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Prusiner has yet to show, for instance, that a protein sans nucleic acid can be infectious, and consequently, he has invoked the potential involvement of yet another agent in the disease process (although he insists it has no nucleic acid and calls it "Protein X").
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.
What, then, is one to make of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine awarded to neurologist Stanley Prusiner this week?
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."
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."