Protein misfolded oligomers: Experimental approaches, mechanism of formation, and structure-toxicity relationships

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 315-327

  Bemporad, Francesco ^a   Chiti, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN MISFOLDED OLIGOMER; THIOFLAVINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOTOXICITY; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84858978818     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2012.02.003     Document Type: Review

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