Biology of infectious proteins: Lessons from yeast prions

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Volumn 364, Issue 9444, 2004, Pages 1471-1472

  Burwinkel, Michael ^a   Holtkamp, Nikola ^b   Baier, Michael ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; YEAST;

EID: 6944244446     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17290-5     Document Type: Note

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