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Prions are a disease-causing form of a normal protein called cellular prion protein (PrPC) that is located primarily on the surface of central nervous system cells but also in other tissues of the body in mammals.
In 1982 he and his colleagues isolated a protein that was capable of transmitting infection but, unlike all other known pathogens, contained neither DNA nor RNA. Prusiner's term for this protein, prion, was derived from the phrase proteinaceous infectious particle.priÂ·on/ (priÂ´on) any of several transmissible forms of the core of prion protein that cause a group of neurodegenerative diseases. Prions differ in structure from normal prion protein, lack detectable nucleic acid, and do not elicit an immune response.