Atomic structures of amyloid cross-β spines reveal varied steric zippers

Sawaya, Michael R., Sambashivan, Shilpa, Nelson, Rebecca, Ivanova, Magdalena I., Sievers, Stuart A., Apostol, Marcin I., Thompson, Michael J., Balbirnie, Melinda, Wiltzius, Jed J. W., McFarlane, Heather T., Madsen, Anders Ø., Riekel, Christian, Eisenberg, David·2007·Nature

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Authors: Sawaya, M. R., Sambashivan, S., Nelson, R., Ivanova, M. I., Sievers, S. A., Apostol, M. I., Thompson, M. J., Balbirnie, M., Wiltzius, J. J. W., McFarlane, H. T., Madsen, A. Ø., Riekel, C., & Eisenberg, D.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2007-04-29
Volume: 447
Issue: 7143
Pages: 453-457
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature05695
OpenAlex: W2117537971
Cited by: 2,271
References: 0
FWCI: 49.21
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed

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