Conformation of paired helical filaments blocks dephosphorylation of epitopes shared with fetal tau except Ser199/202 and Ser202/Thr2055

Brain Research

Volumn 856, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 163-175

  Gordon Krajcer, W ^a,b   Yang, L S ^a   Ksiezak Reding, H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Formic acid; Paired helical filament; Phosphatase; Tau protein

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; EPITOPE; PHOSPHATASE; TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CONFORMATION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRAIN; EPITOPES; FEMALE; FETUS; FORMIC ACIDS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPIL THREADS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SERINE; TAU PROTEINS; THREONINE;

EID: 0033963038     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02391-4     Document Type: Article

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