Macromolecular Crowding as a Suppressor of Human IAPP Fibril Formation and Cytotoxicity

The biological cell is known to exhibit a highly crowded milieu, which significantly influences protein aggregation and association processes. As several cell degenerative diseases are related to the self-association and fibrillation of amyloidogenic peptides, understanding of the impact of macromol...

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Main Authors: Seeliger, Janine, Werkmüller, Alexander, Winter, Roland
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726762/