Cytoplasmic expression of mouse prion protein causes severe toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 372, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 697-702

  Park, Kyung Won ^a   Li, Liming ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; C. elegans; Neurodegeneration; Prion; Protein misfolding; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOPLASM; DETERGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; MICE; MUSCLE CELLS; MUTATION; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SARCOSINE; SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 45449098044     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.05.132     Document Type: Article

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