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Prion-like domains as epigenetic regulators, scaffolds for subcellular organization, and drivers of neurodegenerative disease

Brain Research, 2016
Key challenges faced by all cells include how to spatiotemporally organize complex biochemistry and how to respond to environmental fluctuations. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae harnesses alternative protein folding mediated by yeast prion ...
Z. March, O. King, J. Shorter
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Evidence for different seeding activities of misfolded tau in classical and rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease

Brain Pathology, EarlyView.
The study analyzed the seeding activity of misfolded tau protein in Alzheimer's disease and rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease patients and provides evidence for the existence of different tau assemblies supported by differences in cellular toxicity and morphology of thioflavin T‐positive real‐time quaking‐induced conversion products.
Matthias Schmitz, Katrin Thüne, Anna‐Lisa Fischer, Peter Hermann, Maria Cramm, Leonie Sheila Kadel, Wiebke Möbius, Jakob Matschke, Tayyaba Saleem, Neelam Younas, Saima Zafar, Hermann Altmeppen, Markus Glatzel, Inga Zerr   +13 more
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Dogs Never Gets Prion Diseases. The Entropic Landscape Analysis of Prion Proteins Answers Why. [PDF]

, 2009
The Entropic Landscape Analysis was applied to the prion protein sequences of various mammals in order to detect potential sites of variants that would be responsible for the susceptibility of prion disease infection.
Kentaro Onizuka
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On the statistical mechanics of prion diseases

, 2001
We simulate a two-dimensional, lattice based, protein-level statistical mechanical model for prion diseases (e.g., Mad Cow disease) with concommitant prion protein misfolding and aggregation.
A. Coghlan, A. Slepoy, C. I. Lasmézas, D. J. Stekel, D. L. Cox, D. O. V. Alonso, F. Pázmándi, H. Rudyk, J. H. Come, J. Masel, J. N. Onuchic, J. S. Griffith, K. Post, M. A. Nowak, M. Beekes, M. Eigen, M. Horiuchi, M. Horiuchi, M. Laurent, R. Demaimay, R. M. Anderson, R. R. P. Singh, R. V. Kulkarni, S. B. Prusiner, T. R. Serio, W. Swietnicki   +25 more
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Deposition pattern and subcellular distribution of disease-associated prion protein in cerebellar organotypic slice cultures infected with scrapie

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2015
Organotypic cerebellar slices represent a suitable model for characterizing and manipulating prion replication in complex cell environments. Organotypic slices recapitulate prion pathology and are amenable to drug testing in the absence of a blood-brain ...
Hanna eWolf, Andre eHossinger, Andrea eFehlinger, Sven eBuettner, Valerie eSim, Debbie eMcKenzie, Ina Maja Vorberg, Ina Maja Vorberg   +7 more
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The Prion Diseases

Scientific American, 1995
The human prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative maladies that may present as sporadic, genetic, or infectious illnesses. The sporadic form is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) while the inherited disorders are called familial (f) CJD, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker (GSS) disease and fatal familial insomnia (FFI).
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Tau‐targeting active immunotherapy slows progression and reduces pathology in mouse models of tauopathy

Brain Pathology, EarlyView.
The efficacy of the novel anti‐tau active immunotherapy, p5555kb, was tested using two mouse models of tau pathology. p5555kb inoculation increased the survival rate and reduced tau pathology in tau‐overexpressing P301L mice and decreased tau seeding in the brains of C57BL/6 mice injected with human‐purified Alzheimer's disease tau.
Christopher M. Brown, Jeanne K. Brooks, Louise Kelly, Madeline M. Vroom, Matthew Longo, Jean‐Cosme Dodart, Roxana Carare, Justin D. Boyd   +7 more
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Pathogenetical significance of porencephalic lesions associated with intracerebral inoculation of sheep with the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent [PDF]

, 2009
Decreased rates of transmission of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) to sheep have been attributed to some polymorphisms of the prion protein (PrP) and to a ‘species barrier’ on interspecies experiments.
Card, Cotran, Detwiler, Foster, Foster, Fraser, Goldmann, González, González, Hamir, Hamir, Hamir, Houston, Houston, Houston, Hunter, Jeffrey, McLennan, Nakaoke, Outram, Weller, Zakharov   +21 more
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Effects of Pseudorabies Virus Infection on the Tracheobronchial Lymph Node Transcriptome

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 2015
This study represents the first swine transcriptome hive plots created from gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) data and provides a novel insight into the global transcriptome changes occurring in tracheobronchial lymph nodes (TBLN) and spanning the ...
Laura C. Miller, Darrell O. Bayles, Eraldo L. Zanella, Kelly M. Lager   +3 more
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Rapid generation of prion disease models using AAV‐delivered PrP variants in knockout mice

Brain Pathology, EarlyView.
We developed a rapid AAV‐based system to generate prion disease models in weeks rather than months. Following systemic AAV9P31 delivery of modified PrP to knockout mice, we achieved brain‐wide expression and successful propagation of both classical (RML) and atypical (GSS‐A117V) prion strains.
Maitena San‐Juan‐Ansoleaga, Eva Fernández‐Muñoz, Jorge M. Charco, Enric Vidal, Diego Herrero‐Martínez, Josu Galarza‐Ahumada, Cristina Sampedro‐Torres‐Quevedo, Samanta Giler, Mariví Geijo, Gloria González‐Aseguinolaza, Hasier Eraña, Joaquín Castilla   +11 more
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