When amyloids become prions.

abstract：:The aggregation of a soluble protein into insoluble, beta-sheet rich amyloid fibrils is a defining characteristic of many neurodegenerative diseases, including prion disorders. The prion protein has so far been considered unique because of its infectious nature. Recent investigations, however, suggest that other amylo...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Frost B,Diamond MI

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most human and animal prion diseases the abnormal disease-associated prion protein (PrPSc) is deposited as non-amyloid aggregates in CNS, spleen and lymphoid organs. In contrast, in humans and transgenic mice with PrP mutations which cause expression of PrP lacking a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchor, most ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Race B,Jeffrey M,McGovern G,Dorward D,Chesebro B

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are subacute neurodegenerative diseases that affect humans and a range of domestic and free-ranging animal species. These diseases are characterized by the accumulation of PrP (Sc), an abnormally folded isoform of the cellular prion protein (PrP (C)), in affected tissues. The pathology during prion dise...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Mabbott NA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on the proceedings of the Global Alzheimer Summit that took place September 22-23, 2011 in Madrid, Spain. As Alzheimer disease (AD) is the leading cause of neurodegeneration in elderly individuals and as yet has no effective therapeutic option, it continues to stimulate global research interests. At the...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Gonsalves D,Jovanovic K,Da Costa Dias B,Weiss SF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders caused by mutations in the gene encoding the prion protein (PrP). Different PrP mutations cause different diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome and fatal familial insomnia (FFI). The reason for this var...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Chiesa R,Restelli E,Comerio L,Del Gallo F,Imeri L

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of lethal neurodegenerative diseases involving the structural conversion of cellular prion protein (PrPC) into the pathogenic isoform (PrPSc) for which no effective treatment is currently available. Previous studies have implicated that a polymeric molecule ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Honda R,Yamaguchi KI,Elhelaly AE,Fuji M,Kuwata K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TDP-43 and FUS are DNA/RNA binding proteins associated with neuronal inclusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Other neurodegenerative diseases are also characterized by neuronal protein aggregates, e.g. Huntington's disease, associated with polyglutamine (polyQ) expansions in the protein huntingtin....

journal_title：Prion

authors： Park SK,Arslan F,Kanneganti V,Barmada SJ,Purushothaman P,Verma SC,Liebman SW

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of L-type-like atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy was detected in 14-year-old Japanese black beef cattle (BSE/JP24). To clarify the biological and biochemical properties of the prion in BSE/JP24, we performed a transmission study with wild-type mice and bovinized transgenic mice (TgBoPrP). The BSE/JP24 p...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Masujin K,Shu Y,Yamakawa Y,Hagiwara K,Sata T,Matsuura Y,Iwamaru Y,Imamura M,Okada H,Mohri S,Yokoyama T

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tauopathies are a family of neurodegenerative diseases in which fibrils of human hyperphosphorylated tau (P-tau) are believed to cause neuropathology. In Alzheimer disease, P-tau associates with A-beta amyloid and contributes to disease pathogenesis. In familial human prion diseases and variant CJD, P-tau often co-ass...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Race B,Phillips K,Kraus A,Chesebro B

更新日期：2016-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurodegenerative disorders share common features including the accumulation of aggregated misfolded proteins, neuroinflammation and the induction of apoptosis. While the contributions of each of these individual elements to neuronal death remain unclear, a commonly used antibiotic, minocycline, has been shown to...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Noble W,Garwood CJ,Hanger DP

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The description of prions as causal agents of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE), is nowadays accepted as an important breakthrough in biology as revealed the existence of a completely new group of pathogens and a new way of transmission for biological information. A common feature of many neurodegenerati...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Eraña H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection and diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases has been hampered by the lack of sensitive testing. Real-time quaking induced conversion (RT-QuIC) has been used for the early and sensitive detection of prion-induced neurologic disease, and has more recently been adapted to detect misfolded alpha-synuclein ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Tennant JM,Henderson DM,Wisniewski TM,Hoover EA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic dysfunction is a key process in the evolution of many neurodegenerative diseases, with synaptic loss preceding that of neuronal cell bodies. In Alzheimer, Huntington, and prion diseases early synaptic changes correlate with cognitive and motor decline, and altered synaptic function may also underlie deficits ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Mallucci GR

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular chaperone network plays a critical role in the formation and propagation of self-replicating yeast prions. Not only do individual prions differ in their requirements for certain chaperones, but structural variants of the same prion can also display distinct dependences on the chaperone machinery, specifi...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Dulle JE,True HL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast have been extensively used to model aspects of protein folding diseases, yielding novel mechanistic insights and identifying promising candidate therapeutic targets. In particular, the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington disease (HD), which is caused by the abnormal expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the hu...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Mason RP,Giorgini F

