The utility of prions

Developmental Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-151

  Osherovich, Lev Z ^a   Weissman, Jonathan S ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; ASPARAGINE; CHAPERONE; GLUTAMINE; PRION PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EUKARYOTE; MYCOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0036479465     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(02)00118-1     Document Type: Review

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