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2009

Bridging the gap: From protein misfolding to protein misfolding diseases , 22 June 2009
Leila M. Luheshi, Christopher M. Dobson
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2581-2586)
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Biosensor-based label-free assays of amyloid growth , 11 June 2009
Duncan A. White, Alexander K. Buell, Christopher M. Dobson, Mark E. Welland, Tuomas P.J. Knowles
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2587-2592)
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Small organic probes as amyloid specific ligands – Past and recent molecular scaffolds , 17 April 2009
K. Peter R. Nilsson
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2593-2599)
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Methods for structural characterization of prefibrillar intermediates and amyloid fibrils , 28 May 2009
Annette Eva Langkilde, Bente Vestergaard
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2600-2609)
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Structure–activity relationship of amyloid fibrils , 13 July 2009
Samir K. Maji, Lei Wang, Jason Greenwald, Roland Riek
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2610-2617)
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Switching in amyloid structure within individual fibrils: Implication for strain adaptation, species barrier and strain classification , 29 May 2009
Ilia V. Baskakov
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2618-2622)
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Glimpses of the molecular mechanisms of β2-microglobulin fibril formation in vitro: Aggregation on a complex energy landscape , 11 May 2009
Geoffrey W. Platt, Sheena E. Radford
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2623-2629)
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“Native-like aggregation” of the acylphosphatase from Sulfolobus solfataricus and its biological implications , 13 July 2009
Francesco Bemporad, Fabrizio Chiti
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2630-2638)
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The proteostasis boundary in misfolding diseases of membrane traffic , 13 July 2009
Darren M. Hutt, Evan T. Powers, William E. Balch
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2639-2646)
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The role of molecular chaperones in human misfolding diseases , 23 April 2009
Sarah A. Broadley, F. Ulrich Hartl
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2647-2653)
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The GroEL/GroES cis cavity as a passive anti-aggregation device , 03 July 2009
Arthur L. Horwich, Adrian C. Apetri, Wayne A. Fenton
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2654-2662)
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Animal models of human amyloidoses: Are transgenic mice worth the time and trouble? , 22 July 2009
Joel N. Buxbaum
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2663-2673)
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Cells and prions: A license to replicate , 15 June 2009
Mario Nuvolone, Adriano Aguzzi, Mathias Heikenwalder
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2674-2684)
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Serum amyloid A and protein AA: Molecular mechanisms of a transmissible amyloidosis , 23 April 2009
Gunilla T. Westermark, Per Westermark
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2685-2690)
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Physiological responses to protein aggregates: Fibrinolysis, coagulation and inflammation (new roles for old factors) , 15 June 2009
Martijn F.B.G. Gebbink, Barend Bouma, Coen Maas, Bonno N. Bouma
FEBS Letters
20 August 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 16, Pages 2691-2699)
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IQGAPs in cancer: A family of scaffold proteins underlying tumorigenesis , 11 May 2009
Colin D. White, Matthew D. Brown, David B. Sacks
FEBS Letters
18 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 12, Pages 1817-1824)
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Evolution of geminiviruses and their satellites , 02 June 2009
Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman, Claude M. Fauquet
FEBS Letters
18 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 12, Pages 1825-1832)
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A picture is worth a thousand words: Genomics to phenomics in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , 06 April 2009
Franco J. Vizeacoumar, Yolanda Chong, Charles Boone, Brenda J. Andrews
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1656-1661)
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From transcriptome analysis to immunogenomics: Current status and future direction , 20 April 2009
Osamu Ohara
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1662-1667)
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Next-generation sequencing approaches in genetic rodent model systems to study functional effects of human genetic variation , 20 April 2009
Victor Guryev, Edwin Cuppen
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1668-1673)
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New dimensions in the study of protein complexes using quantitative mass spectrometry , 17 April 2009
Silke Oeljeklaus, Helmut E. Meyer, Bettina Warscheid
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1674-1683)
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Protein complementation assays: Approaches for the in vivo analysis of protein interactions , 06 March 2009
Montse Morell, Salvador Ventura, Francesc X. Avilés
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1684-1691)
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The coiled coil-helix-coiled coil-helix proteins may be redox proteins , 02 April 2009
Lucia Banci, Ivano Bertini, Simone Ciofi-Baffoni, Kostas Tokatlidis
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1699-1702)
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Bioinformatics analysis of mass spectrometry-based proteomics data sets , 23 March 2009
Chanchal Kumar, Matthias Mann
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1703-1712)
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CpG islands – ‘A rough guide’ , 17 April 2009
