Generation, purification, and characterization of cell-invasive DISC1 protein species

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 66, 2012, Pages

  Bader, Verian ^a   Ottis, Philipp ^a   Pum, Martin ^b   Huston, Joseph P ^b   Korth, Carsten ^a  

^a Medical School Düsseldorf   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggresome; Brain; Cell invasiveness; DISC1; DISC1opathy; Genetics; Issue 66; Medicine; Molecular biology; Multimerization; Neuroscience; Protein aggregate; Protein conformational disease; Protein labeling; Purification; Rat; Recombinant protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868267470     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4132     Document Type: Article

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