Cooperativities Among Short Amyloid Stretches Within Long Amyloidogenic Sequence Segment
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Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, P. R. China CAS-MPG Partner Institute of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, P. R. China Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, P.R. China Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, P. R. China Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai 200235, China 6 Basic Science Program, SAIC – Frederick, Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, NCI-Fredeick, NIH, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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