Alternative assembly pathways of the amyloidogenic yeast prion determinant Sup35-NM

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1196-1201

  Hess, Simone ^a   Lindquist, Susan L ^b   Scheibel, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; CONGO RED; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUP35; PROTEINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; THIOFLAVINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; YEAST;

AMYLOID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

MAMMALIAN PRION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 36749079833     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401096     Document Type: Article

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