6/1/2023 0 Comments Cooking madness level 77-2The word prion derives from "proteinaceous infectious particle". It is not known what causes the normal protein to misfold, but the abnormal three-dimensional structure is suspected of conferring infectious properties, collapsing nearby protein molecules into the same shape. ![]() They characterize several fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases in humans and many other animals. Prions are misfolded proteins with the ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the same protein. ![]()
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