Structural intermediates in the putative pathway from the cellular prion protein to the pathogenic form

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 382, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 683-691

  Jansen, Katja ^a   Schäfer, Oliver ^a   Birkmann, Eva ^a   Post, Karin ^a   Serban, Hana ^b,c   Prusiner, Stanley B ^b,c   Riesner, Detlev ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical crosslinks; Conformational transition; Folding intermediate; Oligomerization; Size exclusion chromatography; Soluble sheet structure

Indexed keywords

DIMER; OLIGOMER; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TETRAMER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DILUTION; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TEMPERATURE;

BUFFERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; POLYMERS; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PRPSC PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 17344375337     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2001.081     Document Type: Article

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