Our "Atomic" friends have brought as another patent for a TSE test procedure. Do remember, they were the first ones to develop a rapid BSE test kit.
Dr. Jean-Phyllippe Deslys, et al. (inventors) have developed a testing procedure to determine TSEs when they are in the subacute stage?
Perhaps a subacute stage that may never, ever develop into neurological disorders like BSE, CWD or vCJD - but
a test to find more malformed proteins - and thus, have more animals destroyed
just in case they might be bio-accumulating and transferring radio-active materials (like plutonium, depleted uranium, strontium,...) to various locations in the body (like the bones used in meat and bone meal, or the brain, or kidneys).
USA patent
7,097,997 can be found at the USA patent office website. This patent was granted August 29, 2006. The abstract reads:
Method for diagnosing a transmissible spongiform subacute encephalyopathy caused by an unconventional transmissible agent strain in a biological sample.
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for diagnosing a transmissible spongiform subacute encephalopathy (TSSE) caused by an unconventional transmissible agent (UTA) or prion. The method involves treating a sample suspected of containing a prion with proteinase K for a time and under conditions that completely degrade normal prion protein (Prp-sen), but which only partially digest abnormal prion protein (PrP-res) so that all or some of the octapeptide motif repeats comprising P (H/Q) GG(-T) WGQ (SEQ ID NO: 1) in the abnormal prion protein (Prp-res) are retained.
Now the healthy prion protein is a cuproglycoprotein. It binds copper.
And, it binds copper, almost entirely, at the octapeptide motif repeats.
The amount of copper attached depends on the number of repeats.
So the French Atomic Energy Commission's (Commissariate a l'Energie Atomic, in French) test will slowly unravel the undigested portion of the prion octapeptide motif repeat region and determine the amount of (radio-active) metals attached - in relationship to copper (if any copper, at all).
This test deals with not only the octapeptide repeat region of the "so-called infectious prion"; but with any other similar protein which may malform in a similar manner, at their own copper binding region. The addition of the word OR between unconventional transmissible agent OR prion.... effectively covers their rears for the eventuality that TSEs will not be blamed on "prions" but on the "unconventional transmissible agent" which screws these proteins up.
Copper has been found, by Dr. DR Brown of Bath University, UK, et al. to bind further up in the healthy prion, as well. Brown was able to create a very similar prion protein using manganese. So the question is: what are the differences between the prion with non-radiological metal attached, as compared to a radio-active metal, or some variation there-of.
The test above, appears to me, to be unraveling the normally copper bound region using various levels of protease K and differing amounts of time of exposure to it. This technique will allow for the "unraveling" of digestible portions of the octapeptide repeats that contain copper, and maybe even other metals? The tests main objective is to find the elusive "agent" that will prevent the unravelling from taking place, and that "agent" is the little bast*** we have all been looking for.
This contamination has been brought to us all, thanks to "friendly-fire" and industrialization. Can we please start cleaning this Planet up, now.