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This observation is very intriguing, especially in light of a recent finding that prion conformation of some proteins is required for formation of prions by the other proteins.
University of Wisconsin soil science professor Joel Pedersen has discovered that abnormally folded prions stick to the surface of some soil types, such as clay, resisting environmental and chemical damage.
We do not know the functions of the majority of proteins that can exist as prions.
In the past year, Science and Nature , the two most distinguished scientific journals, have published three major papers suggesting that the causative agents of these diseases are not prions, and that Prusiner's 15 years of prion research is simply wrong.
This is what makes Prusiner's hypothesis so radical: Prions would be the only proteins on the planet that reproduce--not to mention infect and kill animals--and thus the only known exceptions to the rules of the Crick-Watson paradigm of molecular biology.