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On the other hand, this apparent contradiction may indicate that prion formation is a more complicated process than we currently think and that it may involve many cellular factors.
The apparent contradiction between the interspecies transmission barriers of very homologous prion proteins and possible cross-seeding of aggregates by prion proteins with more limited homology represents an interesting biological problem.
Prusiner's boilerplate response to prion critics has been that if mad-cow disease or any of the other "prion diseases" is caused by a virus, then surely that virus would have been discovered by now.
Nevertheless, Pennington goes into some detail in assessing the prion theory of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (he argues that a nucleic acid is not also involved).
A remarkable feature of yeast prion proteins is their ability to produce distinct inherited “variants” of the prion.