High yield purification and physico-chemical properties of full-length recombinant allelic variants of sheep prion protein linked to scrapie susceptibility

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2833-2839

  Rezaei, Human ^a,b   Marc, Daniel ^c   Choiset, Yvan ^c   Takahashi, Masayuki ^d   Hui Bon Hoa, Gaston ^a   Haertlé, Thomas ^c   Grosclaude, Jeanne ^b   Debey, Pascale ^a,c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

PrP stability; Scrapie; Sheep prion protein; Sheep PrP variants

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034127890     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2000.01347.x     Document Type: Article

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