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Discrimination of sheep susceptible and resistant to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies by an haplotype specific monoclonal antibody.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Nov 2007
Bilheude J M, Brun A, Morel N, Díaz San Segundo F, Lecroix S, Espinosa J C, González L, Steele P, Grassi J, Andréoletti O, Torres J M
Abstract excerpt
In the present report, the selective detection of sheep PrP haplotypes by monoclonal antibody 2A11 is described. It is showed that the substitution of glutamine by arginine but not by histidine at ovine PrP position 171 abolishes completely the recognition of either PrP(c) or PrP(d) by mAb 2A11, in such a way that the application of this antibody allows the unambiguous discrimination of R(171) homozygotes. On the...
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