Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are associated with the accumulation in infected tissues of a disease-associated form of a host-encoded protein, the prion protein (PrP). Contrary to the normal form of the protein, this form of PrP is partially resistant to protease digestion (...
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