Short and sweet: How glycans impact prion conversion, cofactor interactions, and cross-species transmission

PLoS Pathog. 2021 Jan 14;17(1):e1009123. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009123. eCollection 2021 Jan.

Authors

Patricia Aguilar-Calvo¹, Julia A Callender¹, Christina J Sigurdson^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
² Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
³ Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Amyloid / chemistry
Amyloid / metabolism*
Animals
Polysaccharides / chemistry
Polysaccharides / metabolism*
PrPC Proteins / metabolism*
Prion Diseases / metabolism
Prion Diseases / transmission*
Prions / chemistry
Prions / metabolism*
Species Specificity

Substances

Amyloid
Polysaccharides
PrPC Proteins
Prions

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