Assertion: prion | /r/MadeOf | no nucleic acid
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text: Prions are not visible microscopically, contain no nucleic acid, and are highly resistant to destruction.
text: Some researchers believe that a prion consists of proteins without nucleic acids because a prion is too small to contain a nucleic acid and because a prion is not destroyed by agents that digest nucleic acids.
text: Prions are infectious particles that contain no nucleic acids, and viroids are small plant pathogens that do not encode proteins.
text: They contain no nucleic acid.
text: They contain no nucleic acid.
text: Once it was discovered that prions were the real cause of TSEs and that prions contained no nucleic acid, the term virions was discarded and these particles were renamed prions.