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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.
Read the full series here. The term prion was coined to mean proteinaceous infectious particle [Prusiner 1982]. Itâs usually pronounced PREE-on in the U.S. and PRY-on in the U.K. Prions are bits of misfolded protein that have the ability to spread by making other proteins misfold.