Constraining the loop, releasing prion infectivity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-11

  Soto, Claudio ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58549086535     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811625106     Document Type: Note

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