학술논문
Aggregating Knowledge about Prions and Amyloid
Document Type
Report
Author
Source
Cell. April 3, 2009, Vol. 137 Issue 1, p20, 3 p.
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
0092-8674
Abstract
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2009.03.030 Byline: Douglas M. Fowler (1), Jeffery W. Kelly (2) Abstract: Prions, self-propagating protein structures that can be transmitted between cells and different organisms, usually consist of ordered protein aggregates. now present a systematic approach for the discovery of new prions that expands the spectrum of their biological functions. Author Affiliation: (1) Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA (2) Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Experimental Medicine and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA