Efficient inhibition of prion replication by PrP-Fc2 suggests that the prion is a PrPSc oligomer

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 345, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1243-1251

  Masel, Joanna ^a   Genoud, Nicolas ^b   Aguzzi, Adriano ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

amyloid formation; kinetics; nucleated polymerization; replication mechanism; therapeutics

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GROWTH RATE; INCUBATION TIME; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 11844286389     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.10.088     Document Type: Article

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