The shortest known prion protein gene allele occurs in goats, has only three octapeptide repeats and is non-pathogenic

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3173-3176

  Goldmann, Wilfred ^a   Chong, Angela ^a   Foster, James ^a   Hope, James ^a   Hunter, Nora ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAPEPTIDE; PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CODON; GENOTYPE; GOAT; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032437926     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-79-12-3173     Document Type: Article

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