Prion protein structure and scrapie replication: Theoretical, spectroscopic, and genetic investigations

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1996, Pages 495-509

  Bamborough, P ^a   Wille, H ^b   Telling, G C ^b   Yehiely, F ^b   Prusiner, S B ^b   Cohen, F E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

SCRAPIE PRION;

ALANINE; GLYCINE; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PRION PROTEIN;

EID: 0030432831     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1996.061.01.050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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