Explaining the length threshold of polyglutamine aggregation

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  De Los Rios, Paolo ^a   Hafner, Marc ^a   Pastore, Annalisa ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PROCESS; DISSOCIATION RATES; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; IN-VIVO; MINIMAL LENGTHS; MOLECULAR ORIGINS; POLYGLUTAMINE; SPECIAL STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

OLIGOMERS;

DISSOCIATION;

PEPTIDE; POLYGLUTAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

KINETICS; PEPTIDES; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84861398901     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/24/244105     Document Type: Article

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