Molecular structure of amyloid fibrils controls the relationship between fibrillar size and toxicity.

According to the prevailing view, soluble oligomers or small fibrillar fragments are considered to be the most toxic species in prion diseases. To test this hypothesis, two conformationally different amyloid states were produced from the same highly pure recombinant full-length prion protein (rPrP)....

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Main Authors: Young Jin Lee, Regina Savtchenko, Valeriy G Ostapchenko, Natallia Makarava, Ilia V Baskakov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3098877?pdf=render