The Structural Architecture of an Infectious Mammalian Prion Using Electron Cryomicroscopy

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Vázquez Fernández, Ester ^a,b   Vos, Matthijn R ^c   Afanasyev, Pavel ^d,e   Cebey, Lino ^a,b   Sevillano, Alejandro M ^f   Vidal, Enric ^g   Rosa, Isaac ^f   Renault, Ludovic ^a,d   Ramos, Adriana ^f,k   Peters, Peter J ^e   Fernández, José Jesús ^h   van Heel, Marin ^d,i,j   Young, Howard S ^a   Requena, Jesús R ^f   Wille, Holger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^g IRTA   (Spain)

^h CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

ⁱ BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ENERGY AND MATERIALS CNPEM   (Brazil)

^j IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; AMYLOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SINGLE PARTICLE ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; ANIMAL; BOVINE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; HUMANS; PRPC PROTEINS; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 84989868977     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005835     Document Type: Article

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