The malignant Sc form of these entities takes its name from "scrapie," a degenerative disease in sheep that these are responsible for.
The malignant Sc form of these entities takes its name from "scrapie," a degenerative disease in sheep that these are responsible for. The term transmissible spongiform encephalopathies refers to all maladies they cause, which includes the rare human fatal familial insomnia. Notably contradicting the "central dogma" of molecular biology, they are also responsible for the Papua New Guinea epidemic of kuru, GSS, as well as Mad Cow Disease. Best known for causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, for 10 points, name these infectious, mis-folded proteins.
The malignant Sc form of these entities takes its name from "scrapie," a degenerative disease in sheep that these are responsible for.
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