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Characterization of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions in prion protein-humanized mice carrying distinct codon 129 genotypes.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 26 Jul 2013
Takeuchi Atsuko, Kobayashi Atsushi, Ironside James W, Mohri Shirou, Kitamoto Tetsuyuki
Abstract excerpt
To date, all clinical variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) patients are homozygous for methionine at polymorphic codon 129 (129M/M) of the prion protein (PrP) gene. However, the appearance of asymptomatic secondary vCJD infection in individuals with a PRNP codon 129 genotype other than M/M and transmission studies using animal models have raised the concern that all humans might be susceptible to vCJD prions,...
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