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Fred E. Cohen is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research activity is primarily situated within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, their work focuses more specifically on the subfields of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

The main topics addressed in their scientific work encompass Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding as well as Animal Genetics and Reproduction.

Fred E. Cohen has contributed to the following published paper:

  • Genes contributing to prion pathogenesis (2020), UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cohen include:

  • Gültekin Tamgüney
  • Kurt Giles
  • David V. Glidden
  • Pierre Lessard
  • Holger Wille

Their publications have appeared in the venue listed as UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • Conversion of alpha-helices into beta-sheets features in the formation of the scrapie prion proteins.

    K M Pan;M Baldwin;J Nguyen;M Gasset

  • Eight prion strains have PrP Sc molecules with different conformations

    Jiri Safar;Holger Wille;Vincenza Itri;Darlene Groth

  • An evolutionary trace method defines binding surfaces common to protein families

    Olivier Lichtarge;Henry R. Bourne;Fred E. Cohen

  • Synthetic Mammalian Prions

    Giuseppe Legname;Ilia V. Baskakov;Hoang-Oanh B. Nguyen;Detlev Riesner

  • Prion protein biology.

    Stanley B Prusiner;Michael R Scott;Stephen J DeArmond;Fred E Cohen

  • Prion propagation in mice expressing human and chimeric PrP transgenes implicates the interaction of cellular PrP with another protein

    Glenn C. Telling;Michael Scott;James Mastrianni;Ruth Gabizon

  • Bayesian statistical analysis of protein side-chain rotamer preferences

    Roland L. Dunbrack;Fred E. Cohen

  • Therapeutic approaches to protein-misfolding diseases

    Fred E. Cohen;Jeffery W. Kelly

  • Improvements in protein secondary structure prediction by an enhanced neural network

    D.G. Kneller;F.E. Cohen;R. Langridge

  • Structure of the recombinant full-length hamster prion protein PrP(29-231): the N terminus is highly flexible.

    Donne Dg;Viles Jh;Groth D;Mehlhorn I

  • Acridine and phenothiazine derivatives as pharmacotherapeutics for prion disease

    Carsten Korth;Barnaby C. H. May;Fred E. Cohen;Stanley B. Prusiner

  • Evidence for assembly of prions with left-handed β-helices into trimers

    Cédric Govaerts;Holger Wille;Stanley B. Prusiner;Fred E. Cohen

  • PREDICTION OF PROTEIN SIDE-CHAIN ROTAMERS FROM A BACKBONE-DEPENDENT ROTAMER LIBRARY : A NEW HOMOLOGY MODELING TOOL

    Michael J. Bower;Fred E. Cohen;Roland L. Dunbrack

  • Pathologic Conformations of Prion Proteins

    Fred E. Cohen;Stanley B. Prusiner

  • Structural clues to prion replication

    Fred E. Cohen;Keh-Ming Pan;Ziwei Huang;Michael Baldwin

  • COPPER BINDING TO THE PRION PROTEIN : STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF FOUR IDENTICAL COOPERATIVE BINDING SITES

    John H. Viles;Fred E. Cohen;Stanley B. Prusiner;David B. Goodin

  • Evidence for protein X binding to a discontinuous epitope on the cellular prion protein during scrapie prion propagation

    Kiyotoshi Kaneko;Laurence Zulianello;Michael Scott;Carol M. Cooper

  • Ataxia in prion protein (PrP)-deficient mice is associated with upregulation of the novel PrP-like protein doppel.

    R. C. Moore;I. Y. Lee;G. L. Silverman;P. M. Harrison

  • Prion protein selectively binds copper(II) ions.

    Johannes Stöckel;Jiri Safar;Andrew C. Wallace;Fred E. Cohen

  • Solution structure of a 142-residue recombinant prion protein corresponding to the infectious fragment of the scrapie isoform.

    Thomas L. James;He Liu;Nikolai B. Ulyanov;Shauna Farr-Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner University of California, San Francisco
James H. McKerrow
James H. McKerrow University of California, San Diego
Stephen J. DeArmond
Stephen J. DeArmond University of California, San Francisco
Irwin D. Kuntz
Irwin D. Kuntz University of California, San Francisco
Michael A. Baldwin
Michael A. Baldwin University of California, San Francisco
Holger Wille
Holger Wille University of Alberta
George L. Kenyon
George L. Kenyon University of California, San Francisco
Darlene Groth
Darlene Groth University of California, San Francisco
Robert J. Fletterick
Robert J. Fletterick University of California, San Francisco
Scott R. Presnell
Scott R. Presnell Virginia Mason Medical Center

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