Fibril formation of the rabbit/human/bovine prion proteins

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1483-1492

  Zhou, Zheng ^a   Yan, Xu ^a   Pan, Kai ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Xie, Zheng Sheng ^b   Xiao, Geng Fu ^a   Yang, Fu Quan ^b   Liang, Yi ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

an abnormal disease causing isoform of prion protein; CD; circular dichroism; CJD; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; electrospray ionization; ESI; Fourier transform infrared; FTIR; glycosylphosphatidylinositol; GPI; mass spectrometry; MS; PK; prion protein; proteinase K; PrP; PrP C; PrP Sc; SDS; sodium dodecyl sulfate; TEM; the normal cellular PrP molecule; thioflavin T; ThT; transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE K;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PRION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEOSTASIS DEFICIENCY; RABBIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; HUMANS; KINETICS; PRIONS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEOLYSIS; PROTEOSTASIS DEFICIENCIES; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 80053106666     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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