recently been proposed as a treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), including a new
variant CJD which is linked to contamination of food by the bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) agent. The present study investigated possible mechanisms of action
of quinacrine on prions. The ability of quinacrine to interact with and to reduce the protease
resistance of PrP peptide aggregates and PrPres of human and animal origin were …