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Genetic risk factors for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neurobiology of Disease, 2020
Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders of mammals that share a central role for prion protein (PrP, gene PRNP) in their pathogenesis.
Emma Jones, Simon Mead
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A multiplexed, paired-pooled droplet digital PCR assay for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva

Scientific Reports, 2023
In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we developed a multiplexed, paired-pool droplet digital PCR (MP4) screening assay. Key features of our assay are the use of minimally processed saliva, 8-sample paired pools, and reverse-transcription droplet ...
Kaitlyn Wagner, Phil Fox, Elizabeth Gordon, Westen Hahn, Kenzie Olsen, Alex Markham, Dylan Buglewicz, Platon Selemenakis, Avery Lessard, Daniella Goldstein, Alissa Threatt, Luke Davis, Jake Miller-Dawson, Halie Stockett, Hailey Sanders, Kristin Rugh, Houston Turner, Michelle Remias, Maggie Williams, Jorge Chavez, Gabriel Galindo, Charlotte Cialek, Amanda Koch, Alex Fout, Bailey Fosdick, Bettina Broeckling, Mark D. Zabel   +26 more
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Pros and cons of a prion-like pathogenesis in Parkinson's disease [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disorder which affects widespread areas of the brainstem, basal ganglia and cerebral cortex.
Chapman Joab, Hilker, Ruediger, Brotchie, Jonathan M, Hilker, Rüdiger, Hilker Ruediger, Brotchie, Jonathan M., Joab Chapman, Ruediger Hilker, Chapman, Joab, Jonathan M Brotchie, Brotchie Jonathan M   +10 more
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Prions [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984
Prions are unprecedented infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases by an entirely novel mechanism. Prion diseases may present as genetic, infectious, or sporadic disorders, all of which involve modification of the prion protein (PrP).
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Proteinase K-Resistant Material in ARR/VRQ Sheep Brain Affected with Classical Scrapie Is Composed Mainly of VRQ Prion Protein [PDF]

, 2011
Classical scrapie is a prion disease in sheep and goats. In sheep, susceptibility to disease is genetically influenced by single amino acid substitutions.
Bossers, A., A. Bossers, T. Sklaviadis, I. Lantier, F. Lantier, L. J. M. van Keulen, Van Keulen, L., S. McCutcheon, Berthon, P., Lantier, Isabelle, van Keulen, L.J.M., van Zijderveld, F.G., P. Berthon, Lantier, Frédéric, F., Zijderveld, F.G., van, Jacobs, J.G., Keulen, L., Van, Langeveld, J.P.M., Lantier, I., H. Rezaei, J. P. M. Langeveld, Rezaei, Human, Sklaviadis, T., Berthon, Patricia, J. G. Jacobs, F. G. van Zijderveld, Lantier, F., McCutcheon, S., Rezaei, H.   +28 more
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Intra- and interspecies interactions between prion proteins and effects of mutations and polymorphisms [PDF]

, 2003
Recently, crystallization of the prion protein in a dimeric form was reported. Here we show that native soluble homogenous FLAG-tagged prion proteins from hamster, man and cattle expressed in the baculovirus system are predominantly dimeric.
Hundt, C., Weiss, S., Riley, M. L., Gauczynski, S., Leucht, C.   +4 more
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NT1-Tau Is Increased in CSF and Plasma of CJD Patients, and Correlates with Disease Progression

Cells, 2021
This study investigates the diagnostic and prognostic potential of different forms of tau in biofluids from patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
David Mengel, Tze How Mok, Akin Nihat, Wen Liu, Robert A. Rissman, Douglas Galasko, Henrik Zetterberg, Simon Mead, John Collinge, Dominic M. Walsh   +9 more
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Pathogenic mutations in the hydrophobic core of the human prion protein can promote structural instability and misfolding [PDF]

, 2010
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases, are caused by misfolding and aggregation of the prion protein PrP. These diseases can be hereditary in humans and four of the many disease-associated missense mutants of PrP are in the ...
Valerie Daggett, Daggett, Valerie, van der Kamp, Marc W, Marc W. van der Kamp   +3 more
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A field-deployable diagnostic assay for the visual detection of misfolded prions

Scientific Reports, 2022
Diagnostic tools for the detection of protein-misfolding diseases (i.e., proteopathies) are limited. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) facilitate sensitive diagnostic techniques via visual color change for the identification of a variety of targets. In parallel,
Peter R. Christenson, Manci Li, Gage Rowden, Marc D. Schwabenlander, Tiffany M. Wolf, Sang-Hyun Oh, Peter A. Larsen   +6 more
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Prions and Prion-like Proteins [PDF]

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014
Prions are self-replicating protein aggregates and are the primary causative factor in a number of neurological diseases in mammals. The prion protein (PrP) undergoes a conformational transformation leading to aggregation into an infectious cellular pathogen.
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