Folding kinetics of the human prion protein probed by temperature jump

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

Volumn 106, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5651-5656

  Hart, Tanya ^a   Hosszu, Laszlo L P ^a,b   Trevitt, Clare R ^a   Jackson, Graham S ^a   Waltho, Jonathan P ^b   Collinge, John ^a   Clarke, Anthony R ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

value analysis; Equilibrium perturbation; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

HUMANS; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 65249125818     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811457106     Document Type: Article

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