Characterization of fiber-forming peptides and proteins by means of atomic force microscopy

Current Protein and Peptide Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 232-257

  Creasey, Rhiannon G ^a   Gibson, Christopher T ^a   Voelcker, Nicolas H ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibody recognition imaging; Atomic force microscopy; Peptide fibers; Protein aggregation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BETA SHEET; CALIBRATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FIBER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HYDROGEL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; AMYLOID; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZED PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEINS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84862584933     PISSN: 13892037     EISSN: 18755550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920312800785058     Document Type: Article

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