Rogue Proteins

[Kritters]

Because of Jonsi's post and consequent focus (mine) on proteins, I let my fingers do their thing and googled, "Rogue protein". Pow. Right off the bat:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/5007.php (mad cow is caused by rogue protein)

http://news.healingwell.com/?p=news1&id=533626 (rogue protein may be key to cystic fibrosis)

http://technocrat.net/d/2006/3/21/1499 (alzheimers)

Huh? Huh? And these were my first hits.

Well, this is just very interesting to me regarding proteins. As I said, I'm going to research this venue if for no other reason than my own curiosity. Any valid information welcome that I can't find from googling already.

Kritts

[Kritters]

http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/prions


"Prions are infectious proteinaceous particles or, more simply, proteins that lack nucleic acid. They were discovered by Stanley Prusiner, who received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1997 for his work on them. "

[color=green]Looks like this will be a very complex thread, which is why I started a new one. [/color

If no one else is interested in persuing it, I'll do it on my own and will be glad to report back with the information which may be relevant to Morgs.

Kritts

[chester]

In trying to come up with a photo of this stuff... i found this....way over my head. If you can understand this kritters...God bless you. http://www.mad-cow.org/prion_structu...r/gallery.html Lets hope Steve gets his high tech puter and jumps on the band wagon again.

[Kritters]

Goodness gracious no, Nancy

I will say how beautiful nature is even when it's mutant, though, at least how beautifully illustrated. Also the gorgeous colors in these things I see on the internet is just amazing. I'm not a microbiologist but I am tempted to return to school to become one. At this point, I do nothing else with my life anyway, so I might as well do something useful and interesting! so what if I'm 85 by the time I get my degree

What I take from all this is that it's more simplistic than scientists want us to realize with all the names, numbers and letters they give to distinguish classes of organisms. Of course, I'm not so ignorant I don't realize how incredibly complex it is either. Microscopic creatures go about doing their organic thing, and when a toxin or unbalanced critter comes along and gets involved in the dna or rna it changes things. You know, people just shouldn't eat meat of any kind (and I eat meat....rather ate meat) Birds, swine, beef, fish. Eat them well done and you get no nutritional value anyway, and eat them rare and catch the parasites they carry. Now that beef growers are feeding the cows other dead cows that ate other dead critters, we are the recipients of the gift of the bugs. And if you don't eat them but just inhale the airborne microscopic particles they leave, you get the gift anyway. The way parasites morph, nothing is safe. Bottom line....THEY adapt and live happily ever after. WE on the other hand don't fare as well. THEY know what they're doing. WE do not. Bottom line, the proteins change because they are affected by the parasites and the parasites take them over. The dna or rna is no longer what it originally was because it's inhabited. Looking for love in all our wrong places, so to speak.

Bet you're sorry you posted to me now! LOl. anyway, I hope I have dispelled any silly thoughts anyone on this forum may have that I have any understanding or capability of making sense out of it all. My thoughts are strange. I am strange.



But I'm going to keep on being strange and learning as much as I can to make sense of it all.

Take care, Nancy and keep up your good work.

Kritts (who wonders why there isn't some progressive, valiant and altruistic research scientist to join this forum and give us some hints)