... Kirnbauer11 Laboratory of Viral Oncology, DIAID, Department of Dermatology, Medical University Vienna, Austria2 Institute of Virology, Technical University of Munich, Germany3 Laboratory of Experimental ... is composed of an ordered and closelyspaced assembly of capsomer subunits displaying a PrP peptide, to induce a humoral immune response specificto endogeous PrPC[18,28]. A peptide of nine amino ... sequences of the rat ⁄ mouse and rabbit ⁄ human PrP peptides encompassing residues 144–152 of the full-length prionproteins. The rodent peptide differs at position 145 (bold) from the sequence of the...