Title: Interactions of Ginkgolides A and B with a Recombinant Human Prion Protein
Volume: 17
Issue: 3
Author(s): Dessislava Georgieva, Lars Redecke, Martin von Bergen, Nicolay Genov and Chrsitian Betzel
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Keywords:
Three-dimensional structure, structural transformation, ginkgolide, prion protein, protein misfolding
Abstract: In the presence of ginkgolides A and B a recombinant human prion protein (90-231) is more susceptible to proteolysis, which is characteristic for the non-infective form of prion proteins and more thermostable than in the absence of ginkgolides. Probably, ginkgolides exert a neuroprotective effect through a rearrangement of the prion structure.