One gene, two diseases and three conformations: molecular dynamics simulations of mutants of human prion protein at room temperature and elevated temperatures.

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Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are associated to the same mutation at codon 178 but differentiate into clinicopathologically distinct diseases determined by this mutation and a naturally occurring methionine-valine polymorphism at codon 129 of the prion protein gene. It has been suggested that the clinical and pathological difference between FFI and CJD is caused by different...

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