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In Vitro Approach To Identify Key Amino Acids in Low Susceptibility of Rabbit Prion Protein to Misfolding.
Journal of virology - 15 Dec 2017
Eraña Hasier, Fernández-Borges Natalia, Elezgarai Saioa R, Harrathi Chafik, Charco Jorge M, Chianini Francesca, Dagleish Mark P, Ortega Gabriel, Millet Óscar, Castilla Joaquín
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Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are a group of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders caused by an abnormally folded prion protein (PrPSc). This is capable of transforming the normal cellular prion protein (PrPC) into new infectious PrPSc Interspecies prion transmissibility studies performed by experimental challenge and the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy...
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