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Charge and charge-pair mutations alter the rate of assembly and structural properties of apolipoprotein C-II amyloid fibrils.
Biochemistry - 17 Feb 2015
Mao Yu, Teoh Chai Lean, Yang Shuo, Zlatic Courtney O, Rosenes Zachary K, Gooley Paul R, Howlett Geoffrey J, Griffin Michael D W
Abstract excerpt
The misfolding, aggregation, and accumulation of proteins as amyloid fibrils is a defining characteristic of several debilitating diseases. Human apolipoprotein C-II (apoC-II) amyloid fibrils are representative of the fibrils formed by a number of plasma apolipoproteins implicated in amyloid-related disease. Previous structural analyses identified a buried charge pair between residues K30 and D69 within apoC-II...
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