Molecular mechanisms of protein aggregation from global fitting of kinetic models

Nature Protocols

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 252-272

  Meisl, Georg ^a   Kirkegaard, Julius B ^a   Arosio, Paolo ^a   Michaels, Thomas C T ^a   Vendruscolo, Michele ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Linse, Sara ^b   Knowles, Tuomas P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; THIOFLAVINE; PROTEIN AGGREGATE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; GLOBAL FITTING; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE KINETIC ASSAY; BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEINOSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; KINETICS; PROTEIN AGGREGATES; PROTEIN AGGREGATION, PATHOLOGICAL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84956497412     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2016.010     Document Type: Article

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