Stability and Cu(II) binding of prion protein variants related to inherited human prion diseases

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1985-1997

  Cereghetti, Grazia M ^a,c   Schweiger, Arthur ^a   Glockshuber, Rudi ^a   Van Doorslaer, Sabine ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ION; HISTIDINE; PRION PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; GENETIC DISORDER; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; PH; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

MURINAE;

EID: 0037343044     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)75007-3     Document Type: Article

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