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Laboratory evidence has demonstrated a molecular barrier against such cross-species infection, based on the failure of abnormal cervid prions to efficiently convert normal human prions to the infectious state.
For instance, the diseases that allegedly are caused by prions come in a few dozen different strains, the same way that dogs come in different breeds.
They noted that both prion proteins contain an oligopeptide repeat QGGYQ in close proximity to Q/N-rich sequences and examined the functional significance of the repeats for aggregation and maintenance of the prions.
He got his share of bad press, for which I take--and am given--entirely too much credit (read my December 1986 feature story in Discover by clicking ). By 1985, when Prusiner's own papers were still suggesting that the prion hypothesis was at best a long shot, he won a $4-million congressional award "to determine the structure of prions and how they cause disease."
This factor is specifically required for maintenance of all known prions within generations and probably is not involved in prion formation (i.e.