Prion (disambiguation)

Prions are misfolded proteins which characterize several fatal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and many other animals.

Prion may also refer to:

Science

• Fungal prion, a prion that infects fungal hosts
• Prion protein, the human gene encoding for the major prion protein PrP (for prion protein)
• Prion diseases, a group of progressive and invariably fatal symptoms affecting the brain (encephalopathies) and nervous system of many animals
• Prion pruritus, an intense itching during the prodromal period of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
• Prion pseudoknot, a predicted RNA pseudoknot structure found in prion protein mRNA

Other uses

• Prion (bird)
  • List of prions
• Prion Humour Classics, a series of novels published by Prion Books in the UK
• Prion Island, located in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia
• National Prion Clinic (UK), a British specialist prion disease clinic
• Eran Prion (born 1974), Israeli musician and music producer