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The effects of prion protein proteolysis and disaggregation on the strain properties of hamster scrapie.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Oct 2008
Deleault Andrea M, Deleault Nathan R, Harris Brent T, Rees Judy R, Supattapone Surachai
Abstract excerpt
Native mammalian prions exist in self-propagating strains that exhibit distinctive clinical, pathological and biochemical characteristics. Prion strain diversity is associated with variations in PrP(Sc) conformation, but it remains unknown precisely which physical properties of the PrP(Sc) molecu...
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