PrPSc Incorporation to Cells Requires Endogenous Glycosaminoglycan Expression

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Many lines of evidence suggest an interaction between glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and the PrP proteins as well as a possible role for GAGs in prion disease pathogenesis. In this work, we sought to determine whether the PrP-GAG interaction affects the incorporation of PrP(Sc) (the scrapie isoform of PrP) to normal cells. This may be the first step in prion disease pathogenesis. To this effect, we incubated...

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