Amyloid protein of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (Indiana kindred) is an 11 kd fragment of prion protein with an N-terminal glycine at codon 58.

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Published in EMBO J on March 01, 1991

Authors

F Tagliavini1, F Prelli, J Ghiso, O Bugiani, D Serban, S B Prusiner, M R Farlow, B Ghetti, B Frangione

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1: Department of Pathology, New York University Medical Center, NY 10016.

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