New insight into the species barrier of mammalian prions obtained from structure-based conservation analysis

Intervirology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 210-216

  Wang, Yaofeng ^a   Hu, Bingjie ^a   Liu, Yuan ^a   Zhang, Huili ^a   Song, Youtao ^a  

^a LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Phylogenetic trees; Prions, mammalian; Species barrier; Structural conservation analysis

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTROSPECTION; MAMMAL; MODULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPECIES; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAMMALIA; MAMMALIAN PRION;

EID: 50049130743     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000151732     Document Type: Article

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