TY - JOUR AU - Birkmann, E. AU - Riesner, D. TI - Prion infection - seeded fibrillization or more? JO - Prion VL - 2 SN - 1933-6896 CY - Austin, Tex. PB - Landes Bioscience M1 - PreJuSER-3799 SP - 67 - 72 PY - 2008 N1 - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012 AB - The prion infection is a conversion of host encoded prion protein (PrP) from its cellular isoform PrPC into the pathological and infectious isoform PrPSc; the conversion process was investigated by in vitro studies using recombinant and cellular PrP and natural PrPSc. We present a brief summary of the results determined with our in vitro conversion system and the derived mechanistic models. We describe well characterized intermediates and precursor states during the conversion process, kinetic studies of spontaneous and seeded fibrillogenesis and the impact of the membrane environment. KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000261469000007 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/3799 ER -