Natural and synthetic prion structure from X-ray fiber diffraction

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

Volumn 106, Issue 40, 2009, Pages 16990-16995

  Wille, Holger ^a,b   Bian, Wen ^c   McDonald, Michele ^c   Kendall, Amy ^c   Colby, David W ^a   Bloch, Lillian ^a   Ollesch, Julian ^a,d   Borovinskiy, Alexander L ^b,e   Cohen, Fred E ^a,b   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a,b   Stubbs, Gerald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

helix; Amyloid; Neurodegeneration; Protein; PrP

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BRAIN; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

MAMMALIAN PRION; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 70350134002     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909006106     Document Type: Article

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