Susceptibility of sheep for scrapie as assessed by in vitro conversion of nine naturally occurring variants of PrP

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1407-1414

  Bossers, Alex ^a   De Vries, Ruth ^a   Smits, Mari A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CODON; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CODON; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PRPC PROTEINS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033982338     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.3.1407-1414.2000     Document Type: Article

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