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Treatment of Prion Disease with Heterologous Prion Proteins. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, and scrapie in sheep are fatal neurodegenerative diseases for which there is no effective treatment.
Pamela J Skinner, Hyeon O Kim, Damani Bryant, Nikilyn J Kinzel, Cavan Reilly, Suzette A Priola, Anne E Ward, Patricia A Goodman, Katherine Olson, Davis M Seelig   +9 more
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Prions and Prion Diseases [PDF]

Laboratory Medicine, 1999
Prion diseases (transmissible encephalopathies) are progressive neurodegenerative diseases of animals and humans caused by a unique agent, the prion. These diseases have recently been in the news because of the emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; mad cow disease) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the United Kingdom.
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PolyG Fibrils Coalesce Into Nuclear Ribbons That Engage Proteostasis Machinery in Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusion Disease

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In NIID, expanded NOTCH2NLC repeats give rise to nuclear polyG inclusions. Tracer‐guided in situ cryo‐electron tomography enables cross‐scale structural analysis from mouse brain to native neuronal nuclei, revealing dense‐core/peripheral‐halo inclusions built from compact polyG ribbons.
Hui Dong, Yongcheng Pan, Zhiyao Tang, Yuxuan Yao, Guicong Zhang, Junpu Wang, Haonan Xiao, Yun Tian, Beisha Tang, Dan Li, Qiang Guo, Ruijun Tian, Qiong Liu, Cong Liu   +13 more
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Prions And Prion Diseases

African Journal of Clinical and Experimental Microbiology, 2008
A prion is a small infectious particle, which resist inactivation by procedures that modify nucleic acids. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affects the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted by prions.
Obi, R K, Nwanebu, F C
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A Unifying Thermodynamic Model for Phase Separation and Aging of Biopolymers

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Phase separation and aging of intrinsically disordered proteins are placed in a unifying framework. A thermodynamically consistent time‐dependent version of associating‐polymer theory shows how the processes are intricately coupled. Assuming aging to occur through interacting sites resulting from reversible conformational transitions, the model ...
Jasper J. Michels, Joana Caria, Edward A. Lemke   +2 more
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Current Challenges of Transcription Compartmentalization Research

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Transcription factors, coactivators, and RNA polymerase II assemble into transcription compartments ranging from small, defined complexes to liquid‐like condensates. This review unifies these seemingly competing descriptions along a single continuum and asks what these compartments have been shown to do, and what they have not, revealing that the most ...
Thomas Quail, Sina Wittmann
wiley   +1 more source

Reply to “Reassessing the Proposed Creatine–PrP Axis in Endometriosis: Methodological and Mechanistic Considerations”

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This Correspondence is a formal response to the Comment by Dr. Machado regarding our publication “Creatine Promotes Endometriosis by Inducing Ferroptosis Resistance via Suppression of PrP.” We address several conceptual concerns raised in the Comment and clarify the physiological relevance of creatine concentrations, the methodological ...
Siman Chen, Xiaoqian Ma, Yukai Liu, Zhiqi Zhong, Chunyan Wei, Mingqing Li, Xiaoyong Zhu   +6 more
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Genetic Modifiers of ABCA1 Activity Interact with APOE Isoforms to Mediate Alzheimer's Disease Risk

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective ATP‐binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) has been associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the mechanisms by which it impacts disease risk are unknown. ABCA1 is known to bind apolipoprotein E (ApoE) and catalyze apolipoprotein lipidation.
Andrés Peña‐Tauber, Ricardo Hernández Arriaza, Dylan Reil, Manon Muntaner, Junyoung Park, Benjamin Grenier‐Boley, Marc Hulsman, Philippe Amouyel, Céline Bellenguez, Camille Charbonnier, Jean‐François Deleuze, Orio Dols‐Icardo, John Hardy, Henne Holstege, Gaël Nicolas, Simon Mead, Michael Wagner, Alfredo Ramirez, Rebecca Sims, John van Swieten, Julie Willams, Jean‐Charles Lambert, Chaitan Khosla, Yann Le Guen, Michael D Greicius   +24 more
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Neurotransmitter‐Defined Degeneration Patterns in Sporadic and C9orf72‐Associated Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Predilection to GABAergic, Serotonergic, Opioid, Glutamatergic, Endocannabinoid, and Microglial Systems—Implications for Therapy Development

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has a markedly distinctive clinical and neuroradiological signature, with the preferential involvement of specific brain networks and the apparent sparing of others. The molecular underpinnings of the strikingly selective anatomical vulnerability have not been fully elucidated to date despite the potential ...
Marlene Tahedl, We Fong Siah, Jasmin Lope, Jennifer C. Hengeveld, Mark A. Doherty, Russell L. McLaughlin, Orla Hardiman, Ee Ling Tan, Alison Toomey, Jana Kleinerova, Peter Bede   +10 more
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Absence of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the open reading frame (ORF) of the prion protein gene (PRNP) in a large sampling of various chicken breeds

BMC Genomics, 2019
Background Prion diseases are zoonotic diseases with a broad infection spectrum among mammalian hosts and are caused by the misfolded prion protein (PrPSc) derived from the normal prion protein (PrPC), which encodes the prion protein gene (PRNP ...
Yong-Chan Kim, Sae-Young Won, Byung-Hoon Jeong   +2 more
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