Molecular biology of prion propagation.

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The occurrence of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the experimental confirmation that it is caused by the same prion strain as BSE has dramatically highlighted the need for a precise understanding of the molecular basis of prion propagation. The molecular basis of prion-strain diversity, previously a major challenge to the protein-only model, is now becoming clearer. The conformational change thought to...

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