Truncated forms of the prion protein PrP demonstrate the need for complexity in prion structure

Prion

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 333-338

  Wan, William ^a,c   Stöhr, Jan ^b   Kendall, Amy ^a   Stubbs, Gerald ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

amyloid; fiber diffraction; peptide models; prion structure; protein aggregation; self propagation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PRION PROTEIN; PRION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PRION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; HUMANS; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84961254491     PISSN: 19336896     EISSN: 1933690X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2015.1084464     Document Type: Note

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