A short segment of a prion protein plays a critical role in its susceptibility to cross-species prion transmission
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 09:20
in Biology & Nature
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.