Antioxidant activity related to copper binding of native prion protein
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- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 76 (1) , 69-76
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-4159.2001.00009.x
Abstract
We have developed a method to affinity‐purify mouse prion protein (PrPc) from mouse brain and cultured cells. PrPc from mouse brain bound three copper atoms; PrPc from cultured cells bound between on...Keywords
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