Adaptation and selection of prion protein strain conformations following interspecies transmission of transmissible mink encephalopathy

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 5542-5547

  Bartz, Jason C ^a,b   Bessen, Richard A ^b   Mckenzie, Debbie ^a   Marsh, Richard F ^a   Aiken, Judd M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ALEUTIAN MINK DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS; MINK; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PRPSC PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SERIAL PASSAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034079165     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.12.5542-5547.2000     Document Type: Article

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