Accelerated in vitro fibril formation by a mutant α-synuclein linked to early-onset Parkinson disease

Nature Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1318-1320

  Conway, Kelly A ^a   Harper, James D ^a   Lansbury, Peter T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL INCLUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE OF ONSET; ALANINE; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMANS; LEWY BODIES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNUCLEINS; THREONINE;

EID: 0031787871     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3311     Document Type: Article

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