Direct observation of multiple misfolding pathways in a single prion protein molecule

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5283-5288

  Yu, Hao ^a   Liu, Xia ^a   Neupane, Krishna ^a   Gupta, Amar Nath ^a   Brigley, Angela M ^b   Solanki, Allison ^a   Sosova, Iveta ^b   Woodside, Michael T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optical tweezers; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MISFOLDING; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SPECTROSCOPY;

PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859465192     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107736109     Document Type: Article

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