Highly efficient protein misfolding cyclic amplification

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Gonzalez Montalban, Nuria ^a   Makarava, Natallia ^a   Ostapchenko, Valeriy G ^a   Savtchenk, Regina ^a   Alexeeva, Irina ^b   Rohwer, Robert G ^a,b   Baskakov, Ilia V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; PRION PROTEIN; AMYLOID; MICROSPHERE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; HAMSTER; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MISFOLING CYCLIC AMPLIFICATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SCRAPIE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTHESIS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

CRICETINAE; MAMMALIAN PRION;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; EFFICIENCY; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MICROSPHERES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PRPSC PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952213492     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001277     Document Type: Article

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