Dynamic diagnosis of familial prion diseases supports the β2-α2 loop as a universal interference target.

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Published in PLoS One on April 28, 2011

Authors

Massimiliano Meli1, Maria Gasset, Giorgio Colombo

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1: Department of Computational Biology, Istituto di Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano, Italy.

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