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Cross-sequence transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease creates a new prion strain.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 12 Oct 2007
Kobayashi Atsushi, Asano Masahiro, Mohri Shirou, Kitamoto Tetsuyuki
Abstract excerpt
The genotype (methionine or valine) at polymorphic codon 129 of the human prion protein (PrP) gene and the type (type 1 or type 2) of abnormal isoform of PrP (PrP(Sc)) are major determinants of the clinicopathological phenotypes of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD). Here we found that the...
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