Mutability of prions

EMBO Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1243-1250

  Li, Jiali ^a   Mahal, Sukhvir P ^a   Demczyk, Cheryl A ^a   Weissmann, Charles ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

mutation; selection; strain; substrain; swainsonine

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; SWAINSONINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCRAPIE; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CLONE CELLS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PRIONS; SWAINSONINE; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

MURINAE;

EID: 82655162020     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2011.191     Document Type: Article

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