Scrapie prions: A three-dimensional model of an infectious fragment

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-19

  Huang, Ziwei ^a,b,c   Prusiner, Stanley B ^b   Cohen, Fred E ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular modeling; Neurodegenerative disease; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PRION DISEASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PRPC PROTEINS; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 0030342679     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00007-7     Document Type: Article

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