Prions And Retroviruses - An Unholy Alliance? - Expression Of Endogenous Retroviruses Is Changed After Prion Infection
In work originating from the Bavarian Research Cooperation Prions (FORPRION), which ended in 2007, a team led by the scientist Prof. Dr. Christine Leib-Mösch has been able to show that prion proteins may activate endogenous retroviruses in infected brain cells.
