Assertion: prion | /r/HasProperty | prpsc
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text: Various studies have indicated prions (PrPSC) that infect sheep and goats with the fatal transmissible encephalopathy known as scrapie, are able to persist in soil for years without losing their pathogenic activity.
text: The infectious isoform of PrP, known as PrPSc, or simply the prion, is able to convert normal PrPC proteins into the infectious isoform by changing their conformation, or shape; this, in turn, alters the way the proteins interconnect.
text: Assuming the soil was contaminated with prions (PrPSC) from feces or birth fluids, then potentially the sheep would become infected.
text: Prions (PrPSc) are shed from sheep and goats in birth fluids, feces and other excrement.
text: (MBM) contaminated with an infectious protein named prion (PrPSc).
text: * Normal proteins (PrPc) have a helical shaped before being transformed by the prions (PrPSc)
text: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by unconventional infectious agents, known as prions (PrPSc).