The Role of Proteins in Infectious Diseases

In many ways, it makes a lot of sense that you would be able to pass down this problematic. It's an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease, fatal familial insomnia. There's a gene that in under normal circumstances expresses a protein which is a normal protein. We don't know what it does, but we do know that it probably there has to do with copper ion transport into the cell.