Robert S. Illingworth, Adrian P. Bird
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1713-1720)
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When X-inactivation meets pluripotency: An intimate rendezvous , 25 March 2009
Pablo Navarro, Philip Avner
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1721-1727)
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Glycoproteomics: Past, present and future , 27 March 2009
Bérangère Tissot, Simon J. North, Alessio Ceroni, Poh-Choo Pang, Maria Panico, Floriana Rosati, Antonietta Capone, Stuart M. Haslam, Anne Dell, Howard R. Morris
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1728-1735)
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Venoms, venomics, antivenomics , 20 March 2009
Juan J. Calvete, Libia Sanz, Yamileth Angulo, Bruno Lomonte, José María Gutiérrez
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1736-1743)
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Current trends in high throughput proteomics in cyanobacteria , 02 April 2009
Saw Yen Ow, Phillip C. Wright
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1744-1752)
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Proteomic analyses of the response of cyanobacteria to different stress conditions , 06 April 2009
Ornella Castielli, Berta De la Cerda, José A. Navarro, Manuel Hervás, Miguel A. De la Rosa
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1753-1758)
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A network medicine approach to human disease , 06 March 2009
Andreas Zanzoni, Montserrat Soler-López, Patrick Aloy
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1759-1765)
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Functional genomics and proteomics approaches to study the ERBB network in cancer , 20 March 2009
Özgür Sahin, Stefan Wiemann
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1766-1771)
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Challenges in cancer research and multifaceted approaches for cancer biomarker quest , 25 March 2009
Jirina Martinkova, Suresh Jivan Gadher, Marian Hajduch, Hana Kovarova
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1772-1784)
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Profiling CD antigens on leukaemias with an antibody microarray , 17 March 2009
Nicole Barber, Swetlana Gez, Larissa Belov, Stephen P. Mulligan, Adrian Woolfson, Richard I. Christopherson
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1785-1791)
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Intercellular exchange of proteins: The immune cell habit of sharing , 16 March 2009
Oded Rechavi, Itamar Goldstein, Yoel Kloog
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1792-1799)
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Cardiac stem/progenitor cells, secreted proteins, and proteomics , 20 March 2009
Miroslava Stastna, M. Roselle Abraham, Jennifer E. Van Eyk
FEBS Letters
5 June 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 11, Pages 1800-1807)
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The Miro GTPases: At the heart of the mitochondrial transport machinery , 17 April 2009
Katarina Reis, Åsa Fransson, Pontus Aspenström
FEBS Letters
6 May 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 9, Pages 1391-1398)
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Homocysteine and lipids: S-Adenosyl methionine as a key intermediate , 23 March 2009
Rima Obeid, Wolfgang Herrmann
FEBS Letters
17 April 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 8, Pages 1215-1225)
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Why proteins evolve at different rates: The functional hypothesis versus the mistranslation-induced protein misfolding hypothesis , 02 March 2009
Donghyun Park, Sun Shim Choi
FEBS Letters
2 April 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 7, Pages 1053-1059)
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The courtship of proteins: Understanding the encounter complex , 09 March 2009
Marcellus Ubbink
FEBS Letters
2 April 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 7, Pages 1060-1066)
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Insight into “insoluble proteins” with pure water , 23 February 2009
Jianxing Song
FEBS Letters
18 March 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 6, Pages 953-959)
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The long and the short of it: RNA-directed chromatin asymmetry in mammalian X-chromosome inactivation , 11 February 2009
Chandrasekhar Kanduri, Joanne Whitehead, Faizaan Mohammad
FEBS Letters
4 March 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 5, Pages 857-864)
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Sphingolipids and membrane environments for caveolin , 21 January 2009
Sandro Sonnino, Alessandro Prinetti
FEBS Letters
18 February 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 4, Pages 597-606)
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Interplay between poxviruses and the cellular ubiquitin/ubiquitin-like pathways , 27 January 2009
Leiliang Zhang, Nancy Y. Villa, Grant McFadden
FEBS Letters
18 February 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 4, Pages 607-614)
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The mammalian nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway: To decay or not to decay! Which players make the decision? , 21 January 2009
Ana Luísa Silva, Luísa Romão
FEBS Letters
4 February 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 3, Pages 499-505)
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IL-1 family in breast cancer: Potential interplay with leptin and other adipocytokines , 25 December 2008
Stéphane Perrier, Florence Caldefie-Chézet, Marie-Paule Vasson
FEBS Letters
22 January 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 2, Pages 259-265)
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Breaking the VE-cadherin bonds , 05 December 2008
Julie Gavard
FEBS Letters
5 January 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 1, Pages 1-6)
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The intimate and mysterious relationship between proton channels and NADPH oxidase , 10 December 2008
Boris Musset, Vladimir V. Cherny, Deri Morgan, Thomas E. DeCoursey
FEBS Letters
5 January 2009 (Vol. 583, Issue 1, Pages 7-12)
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