Predicting the aggregation propensity of prion sequences

Virus Research

Volumn 207, Issue , 2015, Pages 127-135

  Espargaró, Alba ^a,b   Busquets, Maria Antònia ^a,b   Estelrich, Joan ^a,b   Sabate, Raimon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amyloid algorithm; Amyloid prediction; Hot spot; Prion prediction; Sheet prediction

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PRION PROTEIN; PRION; PROTEIN AGGREGATE;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; COMPUTER MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; PRIONS; PROTEIN AGGREGATES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84938740330     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: 18727492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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