Article
Different forms of the bovine PrP gene have five or six copies of a short, G-C-rich element within the protein-coding exon.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jan 1991
Goldmann W, Hunter N, Martin T, Dawson M, Hope J
Abstract excerpt
Current models of the virus-like agents of scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have to take into account that structural changes in a host-encoded protein (PrP protein) exhibit an effect on the time course of these diseases and the survival time of any man or animal exposed to thes...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cattle
- DNA
- DNA, Viral
- Exons
- Female
- Genes, Viral
- Leukocytes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- PrPSc Proteins
- Prions
- Viral Proteins