Mutation and selection of prions

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Weissmann, Charles ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; SCRAPIE PRION PROTEIN; SWAINSONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PRNP PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL PANEL ASSAY; CONFORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLYCOSYLATION; HOMOZYGOTE; HOST SELECTION; INCUBATION TIME; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MISFOLDING CYCLIC AMPLIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PRION DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84861217341     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002582     Document Type: Article

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