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 5 (2009), Issue 4 (April)

1. A systematic survey identifies prions and illuminates sequence features of prionogenic proteins.
   Cell, 137(1): 146-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Aggregating knowledge about prions and amyloid.
   Cell, 137(1): 20-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Decontamination of prion protein (BSE301V) using a genetically engineered protease.
   J Hosp Infect, 72(1): 65-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Folding kinetics of the human prion protein probed by temperature jump.
   Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(14): 5651-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Cells expressing anchorless prion protein are resistant to scrapie infection.
   J Virol, 83(9): 4469-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The number of octapeptide repeat affects the expression and conversion of prion protein.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 382(4): 715-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Heterologous prion interactions are altered by mutations in the prion protein Rnq1p.
   J Mol Biol, 388(3): 583-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Immunohistochemical study of PrP(Sc) distribution in neural and extraneural tissues of two cats with feline spongiform encephalopathy.
   BMC Vet Res, 5: 11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Failure to detect the presence of prions in the uterine and gestational tissues from a Gravida with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
   Am J Pathol, 174(5): 1602-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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