Rapid acquisition of β-sheet structure in the prion protein prior to multimer formation

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1307-1317

  Post, Karin ^a   Pitschke, Martin ^a   Schäfer, Oliver ^a   Wille, Holger ^b   Appel, Thomas R ^a   Kirsch, Dieter ^a   Mehlhorn, Ingrid ^b   Serban, Hana ^b   Prusiner, Stanley B ^b   Riesner, Detlev ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Kinetics; Multimerization; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; POLYMER; PRION PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 0031789527     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.11.1307     Document Type: Article

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