A short segment of a prion protein plays a critical role in its susceptibility to cross-species prion transmission

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Jul 17, 2020, 10:20 am631 ptsHotTop
A short segment of an infectious protein known as a prion protein plays a crucial role in determining how susceptible the protein is to interspecies prion transmission, RIKEN researchers have discovered in a yeast study. This finding has important implications for neurodegenerative diseases in humans.

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