PRNP Polyclonal Antibody

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].

AltPrP; ASCR; atal familial insomnia; CD230; CD230 antigen; CJD; Creutzfeld Jakob disease; Gerstmann-Strausler-Scheinker syndrome; GSS; KURU; Major prion protein; MGC26679; p27 30; PRIO_HUMAN; Prion protein; Prion related protein; PRIP; Prni; Prnp; PrP; PrP27 30; PrP27-30; PrP33 35C; PrP33-35C; PrPC; PrPSc; Sinc.