Protease‐activated alpha‐2‐macroglobulin can inhibit amyloid formation via two distinct mechanisms
Open Access
- 23 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 587 (5), 398-403
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2013.01.020
Abstract
Aβ1–42 and Aβ1–42 bind by fluorescence technology (View interaction) I59T lysozyme and I59T lysozyme bind by light scattering (View interaction) I59T lysozyme and I59T lysozyme bind by fluorescence technology (View interaction)Alpha‐lactalbumin and Alpha‐lactalbumin bind by fluorescence technology (View interaction) I59T lysozyme and I59T lysozyme bind by electron microscopy (View interaction) Aβ1–42 and Aβ1–42 bind by electron microscopy (View interaction)Keywords
Funding Information
- BBSRC (BB/E019927/1)
- Wellcome Trust Program Grant
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