Prion protein of 106 residues creates an artificial transmission barrier for prion replication in transgenic mice

Cell

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 869-878

  Supattapone, Surachai ^a   Bosque, Patrick ^a   Muramoto, Tamaki ^a,b   Wille, Holger ^a   Aagaard, Claus ^a,c   Peretz, David ^a   Nguyen, Hoang Oanh B ^a   Heinrich, Cornelia ^a   Torchia, Marilyn ^a   Safar, Jiri ^a   Cohen, Fred E ^a   DeArmond, Stephen J ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a   Scott, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033582935     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80596-6     Document Type: Article

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