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Prusiner's hypothesis is that fatal brain maladies such as mad-cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are caused not by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or some other mundane agent but by something startlingly new that he has discovered--mutant, rampaging proteins known as "prions," short for "proteinaceous infectious particles."
Until recently, we were ignorant of the existence of proteins facilitating water movement [ 1, 2], although the existence of proteinaceous water channels in plants had been suggested long ago, and received strong experimental support a decade ago [ 3, 4].
Trafficking between the nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments is mediated by nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) [ 1 2 ] . These large, proteinaceous structures are embedded in a nuclear envelope (NE) pore formed by fusion of the inner and outer nuclear membranes.
Embryos develop in a proteinaceous matrix extruded by the adult female, and hatch as second-stage larvae (L2) that move through the soil and invade the plant root.