BSE and irradiation

["PD Dr. Peter P. Jaros" <jaros@uni-oldenburg.de>]

Normal and mutated prions are biochemically "normal prorteins".
Difference is a an altered three-dimensional folding of the amino acid
chain. To destroy mutated prions by irradiation means to destroy more or
less all proteins.

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PD Dr. Peter P. Jaros
University of Oldenburg
Dept. of Zoophysiology
PO Box 2503
D-26111 Oldenburg
Tel.: 0049-441-798-3399/3425
Fax : 0049-441-798-5605/3250
URL : http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/zoophysiologie
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