Simultaneous Measurement of Amyloid Fibril Formation by Dynamic Light Scattering and Fluorescence Reveals Complex Aggregation Kinetics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Streets, Aaron M ^a,d   Sourigues, Yannick ^b   Kopito, Ron R ^a   Melki, Ronald ^b   Quake, Stephen R ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; POLYGLUTAMINE; THIOFLAVINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; FLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; KINETICS; LIGHT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84872568036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054541     Document Type: Article

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