Unveiling the role of histidine and tyrosine residues on the conformation of the avian prion hexarepeat domain.
Pietropaolo A, Muccioli L, Zannoni C, La Mendola D, Maccarrone G, Pappalardo G, Rizzarelli E.
Pietropaolo A, et al.
J Phys Chem B. 2008 Apr 24;112(16):5182-8. doi: 10.1021/jp710702q. Epub 2008 Apr 3.
J Phys Chem B. 2008.
PMID: 18386869
The prion protein (PrPC) is a glycoprotein that in mammals, differently from avians, can lead to prion diseases, by misfolding into a beta-sheet-rich pathogenic isoform (PrPSc). ...Proteins 2008, 70, 667-677), a conformational dependence on the protonation st …
The prion protein (PrPC) is a glycoprotein that in mammals, differently from avians, can lead to prion diseases, by misfolding into …