Insoluble wild-type and protease-resistant mutant prion protein in brains of patients with inherited prion disease

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-64

  Gabizon, Ruth ^a   Telling, Glenn ^b   Meiner, Zeev ^a   Halimi, Michele ^a   Kahana, Irit ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^b,c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUTATION; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FIBROBLASTS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LIBYA; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; POINT MUTATION; PRIONS; SKIN; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0030069023     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0196-59     Document Type: Article

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