First report of structural characteristics and polymorphisms of the prion protein gene in raccoon dogs: the possibility of prion disease-resistance

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• who: Byung-Hoon Jeong from the University of Sydney, Australia have published the research work: First report of structural characteristics and polymorphisms of the prion protein gene in raccoon dogs: The possibility of prion disease-resistance, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
• what: The authors investigated genetic polymorphisms of the PRNP gene of 87 raccoon dogs inhabiting the Republic of Korea.
• how: To evaluate the potential amyloidogenic propensity of the substitution the authors carried out in silico analysis using AMYCO.
• future: Study is needed to validate the effect of alterations of hydrogen_bonds and . . .
  

   

  

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