Name
prion protein
Synonyms
KURU, ASCR, PrP, PrP33-35C, GSS, PRIP, AltPrP, PrP27-30, PRP, CJD, p27-30, PrPc, CD230 [provided by Ensembl, GRCh37]
Location
chr20:4,666,882-4,682,236
(forward strand)
Summary
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, Nov 2014]
Biotype
Protein coding
Ensembl gene ID
ENSG00000171867
NCBI gene ID
5621
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