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Mutant PrPSc conformers induced by a synthetic peptide and several prion strains.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 2004
Tremblay Patrick, Ball Haydn L, Kaneko Kiyotoshi, Groth Darlene, Hegde Ramanujan S, Cohen Fred E, DeArmond Stephen J, Prusiner Stanley B, Safar Jiri G
Abstract excerpt
Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) disease is a dominantly inherited, human prion disease caused by a mutation in the prion protein (PrP) gene. One mutation causing GSS is P102L, denoted P101L in mouse PrP (MoPrP). In a line of transgenic mice denoted Tg2866, the P101L mutation in MoPrP produced neurodegeneration when expressed at high levels. MoPrP(Sc)(P101L) was detected both by the conformation-dependent...
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