A Raman optical activity study of rheomorphism in caseins, synucleins and tau: New insight into the structure and behaviour of natively unfolded proteins

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 148-156

  Syme, Christopher D ^a   Blanch, Ewan W ^a   Holt, Carl ^b   Jakes, Ross ^c   Goedert, Michel ^c   Hecht, Lutz ^a   Barron, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b HANNAH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyloid fibrils; Caseins, synucleins and tau; Neurodegenerative disease; Polyproline II helix; Raman optical activity

Indexed keywords

BETA CASEIN; BETA SYNUCLEIN; BRAIN PROTEIN; CASEIN; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN; KAPPA CASEIN; MILK PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROLINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNUCLEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CATTLE; COILED BODY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN BOND; OPTICAL ROTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ANIMALS; CASEINS; CATTLE; GAMMA-SYNUCLEIN; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SYNUCLEINS; TAU PROTEINS;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0036157963     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0014-2956.2001.02633.x     Document Type: Article

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