Changes in prion replication environment cause prion strain mutation

FASEB Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3702-3710

  Gonzalez Montalban, Nuria ^a   Lee, Young Jin ^a   Makarava, Natallia ^a   Savtchenko, Regina ^a   Baskakov, Ilia V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Conformational stability; Neurodegenerative diseases; Protein misfolding; Protein misfolding cyclic amplification; Proteinase K digestion

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMYLOID; CONFORMATIONAL STABILITY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROTEIN MISFOLDING; PROTEIN MISFOLDING CYCLIC AMPLIFICATION; PROTEINASE K DIGESTION;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CRICETINAE; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; MUTATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84883370920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.13-230466     Document Type: Article

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