Solution structure of Ser14Gly-humanin, a potent rescue factor against neuronal cell death in Alzheimer's disease

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 634-642

  Benaki, Dimitra ^a   Zikos, Christos ^a   Evangelou, Alexandra ^a   Livaniou, Evangelia ^a   Vlassi, Metaxia ^a   Mikros, Emmanuel ^b   Pelecanou, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; CD; Humanin; Neuroprotection; NMR; S14G humanin

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HUMANIN; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; DRUG CONFORMATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG STRUCTURE; LIPOPHILICITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GLYCINE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SERINE;

EID: 33748565003     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.08.087     Document Type: Article

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