Prion Protein Repeat Expansion Results in Increased Aggregation and Reveals Phenotypic Variability
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Prion protein repeat expansion results in increased aggregation and reveals phenotypic variability.
Mammalian prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders dependent on the prion protein PrP. Expansion of the oligopeptide repeats (ORE) found in PrP is associated with inherited prion diseases. Patients with ORE frequently harbor PrP aggregates, but other factors may contribute to pathology, as they often present with unexplained phenotypic variability. We created chimeric yeast-mammalia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular and Cellular Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0270-7306,1098-5549
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.02127-06