Functionally relevant domains of the prion protein identified in vivo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Baumann, Frank ^a,b   Pahnke, Jens ^a,d   Radovanovic, Ivan ^a,e   Rülicke, Thomas ^c   Bremer, Juliane ^a   Tolnay, Markus ^a,f   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; HYBRID PROTEIN; NEUROTOXIN; PRNP PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONGEVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENETIC VARIATION; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROTOXINS; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 70249131510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006707     Document Type: Article

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