Epigenetic Dominance of Prion Conformers

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Saijo, Eri ^a,b,d   Kang, Hae Eun ^a   Bian, Jifeng ^a   Bowling, Kristi G ^b,e   Browning, Shawn ^b,f   Kim, Sehun ^a   Hunter, Nora ^a,c   Telling, Glenn C ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Cytonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN VARIANT;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIGENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MISFOLDING CYCLIC AMPLIFICATION; SCRAPIE AGENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; CATTLE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PRION DISEASES; PRPSC PROTEINS; SHEEP;

EID: 84887276686     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003692     Document Type: Article

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