In vitro conversion of mammalian prion protein into amyloid fibrils displays unusual features

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2339-2348

  Baskakov, Ilia V ^a,b,c   Bocharova, Olga V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DISEASE CONTROL; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; POLYMERIZATION; POLYPEPTIDES;

AMYLOID FIBRILS; PRION PROTEINS; SELF-PROPAGATION; THRESHOLD EFFECT;

PROTEINS;

AMYLOID; PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; FIBER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PRIONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 14044250915     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048322t     Document Type: Article

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