Functional and structural differences between the prion protein from two alleles prnpa and prnpb of mouse

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2452-2459

  Brown, David R ^c   Iordanova, Ilina K ^d   Wong, Boon Seng ^a,b   Vénien Bryan, Catherine ^d   Hafiz, Farida ^d   Glasssmith, Leslie L ^d   Sy, Man Sun ^b   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^b   Jones, Ian M ^a   Clive, Christine ^d   Haswell, Stephen J ^d  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Copper; Oxidative stress; Prion; Proteinase K; Re folding

Indexed keywords

COPPER; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; AMYLOID; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COPPER; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0001239957     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01275.x     Document Type: Article

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