Cryo-EM reveals the steric zipper structure of a light chain-derived amyloid fibril

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 6200-6205

  Schmidt, Andreas ^a   Annamalai, Karthikeyan ^a   Schmidt, Matthias ^a   Grigorieff, Nikolaus ^b   Fändrich, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Frealix; Prion; Protein aggregation; Protein folding; Systemic amyloidosis

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84973176441     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1522282113     Document Type: Article

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