The role of PrP in health and disease.

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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) such as scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle or Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) in humans, are caused by an infectious agent designated prion. The "protein only" hypothesis states that the prion consists partly or entirely of a conformational isoform of the normal host protein PrPc and...

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