Mechanism of prion propagation: Amyloid growth occurs by monomer addition

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Collins, Sean R ^a   Douglass, Adam ^a   Vale, Ronald D ^a   Weissman, Jonathan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; MONOMER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYMER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SUP35 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIOFLAVINE;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

AMYLOID; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; POLYMERS; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; THIAZOLES; TIME FACTORS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 8844247180     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020321     Document Type: Article

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