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The role of the unusual threonine string in the conversion of prion protein

The conversion of normal prion protein (PrP) into pathogenic PrP conformers is central to prion disease, but the mechanism remains unclear. The α-helix 2 of PrP contains a string of four threonines, which is unusual due to the high propensity of threonine to form β-sheets. This structural feature wa...

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Publié dans:Sci Rep
Auteurs principaux: Abskharon, Romany, Wang, Fei, Vander Stel, Kayla J., Sinniah, Kumar, Ma, Jiyan
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5159806/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27982059
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38877
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