Ultrastructural studies on scrapie prion protein crystals obtained from reverse micellar solutions

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1048-1062

  Wille, Holger ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; FEMALE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCRAPIE; SOLUBILIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

EID: 0033030954     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77270-X     Document Type: Article

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