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- Ganowiak, Katarzyna, et al.
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Fibrils from Synthetic Amyloid-Related Peptides Enhance Development of Experimental AA-Amyloidosis in Mice
- 1994
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In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-291X .- 1090-2104. ; 199:1, s. 306-312
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Amyloid enhancing factor is an incompletely characterized activity of extracts from many amyloid-containing tissues and which greatly shortens the preamyloidotic phase during experimental induction of AA-amyloidosis. In this communication we show that amyloid-like fibrils made in vitro from synthetic peptides, corresponding to segments of amyloid fibril proteins, have amyloid enhancing factor-like activity. Thus, there is a possibility that amyloid enhancing factor activity depends on small fibrils serving as nucleation centers for fibril elongation.
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