Misfolding of Particular PrP and Susceptibility to Prion Infection

Pathogenesis of prion diseases in animals is associated with the misfolding of the cellular prion protein PrPC to the infectious form, PrPSc. We hypothesized that an animal’s susceptibility to prions is correlated with the propensity of an animal’s PrPC to adopt a β-sheet, PrPSc-like, conformation....

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Main Author: Khan, Muhammad Qasim
Other Authors: Chakrabartty, Avijit
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24589