Conformational plasticity of proNGF

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Paoletti, Francesca ^a   Malerba, Francesca ^a,b   Kelly, Geoff ^c   Noinville, Sylvie ^d   Lamba, Doriano ^e   Cattaneo, Antonino ^a,b   Pastore, Annalisa ^f  

^a EUROPEAN BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PEPTIDE; PRO NERVE GROWTH FACTOR, MOUSE; PRO-NERVE GROWTH FACTOR, MOUSE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; TRYPSIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFUSION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CULTURE MEDIA; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; PROTEOLYSIS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TRYPSIN;

EID: 79960826721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022615     Document Type: Article

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