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Towards an understanding of amyloidogenesis

Nature Structural Biology volume 9, pages 323–325 (2002)Cite this article

Two studies in this issue provide further insight into the structural continuum associated with the process of amyloidosis.

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Figure 1: Schematic depiction of the structural continuum characterizing the process of amyloid fibril formation from a full length initially folded protein like β2m.

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