recent publications

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  • Leclerc, E., Serban, H., Prusiner, S. B., Burton, D. R., Williamson, R. A. Copper induces conformational changes in the n-terminal part of cell-surface prpc Archives of Virology  2006 151:2103-2109  DOI:10.1007/s00705-006-0804-1  PMID:16791441
  • Safar, J. G., Scott, M., Monaghan, J., Deering, C., Didorenko, S., Vergara, J., Ball, H., Legname, G., Leclerc, E., Solforosi, L., Serban, H., Groth, D., et al. Measuring prions causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy or chronic wasting disease by immunoassays and transgenic mice Nature Biotechnology  2002 20:1147-1150  DOI:10.1038/nbt748  PMID:12389035
  • Peretz, D., Williamson, R. A., Matsunaga, Y., Serban, H., Pinilla, C., Bastidas, R. B., Rozenshteyn, R., James, T. L., Houghten, R. A., Cohen, F. E., Prusiner, S. B., Burton, D. R. A conformational transition at the n terminus of the prion protein features in formation of the scrapie isoform Journal of Molecular Biology  1997 273:614-622  DOI:10.1006/jmbi.1997.1328  PMID:9356250
  • Williamson, R. A., Peretz, D., Smorodinsky, N., Bastidas, R., Serban, H., Mehlhorn, I., DeArmond, S. J., Prusiner, S. B., Burton, D. R. Circumventing tolerance to generate autologous monoclonal antibodies to the prion protein Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  1996 93:7279-7282  DOI:10.1073/pnas.93.14.7279  PMID:8692983