The folding, misfolding and aggregation of prions
Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie, which are all associated with the misfolding of the cellular form of the prion protein, PrPC, into the disease associated isoform, PrPSc....
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University of Warwick
2009
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511471 |