Conformational change in prion protein: Testing a novel method of secondary structure prediction

Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 565-588

  Yan, Johnson F ^a   Yan, Benjamin C ^a,b  

^a Yan Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; GELATION; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEINS;

CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; PEPTIDES; PRION PROTEIN;

CONFORMATIONS;

EID: 0032206652     PISSN: 03602559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03602559808001380     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. G. Johnson, Science Times, The New York Times, July 29, 1997.
2. C. B. Anfinsen, Science, 181, 223 (1973).
3. J. F. Yan et al., J. Theoret. Biol., 151, 334 (1991).
4. J. F. Yan, Polym.-Plast. Technol. Eng., 35, 697 (1996).
5. J. F. Yan, U.S. Patent (issue pending) (1998).
6. B. C. Yan and J. F. Yan, unpublished data.
7. G. C. Telling et al., Science, 274, 2079 (1996).
8. S. B. Prusiner, Science, 252, 1515 (1991).
9. N. Touchette, J. NIH Res., 5, 34 (1993).
10. P. J. Flory, Principles of Polymer Chemistry, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1953, Chap. IX.
11. J. F. Yan, Macromolecules, 24, 1438 (1981).
12. J. F. Yan, Science, 215, 1390 (1982).
13. M.-J. Gething, Nature, 388, 329 (1997).
14. P. Y. Chou and G. D. Fasman, Annu. Rev. Biochem., 47, 251 (1978).
15. Z. Huang et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91, 7139 (1994).
16. L. Pauling, Nature of the Chemical Bond, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1950, p. 449.
17. B. Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, Garland Publishing, New York, 1994, pp. 114 and 496.
18. X. Zhu et al., Science, 272, 1606 (1996).
19. P. C. Weber and F. R. Salmme, Nature, 287, 82 (1980).
20. L. Holm and C. Samder, Science, 273, 595 (1996).
21. J. Janin and C. Chothia, J. Molec. Biol., 143, 95 (1980).
22. J. F. Leszczynski and G. D. Rose, Science, 234, 849 (1986).
23. B. Farood et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 90, 838 (1993).
24. R. Aurora et al., Science, 264, 1126 (1994).
25. R. F. Doolittle, in Prediction of Protein Structure and the Principles of Protein Conformation (G. D. Fasman, ed.), Plenum Press, New York, 1989, pp. 599-623.
26. K. Wada et al., Nucl. Acids Res. 20(Suppl.), 2111 (1992).
27. H. X. Zhou et al., Proteins, 18, 1 (1994).
28. B. H. Zimm and J. K. Bragg, J. Chem. Phys. 31, 526 (1959).
29. P. R. Steinert et al., Int. J. Biol. Macromol., 13, 130 (1991).
30. E. Pebay-Peyroula et al., Science, 277, 1676 (1997).
31. R. F. Service, Science, 274, 34 (1996).
32. E. Scherzinger et al., Cell, 90, 549 (1997).
33. S. B. Prusiner, Science, 278, 245 (1997).
34. L. Song et al., Science, 274, 1859 (1996).