Prion disease (CJD / kuru / scrapie)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Neurodegenerative Disease subtree

Prusiner protein-only hypothesis (Nobel 1997): PrPSc templates conversion of PrPC; sCJD, fCJD, vCJD, kuru; transmissible without nucleic acid.

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