The protofilament structure of insulin amyloid fibrils.
Under solution conditions where the native state is destabilized, the largely helical polypeptide hormone insulin readily aggregates to form amyloid fibrils with a characteristic cross-beta structure. However, there is a lack of information relating the 4.8 A beta-strand repeat to the higher order a...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2002
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