Small heat shock proteins inhibit in vitro Aβ1–42 amyloidogenesis
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- 13 October 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 416 (1) , 117-121
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(97)01180-0
Abstract
We demonstrate that small heat shock proteins (sHsp) inhibit in vitro amyloid formation by the Alzheimer's Aβ1–42 polypeptide as detected by a thioflavine T fluorescence assay and electron microscopy...Keywords
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