The role of intrinsically unstructured proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Raychaudhuri, Swasti ^a   Dey, Sucharita ^a   Bhattacharyya, Nitai P ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Debashis ^a  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BRAIN PROTEIN; CYTIDINE; GUANIDINE; HUNTINGTIN; INTRINSICALLY UNSTRUCTURED PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LEWY BODY; NERVE CELL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEINS;

EID: 65949097958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005566     Document Type: Article

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