Journal of Molecular Biology
Volume 296, Issue 4, 3 March 2000, Pages 961-968
CommunicationNature disfavors sequences of alternating polar and non-polar amino acids: implications for amyloidogenesis1
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Acknowledgements
We thank Michael West, Laura Landweber and Tzachi Pilpel for comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by the Culpepper Foundation, the Biological Sciences Program of the ARO, the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, and NSF MRSEC (DMR98-09483).
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