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In vitro amplification of scrapie and chronic wasting disease PrP(res) using baculovirus-expressed recombinant PrP as substrate.
Prion - 1 Jan 2014
Faburay Bonto, Tark Dongseob, Kanthasamy Anumantha G, Richt Juergen A
Abstract excerpt
Protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) is an in vitro simulation of prion replication, which relies on the use of normal brain homogenate derived from host species as substrate for the specific amplification of abnormal prion protein, PrP(Sc). Studies showed that recombinant cellular PrP, PrP(C), expressed in Escherichia coli lacks N-glycosylation and an glycophosphatidyl inositol anchor (GPI) and...
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