Photo-induced cross-linking of unmodified proteins (PICUP) applied to amyloidogenic peptides

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Rahimi, Farid ^a   Maiti, Panchanan ^a   Bitan, Gal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Amyloid protein; Cross linking; Issue 23; Oligomer; Picup; Protein assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055101575     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/1071     Document Type: Article

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