Emergence of prions selectively resistant to combination drug therapy.

Prions are unorthodox infectious agents that replicate by templating misfolded conformations of a host-encoded glycoprotein, collectively termed PrPSc. Prion diseases are invariably fatal and currently incurable, but oral drugs that can prolong incubation times in prion-infected mice have been devel...

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Main Authors: Cassandra M Burke, Kenneth M K Mark, Judit Kun, Kathryn S Beauchemin, Surachai Supattapone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-05-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008581