Nucleated polymerisation in the presence of pre-formed seed filaments

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5844-5852

  Cohen, Samuel I A ^a   Vendruscolo, Michele ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Knowles, Tuomas P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Amyloid; Protein

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MONOMER; POLYMER; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GROWTH RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYOFILAMENT; NUCLEATED POLYMERISATION; POLYMERIZATION; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS;

ALGORITHMS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS;

EID: 80053176846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms12095844     Document Type: Article

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