Unlocked Concanavalin A Forms Amyloid-like Fibrils from Coagulation of Long-lived "Crinkled" Intermediates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Vetri, Valeria ^a   Leone, Maurizio ^a   Morozova Roche, Ludmilla A ^b   Vestergaard, Bente ^c   Foderà, Vito ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; CONCANAVALIN A;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PH; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMYLOID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCANAVALIN A; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84880492873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068912     Document Type: Article

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