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Discriminant analysis of prion sequences for prediction of susceptibility.
Experimental & molecular medicine - 11 Oct 2013
Lee Ji-Hae, Bae Se-Eun, Jung Sunghoon, Ahn Insung, Son Hyeon Seok
Abstract excerpt
Prion diseases, including ovine scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), human kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), originate from a conformational change of the normal cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) into abnormal protease-resistant prion protein (PrP(Sc)). There is concern regarding these prion diseases because of the possibility of their zoonotic infections across species. Mutations and...
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