Question

What is the prion that causes bovine spongiform encephelopathy?

Answer 1

Currently, the most accepted theory is that the agent is a modified form of a normal protein known as prion protein.

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Answer 2

Prions composed of the prion protein (PrP) are hypothesized as the cause of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), including scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle (commonly known as "mad cow disease"), and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in ...