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Product Characteristics:
Aliases: Alternative prion protein, major prion protein antibody, AltPrP antibody, ASCR antibody, CD230 antibody, CD230 antigen antibody, CJD antibody, GSS antibody, KURU antibody, Major prion protein antibody, p27 30 antibody, PRIO_HUMAN antibody, Prion protein antibody, Prion related protein antibody, PRIP antibody, PRNP antibody, PrP antibody, PrP27 30 antibody, PrP27-30 antibody, PrP33-35C antibody, PrPC antibody, PrPSc antibody, Sinc antibody
Target Information: The protein encoded by this gene is a membrane glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoprotein that tends to aggregate into rod-like structures. The encoded protein contains a highly unstable region of five tandem octapeptide repeats. This gene is found on chromosome 20, approximately 20 kbp upstream of a gene which encodes a biochemically and structurally similar protein to the one encoded by this gene. Mutations in the repeat region as well as elsewhere in this gene have been associated with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, Gerstmann-Straussler disease, Huntington disease-like 1, and kuru. An overlapping open reading frame has been found for this gene that encodes a smaller, structurally unrelated protein, AltPrp. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2012]