The physical relationship between infectivity and prion protein aggregates is strain-dependent.
Prions are unconventional infectious agents thought to be primarily composed of PrP(Sc), a multimeric misfolded conformer of the ubiquitously expressed host-encoded prion protein (PrP(C)). They cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in both animals and humans. The disease phenotype is not uniform wi...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010
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