{"id":457,"date":"2010-04-15T23:35:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T06:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-04-15T23:35:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T06:35:55","slug":"prion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/2010\/04\/15\/prion\/","title":{"rendered":"Prion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have noted in class earlier, I wanted to do something microbiology related mainly because I took MB 230H last term. After flipping through some pages from my textbook, a familiar section caught my attention in the virus chapter: prions. These are not viruses, but they can cause diseases. The interesting thing about prions is that they are essentially free-floating proteins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Normal Prion Protein\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/18\/PrPwildtypestructure.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, that&#8217;s the normal prion protein in humans. There are many variations in the protein data bank, but I haven&#8217;t chosen one yet.<\/p>\n<p>Yay, I&#8217;m making progress!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have noted in class earlier, I wanted to do something microbiology related mainly because I took MB 230H last term. After flipping through some pages from my textbook, a familiar section caught my attention in the virus chapter: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/2010\/04\/15\/prion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}