Antiparallel β-sheet: a signature structure of the oligomeric amyloid β-peptide
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*Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Laboratory for Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 206/2, Blvd. du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, †Center for the Prevention of Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609, U.S.A., ‡Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine, 3438 McGaugh Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A., §Unité de Chimie des Interfaces, Université Catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 2/18, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and ‖Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840, U.S.A.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009