De novo design of synthetic prion domains

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

Volumn 109, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6519-6524

  Toombs, James A ^a,c   Petri, Michelina ^a   Paul, Kacy R ^a   Kan, Grace Y ^a   Ben Hur, Asa ^b   Rossa, Eric D ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Colorado State University   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Sup35; Yeast

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; YEAST;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84860149496     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119366109     Document Type: Article

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