Filaments of the Ure2p prion protein have a cross-β core structure

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 170-179

  Baxa, Ulrich ^a,b   Cheng, Naiqian ^a   Winkler, Dennis C ^a   Chiu, Thang K ^b   Davies, David R ^b   Sharma, Deepak ^c   Inouye, Hideyo ^c   Kirschner, Daniel A ^c   Wickner, Reed B ^b   Steven, Alasdair C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron diffraction; Natively unfolded protein; X ray diffraction; Yeast prion

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; HYBRID PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URE2P PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YEAST;

EID: 20944436593     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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