Folding pathways of prion and doppel

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 3533-3541

  Settanni, Giovanni ^a,c   Hoang, Trinh Xuan ^a,b   Micheletti, Cristian ^a   Maritan, Amos ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPEL PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SCRAPIE; SIMULATION;

EID: 0036931525     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)75353-8     Document Type: Article

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