Breaking the amyloidogenicity code: Methods to predict amyloids from amino acid sequence

FEBS Letters

Volumn 587, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1089-1095

  Ahmed, Abdullah B ^a   Kajava, Andrey V ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Amyloid fibril; Bioinformatics; Neurodegenerative disease; Protein misfolding

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOIDOSIS; BETA SHEET; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84876041730     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.12.006     Document Type: Review

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