Medicine. Prion strain mutation and selection

Science. 2010 May 28;328(5982):1111-2. doi: 10.1126/science.1190815.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Deer*
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Mutation
  • Polymorphism, Genetic
  • PrPC Proteins / chemistry*
  • PrPC Proteins / genetics
  • PrPSc Proteins / chemistry*
  • PrPSc Proteins / genetics
  • PrPSc Proteins / pathogenicity
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Folding
  • Selection, Genetic
  • Species Specificity
  • Wasting Disease, Chronic* / transmission

Substances

  • PrPC Proteins
  • PrPSc Proteins