High intrinsic mechanical flexibility of mouse prion nanofibrils revealed by measurements of axial and radial Young's moduli.

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Self-templated protein aggregation and intracerebral deposition of aggregates, sometimes in the form of amyloid fibrils, is a hallmark of mammalian prion diseases. What distinguishes amyloid fibrils formed by prions from those formed by other proteins is not clear. On the basis of previous studies on yeast prions that correlated high intrinsic fragmentation rates of fibrils with prion propagation efficiency, it...

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