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The interactions of heparin with various proteins in a domain-specific or charged-dependent manner provide key roles on many physiological and pathological processes. While GAG-PrP interactions had been previously reported, the specific glycan structures that facilitate interactions with different regions of PrP and their binding kinetics have not been systematically investigated. In this study, we performed direct binding surface plasmon resonance (SPR) assay to characterize the kinetics of heparin binding to four recombinant murine PrP constructs including full length (M23\u2013230), a deletion mutant lacking the four histidine-containing octapeptide repeats (M23\u2013230 \u039459\u201390), the isolated N-terminal domain (M23\u2013109), and the isolated C-terminal domain (M90\u2013230). 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