Copper Binding in the Prion Protein

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-85

  Millhauser, Glenn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COPPER; PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; HUMAN; KURU; METABOLISM; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COPPER; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID;

EID: 1242316297     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar0301678     Document Type: Article

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