The rate of polyQ-mediated aggregation is dramatically affected by the number and location of surrounding domains

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 413, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 879-887

  Robertson, Amy L ^a   Bate, Mark A ^a   Buckle, Ashley M ^a   Bottomley, Stephen P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

conformational disease; fibrils; misfolding; polyglutamine; protein aggregation

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMINE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80054855376     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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