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The protofilament substructure of amyloid fibrils.
Journal of molecular biology - 28 Jul 2000
Serpell L C, Sunde M, Benson M D, Tennent G A, Pepys M B, Fraser P E
Abstract excerpt
Tissue deposition of normally soluble proteins, or their fragments, as insoluble amyloid fibrils causes the usually fatal, acquired and hereditary systemic amyloidoses and is associated with the pathology of Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes and the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Although each type of amyloidosis is characterised by a specific amyloid fibril protein, the deposits share...
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