FTIR reveals structural differences between native β-sheet proteins and amyloid fibrils

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3314-3321

  Zandomeneghi, Giorgia ^a   Krebs, Mark R H ^b   McCammon, Margaret G ^c   Fändrich, Marcus ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Amyloid; Conformational disease; Infrared spectroscopy; Prions; Protein structure folding

Indexed keywords

ACYLPHOSPHATASE; AMYLIN; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AVIDIN; AZURIN; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; CALCITONIN; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCAGON; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INSULIN; LYSOZYME; MYOGLOBIN; NUCLEASE; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PEPTIDE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PREALBUMIN; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ADA2H; PROTEIN CSP 1; RIBONUCLEASE; SERUM AMYLOID P; TENDAMISTAT; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMYLOID; HUMANS; PREALBUMIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 9344243513     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.041024904     Document Type: Article

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