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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology  12, 567 - 568 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nsmb0705-567

Structural clues to prion mysteries

Susan W Liebman

The author is in the Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.
suel@uic.edu

Four recent studies on the molecular architecture of amyloid fibrils made from different prion protein segments suggest commonalities among these fibrils. These studies also shed light on the structural distinctions between prion strains and the mechanism of fiber formation.

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