Prion Proteins /
edited by Byron Caughey.
- 2001.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 405 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color).
- Advances in protein chemistry, v. 57 0065-3233 ; .
- Advances in protein chemistry ; v. 57. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prion protein diversity and disease in the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / Suzette A. Priola -- Mass spectrometric analysis of prion proteins / Michael A. Baldwin -- Three-dimensional structures of prion proteins / Kurt Wüthrich and Roland Riek -- Folding dynamics and energetics of recombinant prion proteins / Rudi Glockshuber -- Simulations and computational analyses of prion protein conformations / Darwin O.V. Alonso and Valerie Daggett -- Interactions and conversions of prion protein isoforms / Byron Caughey [and others] -- Studies of peptide fragments of prion proteins / Fabrizio Tagliavini [and others] -- Biosynthesis and cellular processing of the prion protein / David A. Harris -- Interaction of prion proteins with cell surface receptors, molecular chaperones, and other molecules / Sabine Gauczynski [and others] -- Transgenic studies of the influence of the PrP structure on TSE diseases / Emmanuel A. Asante and John Collinge -- Yeast prions act as genes composed of self-propagating protein amyloids / Reed B. Wickner [and others] -- (PSI), SUP35, and Chaperones / Tricia R. Serio and Susan L. Lindquist.
Prion Proteins is "issue-oriented" and edited by a well-known authority in the field. Topics covered include structure, diversity, and energetics as well as the diseases associated with prion proteins.