Analysis of nucleic acid chaperoning by the prion protein and its inhibition by oligonucleotides

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8544-8558

  Guichard, Cécile ^a   Ivanyi Nagy, Roland ^a,d   Sharma, Kamal Kant ^b   Gabus, Caroline ^a   Marc, Daniel ^c   Mély, Yves ^b   Darlix, Jean Luc ^a  

^a University Lyon i   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PRION PROTEIN; RIBOZYME;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; DNA TEMPLATE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA METHYLATION; TRANS SPLICING;

ANIMALS; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PEPTIDES; PRPC PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; SHEEP; TRANS-SPLICING;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; OVIS;

EID: 80455155974     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr554     Document Type: Article

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