Biochemical and conformational variability of human prion strains in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-36

  Aucouturier, Pierre ^a   Kascsak, Richard J ^b   Frangione, Blas ^a   Wisniewski, Thomas ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformation; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Fourier transform infra red spectroscopy; Prion; PrP; Strains

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE K;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION;

AGED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PRP 27-30 PROTEIN; PRPSC PROTEINS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 0032886307     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00659-X     Document Type: Article

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