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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
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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
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A New Cell Model for Investigating Prion Strain Selection and Adaptation
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
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Genetic risk factors for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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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Anti-prion drug mPPIg5 inhibits PrP(C) conversion to PrP(Sc). [PDF]
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.
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Cellular Prion Protein Mediates Toxic Signaling of Amyloid Beta [PDF]
Prion diseases in humans and animals comprise a group of invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the formation of a pathogenic protein conformer designated PrPSc and infectious particles denoted prions.
Resenberger, Ulrike K. +2 more
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Genetic Factors Contributing to the Susceptibility of Development of Prion Diseases [PDF]
This paper won an honorable mention writing flag award in the research category. Claire Culbertson, writing for Katherine Bruner’s BIO 325L class, “Lab Experience in Genetics”.Bruner, KatherineUndergraduate ...
Culbertson, Claire
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Prions are infectious protein polymers that have been found to cause fatal diseases in mammals. Prions have also been identified in fungi (yeast and filamentous fungi), where they behave as cytoplasmic non-Mendelian genetic elements.
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Pathogenic mutations in the hydrophobic core of the human prion protein can promote structural instability and misfolding [PDF]
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 ...
Daggett, Valerie, van der Kamp, Marc W
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Prions replicate via the autocatalytic conversion of cellular prion protein (PrPC) into fibrillar assemblies of misfolded PrP. While this process has been extensively studied in vivo and in vitro, non-physiological reaction conditions of fibril formation
Daljit Sangar +8 more
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