Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious particle. Coined by American neurologist and biochemist Stanley B. Prusiner in 1982.
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