The Luminescent Oligothiophene p-FTAA Converts Toxic A beta(1-42) Species into Nontoxic Amyloid Fibers with Altered Properties
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Livia Civitelli, Linnea Sandin, Erin Nelson, Sikander Iqbal Khattak, Ann-Christin Brorsson and Katarina Kågedal, The Luminescent Oligothiophene p-FTAA Converts Toxic A beta(142) Species into Nontoxic Amyloid Fibers with Altered Properties, 2016, Journal of Biological Chemistry, (291), 17, 9233-9243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.696229 Copyright: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology http://www.asbmb.org/
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