supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30130070,30571672 and 30500018);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(2001AA215391);the National Science and Technology Task Force Project(2003BA712A04-02);the EU Project(QLRT 2000 01441).
The most essential and crucial step during the pathogenesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy is the conformational change of cellular prion protein (PrP^C) to pathologic isoform (prp^Sc). A lot of data r...