Propagation of Fibrillar Structural Forms in Proteins Stopped by Naturally Occurring Short Polypeptide Chain Fragments

• मुख्य लेखकों: Irena Roterman (लेखक), Mateusz Banach (लेखक), Leszek Konieczny (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: MDPI AG, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Amyloids characterized by unbounded growth of fibrillar structures cause many pathological processes. Such unbounded propagation is due to the presence of a propagating hydrophobicity field around the fibril's main axis, preventing its closure (unlike in globular proteins). Interestingly, simil...