Isolation of a Defective Prion Mutant from Natural Scrapie.

It is widely known that prion strains can mutate in response to modification of the replication environment and we have recently reported that prion mutations can occur in vitro during amplification of vole-adapted prions by Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification on bank vole substrate (bvPMCA). He...

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Main Authors: Ilaria Vanni, Sergio Migliore, Gian Mario Cosseddu, Michele Angelo Di Bari, Laura Pirisinu, Claudia D'Agostino, Geraldina Riccardi, Umberto Agrimi, Romolo Nonno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-11-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5120856?pdf=render