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SUBMITTER: Yoshimura Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3437889 | biostudies-other | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Yoshimura Yuichi Y Lin Yuxi Y Yagi Hisashi H Lee Young-Ho YH Kitayama Hiroki H Sakurai Kazumasa K So Masatomo M Ogi Hirotsugu H Naiki Hironobu H Goto Yuji Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120820 36
Amyloid fibrils and amorphous aggregates are two types of aberrant aggregates associated with protein misfolding diseases. Although they differ in morphology, the two forms are often treated indiscriminately. β(2)-microglobulin (β2m), a protein responsible for dialysis-related amyloidosis, forms amyloid fibrils or amorphous aggregates depending on the NaCl concentration at pH 2.5. We compared the kinetics of their formation, which was monitored by measuring thioflavin T fluorescence, light scatt ...[more]