2021-04-16Zeitschriftenartikel
Stability of BSE infectivity towards heat treatment even after proteolytic removal of prion protein
Langeveld, Jan P.M.; Balkema-Buschmann, Anne; Becher, Dieter; Thomzig, Achim; Nonno, Romolo; Olivier, Andréoletti; Davidse, Aart; Di Bari, Michele A.; Pirisinu, Laura; Agrimi, Umberto; Groschup, Martin H.; Beekes, Michael; Shih, Jason
The unconventional infectious agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are prions. Their infectivity co-appears with PrPSc, aberrant depositions of the host’s cellular prion protein (PrPC). Successive ...