Site-Specific Perturbations of Alpha-Synuclein Fibril Structure by the Parkinson's Disease Associated Mutations A53T and E46K

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lemkau, Luisel R ^a   Comellas, Gemma ^b   Lee, Shin W ^a   Rikardsen, Lars K ^a   Woods, Wendy S ^b   George, Julia M ^b   Rienstra, Chad M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HUMANS; LEWY BODIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84874680352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049750     Document Type: Article

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