Conformations of microtubule-associated protein tau mapped by fluorescence resonance energy transfer

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 849, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-99

  Jeganathan, Sadasivam ^a,b   Chinnathambi, Subashchandrabose ^a   Mandelkow, Eva Maria ^a,c   Mandelkow, Eckhard ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK UNIT FOR STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b IFOM IEO Campus ^*  (Italy)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Alzheimer disease; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Protein conformation; Tau protein

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN; GUANIDINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOLID STATE; STEADY STATE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GUANIDINE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84864580608     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-551-0_7     Document Type: Article

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