The protein-only hypothesis predicts that infectious mammalian prions are composed solely of PrPSc, a misfolded conformer of the normal prion protein, PrPC. However, protein-only PrPSc preparations la
Infectious extracts of scrapie-infected hamster brain enriched for scrapie-associated fibrils and scrapie amyloid protein (PrP) were partially denatured and subjected to either polyacrylamide gel elec