Mouse-adapted ovine scrapie prion strains are characterized by different conformers of PrPSc

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 12119-12127

  Thackray, Alana M ^a   Hopkins, Lee ^a   Klein, Michael A ^b   Bujdoso, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANIDINE; ISOENZYME; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; IMMUNOASSAY; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRNP GENE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PRP 27-30 PROTEIN; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE;

MUS; OVIS; SCRAPIE PRION;

EID: 36049045861     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01434-07     Document Type: Article

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