Water molecules as structural determinants among prions of low sequence identity

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2488-2494

  De Simone, Alfonso ^a,b   Dodson, Guy G ^a,c   Fraternali, Franca ^a,d   Zagari, Adriana ^b,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CNISM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Edge to edge aggregation; Molecular dynamics; Prion protein; Protein hydration; Structural comparison

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; HYDRATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECIES COMPARISON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WATER;

ANURA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MAMMALIAN PRION; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33646528658     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.02.083     Document Type: Article

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