Prion protein repeat expansion results in increased aggregation and reveals phenotypic variability

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5445-5455

  Tank, Elizabeth M H ^a   Harris, David A ^a   Desai, Amar A ^a   True, Heather L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FUNGAL STRAIN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OLIGOPEPTIDE REPEAT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MEIOSIS; MICE; MITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MAMMALIAN PRION;

EID: 34547204037     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.02127-06     Document Type: Article

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