Review Article

Mechanistic Contributions of Biological Cofactors in Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Amyloidogenesis

Figure 1

(a) Comparison of amino acid sequences of IAPP from different species. Residues that differ to those of human are indicated in red bold whereas the human 20–29 amyloidogenic segment is represented in bold blue. (b) Schematic ribbon representation of sodium dodecyl sulfate micelle-bound IAPP secondary structure (PDB code: 2KB8).
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