An immunological epitope selective for pathological monomer-misfolded SOD1 in ALS

Nature Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 754-759

  Rakhit, Rishi ^a   Robertson, Janice ^b   Velde, Christine Vande ^c   Horne, Patrick ^b   Ruth, Deborah M ^b   Griffin, Jennifer ^b   Cleveland, Don W ^c   Cashman, Neil R ^a,d   Chakrabartty, Avijit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; EPITOPE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SYMPTOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITOPES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RABBITS; RATS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 34249980373     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1559     Document Type: Article

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