Breakage of PrP aggregates is essential for efficient autocatalytic propagation of misfolded prion protein

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 326, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 339-343

  Piening, Niklas ^a   Weber, Petra ^a   Giese, Armin ^a   Kretzschmar, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Amyloid; Breakage; Neurodegeneration; PMCA; Prion; Propagation; Sonication

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SAMPLE; ULTRASOUND;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; CRICETINAE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PRPSC PROTEINS;

CRICETINAE;

EID: 9944257937     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.11.039     Document Type: Article

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