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MCKINLEY, Michael P.

MCKINLEY, Michael P.

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source United States Department of State · br.usembassy.gov · Public domain

1982 CE

#10842

Identification of a protein that purifies with the Scrapie prion.

Research with the biochemist Bolton enabled Prusiner to discover and characterize the specific protein causing prion disease. This paper was dated December 24, 1982. Nearly simultaneously, Prusiner and the same co-aut…