Two-step nucleation of amyloid fibrils: Omnipresent or not?

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 422, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 723-730

  Auer, Stefan ^a   Ricchiuto, Piero ^a   Kashchiev, Dimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

amyloid fibrils; homogeneous nucleation; nucleation rate; protein aggregation; two step nucleation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO STEP NUCLEATION;

EID: 84865694928     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.06.022     Document Type: Article

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