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New in vivo evidence

Posted by loma on 15 Nov 2007 at 08:34 GMT

evidence gained by means of in vitro experiments for a cofactor role of RNA in TSE
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Surachai Supattapone and coworkers have provided with their very recent article in J. Biol. Chem. (Oct 2007; doi:10.1074/jbc.M704447200) a sequel of the work cited in reference [5]. Their histochemical findings indicate that RNA molecules are associated with HaPrP aggregates in the brains of scrapie-infected hamsters.