Fluorescence-coupled CD conformational monitoring of filament formation of tau microtubule-binding repeat domain

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 343, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 712-718

  Mizushima, Fumie ^a   Minoura, Katsuhiko ^a   Tomoo, Koji ^a   Sumida, Miho ^b   Taniguchi, Taizo ^b   Ishida, Toshimasa ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Behavioral and Medical Sciences Research Consortium   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Conformational transition; Filament formation; Fluorescence; Microtubule binding domain; Repeat peptide; Tau

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN; THIOFLAVINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; TAU PROTEINS; THIAZOLES;

EID: 33645911173     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.02.185     Document Type: Article

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