Prions, prions, prions /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Springer, [1996]
Series:Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 207.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Human prion diseases and neurodegeneration
  • Fatal familial insomnia and familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease : a tale of two diseases with the same genetic mutation
  • Human prion disease and human prion protein disease
  • Prion strains
  • Structures of prion proteins and conformational models for prion diseases
  • The folding intermediate concept of prion protein formation and conformational links to infectivity
  • Cell biology of the prion protein
  • Transgenetics and gene targeting in studies of prion diseases
  • Transgenetics and neuropathology of prion diseases
  • Evidence for two prions in yeast : [URE3] and [PSI]