Toxicity of α-synuclein and Aβ40 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Romanian Biotechnological Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5773-5780

  Serviene, Elena ^a,b   Pilevičiene, Simona ^a   Časaite, Vida ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Synuclein; Amyloid ; Glucose dehydrogenase; Toxicity; Yeast

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78650775834     PISSN: 12245984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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