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Characterization of the prion protein in relation to normal cellular function and in disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases, are a group of rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorders that can affect both human and animals.
Wik, Lotta
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Prion Protein Misfolding [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Molecular Medicine, 2009
The crucial event in the development of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) is the conformational change of a host-encoded membrane protein - the cellular PrP(C) - into a disease associated, fibril-forming isoform PrP(Sc). This conformational transition from the alpha-helix-rich cellular form into the mainly beta-sheet containing ...
Kupfer, L, Hinrichs, W, Groschup, M.H
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Enhanced phosphorylation of PERK in primary cultured neurons as an autonomous neuronal response to prion infection.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Conversion of cellular prion protein (PrPC) into the pathogenic isoform of prion protein (PrPSc) in neurons is one of the key pathophysiological events in prion diseases.
Misaki Tanaka   +4 more
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
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Use of bovine recombinant prion protein and real-time quaking-induced conversion to detect cattle transmissible mink encephalopathy prions and discriminate classical and atypical L- and H-Type bovine spongiform encephalopathy. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Prions are amyloid-forming proteins that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies through a process involving conversion from the normal cellular prion protein to the pathogenic misfolded conformation (PrPSc).
Soyoun Hwang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distribution of Misfolded Prion Protein Seeding Activity Alone Does Not Predict Regions of Neurodegeneration.

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2016
Protein misfolding is common across many neurodegenerative diseases, with misfolded proteins acting as seeds for "prion-like" conversion of normally folded protein to abnormal conformations.
James Alibhai   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A novel protective prion protein variant that colocalizes with kuru exposure. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
BACKGROUND: Kuru is a devastating epidemic prion disease that affected a highly restricted geographic area of the Papua New Guinea highlands; at its peak, it predominantly affected adult women and children of both sexes.
Whittaker, John   +26 more
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Metabolism of minor isoforms of prion proteins: Cytosolic prion protein and transmembrane prion protein.

open access: yesNeural regeneration research, 2013
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion disease is triggered by the conversion from cellular prion protein to pathogenic prion protein. Growing evidence has concentrated on prion protein configuration changes and their correlation with prion disease transmissibility and pathogenicity.
Song, Zhiqi, Zhao, Deming, Yang, Lifeng
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Effects of cellular prion protein on rapid eye movement sleep deprivation-induced spatial memory impairment

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2019
The effects of cellular prion protein on rapid eye movement sleep deprivation-induced spatial memory impairment were investigated, and the related mechanisms explored.
Li Hu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prion pathogenesis is unaltered in the absence of SIRPα-mediated "don't-eat-me" signaling. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Prion diseases are neurodegenerative conditions caused by misfolding of the prion protein, leading to conspicuous neuronal loss and intense microgliosis.
Mario Nuvolone   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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