Subcritical Water Hydrolysis Effectively Reduces the In Vitro Seeding Activity of PrPSc but Fails to Inactivate the Infectivity of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Prions.

The global outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has been attributed to the recycling of contaminated meat and bone meals (MBMs) as feed supplements. The use of MBMs has been prohibited in many countries; however, the development of a method for inactivating BSE prions could enable the...

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Main Authors: Yuichi Murayama, Miyako Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Okada, Eri Takata, Kentaro Masujin, Yoshifumi Iwamaru, Noriko Shimozaki, Tomoaki Yamamura, Takashi Yokoyama, Shirou Mohri, Yuji Tsutsumi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0144761&type=printable