Sunday, January 4, 2009

Virino Hypothesis.


Prion proteins are believed to be viruses.Its sounds silly,No but there are some facts which supports this hypothesis,
# Variants in Prion proteins as similar to virus variants due to mutations.
# Genetic material may be very minute in order to detect in Prions.

2 comments:

Ahmed Rashid on January 4, 2009 at 12:49 AM said...

But there is one limitation of this theory is that the Prion proteins can't induce immune response.

Ahmed Rashid on January 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM said...

Prions cant evoke immune response.But HERV also shows the same property.May be HERV play importnat role in prion diseaes.In other words virino hypothesis can acceptable.

 

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