PRION MUTATIONS. “The existence of prion strains raises questions of how hereditable biological information can be encrypted in a molecule other than nucleic acid. There is mounting evidence that the diversity of prions is enciphered in the conformation of the PrP(Sc) protein.” Conformation is simply the shape of the molecule.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022