SAXS structural study of PrPSc reveals ~11 nm diameter of basic double intertwined fibers

Prion

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 496-500

  Amenitsch, Heinz ^a   Benetti, Federico ^b,d   Ramos, Adriana ^c   Legname, Giuseppe ^b   Requena, Jesús R ^c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^d European Center for the Sustainable Impact of Nanotechnologies   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Prion; PrPSc structure; SAXS; Synchrotron radiation; TEM

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; HAMSTER; PATHOLOGY; SCRAPIE; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SCRAPIE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84893858360     PISSN: 19336896     EISSN: 1933690X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/pri.27190     Document Type: Article

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