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Plants as vectors for environmental prion transmission

iScience, 2023
Summary: Prions cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases and exhibit remarkable durability, which engenders a wide array of potential exposure scenarios. In chronic wasting disease of deer, elk, moose, and reindeer and in scrapie of sheep and goats, prions
Christina M. Carlson, Samuel Thomas, Matthew W. Keating, Paulina Soto, Nicole M. Gibbs, Haeyoon Chang, Jamie K. Wiepz, Annabel G. Austin, Jay R. Schneider, Rodrigo Morales, Christopher J. Johnson, Joel A. Pedersen   +11 more
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Adenosine triphosphate as a modulator of protein interactions and stability

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
ATP is best known as the cell's energy currency, but it also shapes how proteins fold, interact, aggregate and form biomolecular condensates. This review explains the emerging physical principles behind these effects, including weak binding to charged protein regions, magnesium‐dependent behaviour and concentration‐dependent control of protein ...
Shuyuan Tan, Robin Curtis
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The Structure of Human Prions: From Biology to Structural Models—Considerations and Pitfalls

Viruses, 2014
The Structure of Human Prions: From Biology to Structural Models — Considerations and ...
Claudia Y. Acevedo-Morantes, Holger Wille   +1 more
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MARK4 enhances stress granule formation under oxidative stress and increases tau accumulation

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
MARK4 (red dots) localizes to stress granules (orange dots) and promotes their formation under oxidative stress by modulating TIA1 (blue dots). MARK4 and TIA1 synergistically increase tau (purple) accumulation, and the reduction of the TIA1 ortholog suppresses neurodegeneration in a fly model.
Sho Nakajima, Kotone Watanabe, Grigorii Sultanakhmetov, Aoi Fukuchi, Keiya Ito, Sawako Shimizu, Taro Saito, Akiko Asada, Kanae Ando   +8 more
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Posterior Cortical Atrophy in the Asia‐Pacific: A Report From the PCA Asian Workgroup

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) is a distinct dementia syndrome primarily affecting spatial abilities and visual processing. It is associated with degeneration in the posterior part of the brain. PCA is subclassified into PCA‐pure and PCA‐plus syndromes based on consensus criteria.
Yuttachai Likitjaroen, Ya‐Ting Chang, Levinia Lim, Pai‐Yi Chiu, Jung‐Lung Hsu, SangYun Kim, Wataru Narita, Na Young Ryoo, Kyoko Suzuki, Nagaendran Kandiah, Sebastian Crutch, Ming‐Chyi Pai   +11 more
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SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza, Arun Meyyazhagan, Eliseo Picchi, Gustavo Ribas, Ingrid Faber, Ryosuke Miyamoto, Preethi Basavaraju, Paolo Eusebi, Haripriya Kuchi Bhotla, Mario Stasi, Fabrizio Gaudiello, Francesco Patti, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Marcondes Cavalcante França Jr, José Luiz Pedroso, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Peter Henry St George‐Hyslop, Toshitaka Kawarai, Antonio Orlacchio   +19 more
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Detection of β-amyloid aggregates/plaques in 5xFAD mice by labelled native PLGA nanoparticles: implication in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease

Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2023
Evidence suggests that increased level/aggregation of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide, together with enhanced phosphorylation/aggregation of tau protein, play a critical role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia in the ...
Karthivashan Govindarajan, Satyabrata Kar   +1 more
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Conformational diversity in purified prions produced in vitro.

PLoS Pathogens, 2023
Prion diseases are caused by misfolding of either wild-type or mutant forms of the prion protein (PrP) into self-propagating, pathogenic conformers, collectively termed PrPSc.
Daniel J Walsh, Abigail M Schwind, Geoffrey P Noble, Surachai Supattapone   +3 more
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Comprehensive Characterization of 98 Chinese Cases of Genetic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob Disease With T188K Mutation

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To characterize the demographic, clinical, and laboratory features of the Chinese patients of genetic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease with T188K variant (T188K‐gCJD), the most common subtype of genetic prion diseases (gPrDs) in China. Methods In this nationwide retrospective study, data from 98 genetically confirmed T188K‐gCJD patients ...
Chun‐Jie Li, Dong‐Lin Liang, Li‐Ping Gao, Wei‐Wei Zhang, Wei Zhou, A. Ruhan, Bing Xu, Run‐Dong Cao, Kang Xiao, Cao Chen, Qi Shi, Xiao‐Ping Dong   +11 more
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Rational design of structure‐based vaccines targeting misfolded alpha‐synuclein conformers of Parkinson's disease and related disorders

Bioengineering & Translational Medicine
Synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), are neurodegenerative disorders caused by the accumulation of misfolded alpha‐synuclein protein.
Jose Miguel Flores‐Fernandez, Verena Pesch, Aishwarya Sriraman, Enrique Chimal‐Juarez, Sara Amidian, Xiongyao Wang, Caleb Duckering, Andrew Fang, Sara Reithofer, Liang Ma, Leonardo M. Cortez, Valerie L. Sim, Gültekin Tamgüney, Holger Wille   +13 more
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