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Interestingly, the mammalian PrP Sc is fundamentally different from yeast prions, since it lacks a Q/N-rich domain, indicating that distinct structural features are responsible for its ability to form self-propagating aggregates.
He has begun a five-year project to characterize interactions between infectious prions and soil particles and determine the extent to which infectivity is retained.
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.
The likely possibility was that the oligopeptide repeats could be interchangeable between different prions, leading to creation of novel chimeric prions.
Although yeast prions have been studied for almost ten years, very little is known about their biological significance.