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A Review on the Salt Bridge Between ASP177 and ARG163 of Wild-Type Rabbit Prion Protein

, 2015
Prion diseases are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of mammalian species such as sheep and goats, cattle, deer, elks, humans and mice etc., but rabbits have a low susceptibility to be infected ...
Wang, Feng, Zhang, Jiapu
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ZNRD2 Mediated Nucleoprotein Aggregation Impairs Respiratory Syncytial Virus Replication

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
During RSV infection, nucleoprotein (N) forms RNA‐bound oligomers. The host protein ZNRD2 binds to these oligomers, promoting their transition into insoluble aggregates. These aggregates simultaneously sequester functional N to restrict viral production and disrupt chaperonin assembly quality control by interfering with ZNRD2's role as an adaptor ...
Haiwu Zhou, Mingbin He, Jinhong Du, Cong Liu, Weiwei Wang, Yuewen Han, Zhifei Li, Yali Qin, Mingzhou Chen   +8 more
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The Way forward for the Origin of Life: Prions and Prion-Like Molecules First Hypothesis

Life, 2021
In this paper the hypothesis that prions and prion-like molecules could have initiated the chemical evolutionary process which led to the eventual emergence of life is reappraised.
Sohan Jheeta, Elias Chatzitheodoridis, Kevin Devine, Janice Block   +3 more
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Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster, Ashleigh Powell, Claire Hutchinson, Richard Leibbrandt, Svetlana Bogomolova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial strain of human prions created in vitro

Nature Communications, 2018
Synthetic prions have previously been generated from recombinant rodent PrP. Here the authors generate synthetic human prions, by seeding human PrP with CJD prions, and characterize its infectivity in mice.
Chae Kim, Xiangzhu Xiao, Shugui Chen, Tracy Haldiman, Vitautas Smirnovas, Diane Kofskey, Miriam Warren, Krystyna Surewicz, Nicholas R. Maurer, Qingzhong Kong, Witold Surewicz, Jiri G. Safar   +11 more
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The Molecular Pathology of Prion Diseases [PDF]

, 2004
Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are a group of invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorders. Uniquely, they may present as sporadic, inherited, or infectious forms, all of which involve conversion of the normal ...
Herms, Jochen, Kretzschmar, Hans A., Vassallo, Neville   +2 more
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Cellular Prion Protein Mediates Toxic Signaling of Amyloid Beta [PDF]

, 2011
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., Tatzelt, Jörg, Winklhofer, Konstanze F.   +2 more
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Construction of pathogenic Sec16a mutation mouse model using CRISPR/Cas9

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Yaqiang Hu et al. engineered a pathogenic Sec16a mutant mouse model using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. They observed that the Sec16a mutant mice displayed diminished learning and memory capabilities, along with a limb‐clasping phenotype upon tail suspension.
Yaqiang Hu, Zhiyang Zeng, Xinyu Ming, Shuming Yin, Yuting Guan, Liangcai Gao, Dali Li   +6 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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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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