Epigenetic dominance of prion conformers.

Although they share certain biological properties with nucleic acid based infectious agents, prions, the causative agents of invariably fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, sheep scrapie, and human Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, propagate by conforma...

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Main Authors: Eri Saijo, Hae-Eun Kang, Jifeng Bian, Kristi G Bowling, Shawn Browning, Sehun Kim, Nora Hunter, Glenn C Telling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-10-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3814339?pdf=render