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ReviewBiophysical reviews2013

Application and use of differential scanning calorimetry in studies of thermal fluctuation associated with amyloid fibril formation.

Kenji Sasahara, Yuji Goto

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Review in Biophysical reviews, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kenji SasaharaDivision of Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0017, Japan. sasahara@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
Yuji GotoInstitute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
Kobe University · JPOsaka University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils is a topic that has attracted great interest because the process is associated with the pathology of numerous human diseases. Despite considerable progress in the elucidation of the structure of amyloid fibrils and the kinetic mechanism of their formation, knowledge on the thermodynamic aspects underlying the formation and stability of amyloid fibrils is limited. In this review, we summarize recent calorimetric studies of amyloid fibril formation, with the goal of obtaining a better understanding of the causal factors that thermally induce proteins to aggregate into amyloid fibrils. Calorimetric data show that differential scanning calorimetry is a useful technique to study the causative factors that thermally trigger the conversion to the amyloid structure and highlight the physics related to the thermal fluctuation of proteins during this conversion.

Indexed as

AggregationAmyloid fibrilAmyloid nucleationCalorimetryHeat capacityThermal fluctuation

Identifiers

PMID28510108
PMCPMC5425703
OpenAlexW2091944818

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