Stabilization of neurotoxic Alzheimer amyloid-β oligomers by protein engineering
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Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom; Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences/Geriatrics, Uppsala University, SE-751 25 Uppsala, Sweden; and Department of Molecular Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala Biomedical Center, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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