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ReviewFEBS letters2009

Glimpses of the molecular mechanisms of beta2-microglobulin fibril formation in vitro: aggregation on a complex energy landscape.

Geoffrey W Platt, Sheena E Radford

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Review in FEBS letters, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Plant Hormone Cytokinin as Aggregation Modulator of Gelsolin Amyloidosis.Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society · 2025
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  7. Extracellular matrix components modulate different stages in βThe Journal of biological chemistry · 2019
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  10. Stepwise unfolding of human βEuropean biophysics journal : EBJ · 2017
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  16. Conformer-specific characterization of nonnative protein states using hydrogen exchange and top-down mass spectrometry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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  18. The role of amyloidogenic protein oligomerization in neurodegenerative disease.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Geoffrey W PlattAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Sheena E Radford
Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 062164Wellcome Trust 075675
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beta(2)-microglobulin (beta(2)m) is a 99-residue protein that aggregates to form amyloid fibrils in dialysis-related amyloidosis. The protein provides a powerful model for exploration of the structural molecular mechanisms of fibril formation from a full-length protein in vitro. Fibrils have been assembled from beta(2)m under both low pH conditions, where the precursor is disordered, and at neutral pH where the protein is initially natively folded. Here we discuss the roles of sequence and structure in amyloid formation, the current understanding of the structural mechanisms of the early stages of aggregation of beta(2)m at both low and neutral pH, and the common and distinct features of these assembly pathways.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAmyloidbeta 2-MicroglobulinEntropyHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationProtein ConformationAmyloidbeta 2-Microglobulin

Identifiers

PMID19433089
PMCPMC2734061
OpenAlexW2055055811

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