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Genesis of Mammalian Prions: From Non-infectious Amyloid Fibrils to a Transmissible Prion Disease
The transmissible agent of prion disease consists of a prion protein in its abnormal, β-sheet rich state (PrP(Sc)), which is capable of replicating itself according to the template-assisted mechanism. This mechanism postulates that the folding pattern of a newly recruited polypeptide chain accuratel...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228811/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22144901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002419 |