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Prion strains viewed through the lens of cryo-EM

Mammalian prions are lethal transmissible pathogens that cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals. They consist of fibrils of misfolded, host-encoded prion protein (PrP) which propagate through templated protein polymerisation. Prion strains produce distinct clinicopathological p...

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Autores principales: Manka, Szymon W., Wenborn, Adam, Collinge, John, Wadsworth, Jonathan D. F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10113314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36028585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00441-022-03676-z