Prions on the move

EMBO Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1109-1117

  Weissmann, Charles ^a   Li, Jiali ^a   Mahal, Sukhvir P ^a   Browning, Shawn ^a,b  

^a Department of Infectology Scripps Florida ^*  (United States)

^b Cytonics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

mutation; quasi species; seeding hypothesis; selection; strain

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80255140360     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2011.192     Document Type: Review

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