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Reversible unfolding of infectious prion assemblies reveals the existence of an oligomeric elementary brick
Mammalian prions, the pathogens that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, propagate by self-perpetuating the structural information stored in the abnormally folded, aggregated conformer (PrP(Sc)) of the host-encoded prion protein (PrP(C)). To date, no structural model related to prion as...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5589264/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28880932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006557 |