| Literature DB >> 19415709 |
Alexander K Buell1, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Neil R Birkett, Christopher A Waudby, Michele Vendruscolo, Xavier Salvatella, Mark E Welland, Christopher M Dobson, Tuomas P J Knowles.
Abstract
Proteins with a high propensity to aggregate can be largely prevented from doing so with surprisingly small changes to their primary structure. By using a combination of rational design and quantitative measurements of aggregation rates, we show that adding a single charge in specific "gatekeeper" regions is sufficient to change the timescale for amyloid fibril growth from minutes to weeks, thereby dramatically reducing the efficiency of this process.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19415709 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200900144
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chembiochem ISSN: 1439-4227 Impact factor: 3.164