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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.
The word prion, coined in 1982 by Stanley B. Prusiner, is short for âproteinaceous infectious particleâ derived from the words protein and infection, in reference to a prion's ability to self-propagate and transmit its conformation to other prions.f a prion enters a healthy organism, it induces existing, properly folded proteins to convert into the misfolded prion form. In this way, the prion acts as a template to guide the misfolding of more proteins into prion form.