Identification of cDNAs from Japanese pufferfish (Fugu rubripes) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) coding for homologues to tetrapod prion proteins
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- 19 February 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 538 (1-3) , 96-100
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00149-2
Abstract
We identified cDNAs coding for homologues to tetrapod prion proteins (PrPs) in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Japanese pufferfish (Fugu rubripes), which were termed ‘similar to PrPs’ (stPrPs). Bes...Keywords
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