Prion Strains and Amyloid Polymorphism Influence Phenotypic Variation
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Prion Strains and Amyloid Polymorphism Influence Phenotypic Variation
The deposition of protein aggregates is a unifying feature of a large class of diseases known as protein conformational disorders, which includes Alzheimer disease and prion diseases. One of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of such diseases is the phenomenon of amyloid polymorphism, whereby a single diseaseassociated protein forms different types of ordered aggregate structures. This i...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Pathogens
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1553-7374
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004328