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Slow spontaneous α-to-β structural conversion in a non-denaturing neutral condition reveals the intrinsically disordered property of the disulfide-reduced recombinant mouse prion protein

In prion diseases, the normal prion protein is transformed by an unknown mechanism from a mainly α-helical structure to a β-sheet-rich, disease-related isomer. In this study, we surprisingly found that a slow, spontaneous α-to-coil-to-β transition could be monitored by circular dichroism spectroscop...

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Autores principales: Sang, Jason C., Lee, Chung-Yu, Luh, Frederick Y., Huang, Ya-Wen, Chiang, Yun-Wei, Chen, Rita P.-Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22987112
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/pri.22217