Identification of pH-sensitive regions in the mouse prion by the cysteine-scanning spin-labeling ESR technique

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 350, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 549-556

  Watanabe, Yasuko ^a   Inanami, Osamu ^a   Horiuchi, Motohiro ^a   Hiraoka, Wakako ^b   Shimoyama, Yuhei ^c   Inagaki, Fuyuhiko ^d   Kuwabara, Mikinori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Domain mobility; ESR; pH sensitive region; Prion; SDSL

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; NITROXIDE; PRION PROTEIN; REAGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CODON; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENDOSOME; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OBSERVATION; PERIODICITY; PH; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPIN LABELING; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYSTEINE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PRPC PROTEINS; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 33749643797     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.09.082     Document Type: Article

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