn 108, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 14746-14751

  Knowles, Tuomas P J ^a,b   White, Duncan A ^b   Abate, Adam R ^a,c   Agresti, Jeremy J ^a   Cohen, Samuel I A ^b   Sperling, Ralph A ^a   De Genst, Erwin J ^b   Dobson, Christopher M ^b   Weitz, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Filamentous growth; Insulin; Microfluidics; Protein misfolding; Reaction front

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; INSULIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GELATION; MICRODROPLET ASSAY; MICROFLUIDICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; QUALITY CONTROL; SPATIAL PROPAGATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; WAVEFORM;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 80052607718     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105555108     Document Type: Article

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