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Prion protein conversion at two distinct cellular sites precedes fibrillisation

open access: yesNature Communications, 2023
The self-templating nature of prions plays a central role in prion pathogenesis and is associated with infectivity and transmissibility. Since propagation of proteopathic seeds has now been acknowledged a principal pathogenic process in many types of ...
Juan Manuel Ribes   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

ALK1 controls hepatic vessel formation, angiodiversity, and angiocrine functions in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia of the liver

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Hepatic endothelial Alk1 signaling protects from development of vascular malformations while maintaining organ‐specific endothelial differentiation and angiocrine portmanteau of the names Wingless and Int‐1 signaling. Abstract Background and Aims In hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), severe liver vascular malformations are associated with ...
Christian David Schmid   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pros and cons of a prion-like pathogenesis in Parkinson's disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Prion protein and prion disease at a glance [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Cell Science, 2021
ABSTRACT Prion diseases are neurodegenerative disorders caused by conformational conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) into scrapie prion protein (PrPSc). As the main component of prion, PrPSc acts as an infectious template that recruits and converts normal cellular PrPC into its pathogenic, misfolded isoform. Intriguingly, the
Zhu, Caihong, Aguzzi, Adriano
openaire   +3 more sources

Combination of structure-based virtual screening, molecular docking and molecular dynamics approaches for the discovery of anti-prion fibril flavonoids

open access: yesFrontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2023
Prion diseases are a group of rare neurodegenerative diseases caused by the structural conversion of cellular prion into Scrapie prion resulting aggregated fibrils. Therapy of prion diseases has been developed for several decades, especially drug designs
Cheng-Ping Jheng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Cell Model for Investigating Prion Strain Selection and Adaptation

open access: yesViruses, 2019
Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative diseases that affect humans and animals. Prion strains, conformational variants of misfolded prion proteins, are associated with distinct clinical and pathological phenotypes.
Alexandra Philiastides   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic risk factors for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

open access: yesNeurobiology 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
doaj   +1 more source

Anti-prion drug mPPIg5 inhibits PrP(C) conversion to PrP(Sc). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
Jeremy C. Simpson (29225)   +31 more
core   +1 more source

Prion Diseases [PDF]

open access: yesSeminars in Neurology, 2012
Prion diseases are a group of diseases caused by abnormally conformed infectious proteins, called prions. They can be sporadic (Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease [JCD]), genetic (genetic JCD, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker, and familial fatal insomnia), or acquired (kuru, variant JCD, and iatrogenic JCD).
Takada, Leonel, Geschwind, Michael
openaire   +4 more sources

Pathogenic mutations in the hydrophobic core of the human prion protein can promote structural instability and misfolding [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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