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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Prions > Prion Proteins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Membrane Proteins > Membrane Glycoproteins > GPI-Linked Proteins > Prion Proteins
... > Carbohydrates > Glycoconjugates > Glycoproteins > Membrane Glycoproteins > GPI-Linked Proteins > Prion Proteins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Glycoproteins > Membrane Glycoproteins > GPI-Linked Proteins > Prion Proteins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Membrane Proteins > Lipid-Linked Proteins > GPI-Linked Proteins > Prion Proteins

Preferred term

Prion Proteins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Antigen, CD230
  • CD230 Antigen
  • Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Protein
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Protein
  • Fatal Familial Insomnia Protein
  • Major Prion Protein
  • Prion Protein
  • Prion Protein, Major
  • PrP Proteins

Scope note

  • Membrane glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoproteins that may aggregate into rod-like structures. The prion protein (PRNP) gene is characterized by five TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES that encode a highly unstable protein region of five octapeptide repeats. Mutations in the repeat region and elsewhere in this gene are associated with CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER DISEASE; Huntington disease-like 1, and KURU.

History note

  • 2017: for PRION PROTEINS use PRIONS 1991-2016

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000072002

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