Conformational polymorphism of wild-type and mutant prion proteins: Energy landscape analysis

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 458-468

  Levy, Yaakov ^a   Becker, Oren M ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conformational transitions; D178N PrP mutant; E200K PrP mutant; Energy landscape; Wild type prion proteins

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PRPC PROTEINS;

EID: 0036606794     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10095     Document Type: Article

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