Article
Prion protein (PrP) with amino-proximal deletions restoring susceptibility of PrP knockout mice to scrapie.
The EMBO journal - 15 Mar 1996
Fischer M, Rülicke T, Raeber A, Sailer A, Moser M, Oesch B, Brandner S, Aguzzi A, Weissmann C
Abstract excerpt
The 'protein only' hypothesis postulates that the prion, the agent causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, is PrP(Sc), an isoform of the host protein PrP(C). Protease treatment of prion preparations cleaves off approximately 60 N-terminal residues of PrP(Sc) but does not abrogate infec...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amyloid
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Brain
- Disease Susceptibility
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- PrPC Proteins
- PrPSc Proteins
- Prion Proteins
- Prions
- Protein Precursors
- RNA, Messenger
- Scrapie