Investigating the structural impact of the glutamine repeat in huntingtin assembly

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 411-421

  Perevozchikova, Tatiana ^a   Stanley, Christopher B ^b   McWilliams Koeppen, Helen P ^a   Rowe, Erica L ^a   Berthelier, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYGLUTAMINE;

CHEMISTRY; EXON; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEINOSIS; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING;

EXONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN AGGREGATION, PATHOLOGICAL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE;

EID: 84904580025     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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