Fungal prion HET-s as a model for structural complexity and self-propagation in prions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5201-5206

  Wan, William ^a   Stubbs, Gerald ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HET S PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SELF PROPAGATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; X RAY;

ASPARAGINE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KINETICS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PODOSPORA; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84898047961     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1322933111     Document Type: Article

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