Trancking down the cause of mad cow disease
By blueinha
@blueinha (18)
South Korea
October 10, 2008 8:53am CST
The cause of diseases such as BSE in cattle and Creutzfeld-Jakob desease in humans is a prion protein. This protein attaches to cell membranes by way of an anchor made of sugar and lipid components anchor. The anchoring of the prions seems to hace a strong influence on the transformation of the noemal form of the protein into its pathogenic form, which causes scarpie and mad cow disease.
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