Prions and Encephalopathies
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A prion, also known as PrP, is a specific protein, normally found in human and animal tissue. This protein, however, has the ability to change its folding pattern. This alternative folding pattern is known to cause degenerative diseases in various mammal species. Examples of such diseases are chronic wasting disease in elk and deer, "scrapie" in domesticated sheep, "mad cow disease", transmissible mink encephalopathy, as well as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Autopsies of diseased individuals find concentrated amounts of the prions in nervous system tissues and tissues of the lymphoreticular system.1
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Edited by student of Joan Slonczewski for BIOL 238 Microbiology, 2009, Kenyon College.