Toward the molecular basis of inherited prion diseases: NMR structure of the human prion protein with v210i mutation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 412, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 660-673

  Biljan, Ivana ^a,g   Ilc, Gregor ^a,b   Giachin, Gabriele ^c   Raspadori, Andrea ^c   Zhukov, Igor ^a,b,h   Plavec, Janez ^a,b,d   Legname, Giuseppe ^c,e,f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b EN FIST Centre of Excellence   (Slovenia)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^f SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^h INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

genetic Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; mutants; NMR structure determination; prions; transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; V210I GENE;

EID: 84860389727     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.07.067     Document Type: Article

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