Molecular analysis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie strain variation.

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Molecular analysis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie strain variation.

The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 1998

Kuczius T, Haist I, Groschup M H

Abstract excerpt

Five mouse scrapie strains, a mouse-passaged scrapie isolate derived from a field case in sheep in Germany, and 2 mouse-passaged bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) isolates were analyzed by immunoblot in regards to banding patterns of proteinase K-digested pathologic prion proteins (PrPres)....

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Cattle
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
Endopeptidase K
Genetic Variation
Glycosylation
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Molecular Sequence Data
Prions
Scrapie
Sheep

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