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degeneration of pre-synaptic boutons in the stratum radiatum of the dorsal hippocampus is one of earliest components of neurodegeneration in several models of murine prion disease. We recently showed that blockade of synaptic transmission by infusion of botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT/A) into the hippocampus several ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Caleo M,Restani L,Perry VH

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian prions are composed of misfolded aggregated prion protein (PrP) with amyloid-like features. Prions are zoonotic disease agents that infect a wide variety of mammalian species including humans. Mammals and by-products thereof which are frequently encountered in daily life are most important for human health. ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Hammarström P,Nyström S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins with expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) regions are prone to form amyloids, which can cause diseases in humans and toxicity in yeast. Recently, we showed that in yeast non-toxic amyloids of Q-rich proteins can induce aggregation and toxicity of wild type huntingtin (Htt) with a short non-pathogenic polyglutamine ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Alexandrov AI,Serpionov GV,Kushnirov VV,Ter-Avanesyan MD

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence indicates that astrocytes cannot be just considered as passive supportive cells deputed to preserve neuronal activity and survival, but rather they are involved in a striking number of active functions that are critical to the performance of the central nervous system (CNS). As a consequence, it is be...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Brambilla L,Martorana F,Rossi D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shadoo (Sho) is a brain glycoprotein with similarities to the unstructured region of PrP (C) . Frameshift alleles of the Sho gene, Sprn, are reported in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) patients while Sprn mRNA knockdown in PrP-null (Prnp(0/0) ) embryos produces lethality, advancing Sho as the hypothetical PrP...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Daude N,Westaway D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to test whether recombinant mouse (mo)PrP alone or in combination with LPS or under simulated endotoxemia would affect expression of genes related to host inflammatory and antimicrobial responses. To test our hypotheses colon tissues were collected from 16 male mice (FVB/N strain) and...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Dervishi E,Lam TH,Dunn SM,Zwierzchowski G,Saleem F,Wishart DS,Ametaj BN

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms for the spread of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases, including chronic wasting disease (CWD) in North American cervids, are incompletely understood, but primary routes include horizontal and environmental transmission. Birds have been identified as potential vectors for a number of diseases, ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Fischer JW,Phillips GE,Nichols TA,Vercauteren KC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins HSP27, HSP70 and HSP90 are molecular chaperones whose expression is increased after many different types of stress. They have a protective function helping the cell to cope with lethal conditions. The cytoprotective function of HSPs is largely explained by their anti-apoptotic function. HSPs have b...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Lanneau D,de Thonel A,Maurel S,Didelot C,Garrido C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among different types of protein aggregation, amyloids are a biochemically well characterized state of protein aggregation that are associated with a large number of neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an insightful model...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Aslam K,Hazbun TR

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are self-propagating infectious protein aggregates of mammals and fungi. The exact mechanism of prion formation is poorly understood. In a recent study, a comparative analysis of the aggregation propensities of chimeric proteins derived from the yeast Sup35p and mouse PrP prion proteins was performed in neurobl...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Krammer C,Kremmer E,Schätzl HM,Vorberg I

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions, the causative agent of chronic wasting disease (CWD) enter the environment through shedding of bodily fluids and carcass decay, posing a disease risk as a result of their environmental persistence. Plants have the ability to take up large organic particles, including whole proteins, and microbes. This study us...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Rasmussen J,Gilroyed BH,Reuter T,Dudas S,Neumann NF,Balachandran A,Kav NN,Graham C,Czub S,McAllister TA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are infectious conformational diseases. Despite the determination of many native prion protein (PrP) structures and in vitro production of infectious prions from recombinant PrP the structural background of PrP conversion remains the largest unsolved problem. The aggregated state of PrP (Sc) makes it in...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Hafner-Bratkovič I,Jerala R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbations of calcium homeostasis have been associated with several neurodegenerative disorders. A common polymorphism (rs2986017) in the CALHM1 gene, coding for a regulator of calcium homeostasis, is a genetic risk factor for the development of Alzheimer disease (AD). Although some authors failed to confirm these ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Calero O,Bullido MJ,Clarimón J,Hortigüela R,Frank-García A,Martínez-Martín P,Lleó A,Rey MJ,Sastre I,Rábano A,de Pedro-Cuesta J,Ferrer I,Calero M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are infectious, self-propagating protein conformations. [PSI+], [RNQ+] and [URE3] are well characterized prions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and represent the aggregated states of the translation termination factor Sup35, a functionally unknown protein Rnq1, and a regulator of nitrogen metabolism Ure2, respectiv...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Kurahashi H,Oishi K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion and Alzheimer diseases are fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by misfolding and aggregation of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) and the β-amyloid peptide, respectively. Soluble oligomeric species rather than large aggregates are now believed to be neurotoxic. PrP(C) undergoes three proteolytic cleavages ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Béland M,Roucou X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00