Elucidating the structure of an infectious protein

1 Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, Göttingen, Germany, 2 Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, 3 University Medical Center Göttingen, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 4 CIMUS Biomedical Research Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela-IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 5 Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 6 Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada