{"id":8106,"date":"2024-11-13T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2024-11-13T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:42:47","slug":"a-twisted-protein-sheds-light-on-chronic-wasting-disease-in-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/13\/a-twisted-protein-sheds-light-on-chronic-wasting-disease-in-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"A twisted protein sheds light on chronic wasting disease in deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/chronic-wasting-disease-deer-prion\">Science News<\/a> The misfolded proteins responsible for a fatal neurological illness in deer have a twist. The first detailed structure of an infectious prion that causes chronic wasting disease, or CWD, reveals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00401-024-02813-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">features that could help guide vaccine development<\/a>\u00a0or explain why the illness hasn\u2019t yet made the leap to people, researchers report October 24 in\u00a0<em>Acta Neuropathologica<\/em>. One such feature is a 180-degree twist between two sections of the prion. In versions engineered to infect rodents in order to study the disease, that twist doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/chronic-wasting-disease-deer-prion\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"DXYWW koNsz Z\">DXYWW koNsz Z<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science News The misfolded proteins responsible for a fatal neurological illness in deer have a twist. The first detailed structure of an infectious prion that causes chronic wasting disease, or CWD, reveals\u00a0features that could help guide vaccine development\u00a0or explain why the illness hasn\u2019t yet made the leap to people, researchers report October 24 in\u00a0Acta Neuropathologica. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}