Assertion: prion's form | /r/HasProperty | abnormal
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text: Most prions occur in a normal, harmless form, but there are abnormal or infectious forms.
text: One "C" form of PrP is the normal, or as geneticists call it, the wild-type form and the other "C" form of PrP is a mutant one.
text: Further work using magnetic resonance imaging and x-ray crystallography should help us understand the key structural elements that allow the prion to co-opt the normal cellular form into the disease-producing variant.
text: The CPEB proteins developed into two different forms, a regular protein and a misshapen one.
text: Prions are composed largely, if not entirely, of an altered form (an abnormal isoform) of a normal cellular protein.
text: They come in two forms, he found, with different shapes: a normal uninfectious form that all animals and people have that is particularly abundant in the brain (it is encoded by a prion protein gene) and a more stable disease-causing form.