Prions Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Prions, including details on mad cow disease, scrapie, cjd.

Volume 3 (2007), Issue 7 (July)

1. Identification of a proteinase K resistant protein for use as an internal positive control marker in PrP Western blotting.
   Res Vet Sci, 83(2): 157-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. A non-Q/N-rich prion domain of a foreign prion, [Het-s], can propagate as a prion in yeast.
   Mol Cell, 27(1): 67-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Experimental scrapie in 'plt' mice: an assessment of the role of dendritic-cell migration in the pathogenesis of prion diseases.
   J Gen Virol, 88: 2353-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Prions of fungi: inherited structures and biological roles.
   Nat Rev Microbiol, 5(8): 611-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Prion protein repeat expansion results in increased aggregation and reveals phenotypic variability.
   Mol Cell Biol, 27(15): 5445-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Prion protein facilitates hormone-induced differentiation of mammary gland epithelial cells.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 360(4): 746-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Branched chain mechanism of polymerization and ultrastructure of prion protein amyloid fibrils.
   FEBS J, 274(15): 3756-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Detection of misfolded prion protein in blood with conformationally sensitive peptides.
   Transfusion, 47(8): 1418-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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