Amyloidogenic unfolding intermediates differentiate sheep prion protein variants

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 799-814

  Rezaei, Human ^a   Choiset, Yvan ^b   Eghiaian, Frederic ^c   Treguer, Eric ^a   Mentre, Pascale ^c   Debey, Pascale ^c   Grosclaude, Jeanne ^a   Haertle, Thomas ^b  

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

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Amyloidogenic intermediate; PrP genetic polymorphism; Scrapie susceptibility; Sheep prion protein; Unfolding pathway

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; THIOFLAVINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; SCRAPIE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0036387276     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00856-2     Document Type: Article

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