Is the prevalent human prion protein 129M/V mutation a living fossil from a Paleolithic panzootic superprion pandemic?

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：:It has been described that the breakdown of β-sheets in PrP (Sc) by denaturation results in loss of infectivity and PK-sensitivity, suggesting a relationship between the structure and PK-resistance. It is also known that an important fraction of total PrP (Sc) is PK-sensitive and can be isolated by the method we alr...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Sajnani G,Requena JR

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：:We recently developed a new in vitro amplification technology, designated "real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QUIC)", for detection of the abnormal form of prion protein (PrPSc) in easily accessible specimens such as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). After assessment of more than 200 CSF specimens from Japanese and Aus...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Atarashi R,Sano K,Satoh K,Nishida N

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion protein (PrP), the causative agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, is synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) where it undergoes numerous covalent modifications. Here we investigate the interdependence and regulation of PrP oxidative folding, N-glycosylation and GPI addition in diverse ER con...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Orsi A,Sitia R

更新日期：2007-10-01 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 normal function of PrPC, the cellular prion protein, has remained mysterious since its first description over 30 years ago. Amazingly, although complete deletion of the gene encoding PrPC has little phenotypic consequence, expression in transgenic mice of PrP molecules carrying certain internal deletions produces ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： McDonald AJ,Wu B,Harris DA

更新日期：2017-11-02 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：:The conformational diseases, linked to protein aggregation into amyloid conformations, range from non-infectious neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer disease (AD), to highly infectious ones, such as human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). They are commonly known as prion diseases. However, si...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Sabate R

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The evolutionary origins of vertebrate prion genes had remained elusive until recently when multiple lines of evidence converged to the proposition that members of the prion gene family represent an ancient branch of a larger family of ZIP metal ion transporters. (1) A follow-up investigation which explored the mechan...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Ehsani S,Mehrabian M,Pocanschi CL,Schmitt-Ulms G

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether EPC-MVs could promote bone regeneration by directly regulating osteoblast through miR-126. The underlying mechanisms were also explored. METHODS:EPCs were isolated from bone marrow mononuclear cells. EPC-MVs were collected from EPCs cultured medium. The lentivirus was used to induce miR-1...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Chen G,Li P,Liu Z,Zeng R,Ma X,Chen Y,Xu H,Li Z,Lin H

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:Many laboratory studies and epidemiological observations confirm that nematodes prevent some immune-mediated diseases. The development of immunologically well-defined laboratory models of intestinal nematode infection has allowed significant advances to be made in understanding the immunological basis of effector mech...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Donskow-Łysoniewska K,Brodaczewska K,Doligalska M

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Scrapie and CWD are horizontally transmissible, and the environment likely serves as a stable reservoir of infectious prions, facilitating a sustained incidence of CWD in free-ranging cervid populations and complicating efforts to eliminate disease in captive herds. Prions will enter the environment through mortalitie...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Saunders SE,Bartelt-Hunt SL,Bartz JC

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：:In Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) and Alzheimer disease (AD) both misfolding and aggregation of specific proteins represent key features. Recently, it was observed that PrP (c) is a mediator of a synaptic dysfunction induced by Aβ oligomers. We tested a novel γ secretase modulator (CHF5074) in a mur...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Poli G,Corda E,Lucchini B,Puricelli M,Martino PA,Dall'ara P,Villetti G,Bareggi SR,Corona C,Vallino Costassa E,Gazzuola P,Iulini B,Mazza M,Acutis P,Mantegazza P,Casalone C,Imbimbo BP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic mechanism of prion diseases remains unknown. We recently reported that prion infection disturbs post-Golgi trafficking of certain types of membrane proteins to the cell surface, resulting in reduced surface expression of membrane proteins and abrogating the signal from the proteins. The surface expressi...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Uchiyama K,Miyata H,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:Abstract Here, we reported a Chinese case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) with a rare mutation in the prion protein gene (PRNP) leading to an exchange of amino acid from valine (V) to isoleucine (I) at codon 180 (V180I). The 72 year-old Chinese women started with gradual memory loss. On admission, she did not prese...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Shi Q,Shen XJ,Zhou W,Xiao K,Zhang XM,Zhang BY,Dong XP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) created a global European crisis in the 1980s and 90s, with very serious health and economic implications. Classical BSE now appears to be under control, to a great extent as a result of a global research effort that identified the sources of prions in meat and bone meal (MBM) an...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Requena JR,Kristensson K,Korth C,Zurzolo C,Simmons M,Aguilar-Calvo P,Aguzzi A,Andreoletti O,Benestad SL,Böhm R,Brown K,Calgua B,Del Río JA,Espinosa JC,Girones R,Godsave S,Hoelzle LE,Knittler MR,Kuhn F,Legname G,La

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of neurodegenerative diseases caused by the misfolding of the cellular prion protein to an infectious form PrP(Sc). The intercellular transfer of PrP(Sc) is a question of immediate interest as the cell-to-cell movement of the infectious particle causes the i...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Zhu S,Victoria GS,Marzo L,Ghosh R,Zurzolo C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of native cellular prion protein (PrPc) from an α-helical structure to a toxic and infectious β-sheet structure (PrPSc) is a critical step in the development of prion disease. There are some indications that the formation of PrPSc is preceded by a β-sheet rich PrP (PrPβ) form which is non-infectious, but is...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Ladner-Keay CL,LeVatte M,Wishart DS

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Recent studies on iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) raised concerns that one of the hallmark lesions of Alzheimer disease (AD), amyloid-β (Aβ), may be transmitted from human-to-human. The neuropathology of AD-related lesions is complex. Therefore, many aspects need to be considered in deciding on this issue. ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Kovacs GG

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00