Silencing synapses: a route to understanding synapse degeneration in chronic neurodegenerative disease.

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：: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：: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：: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：:Modified nucleosides in tRNA anticodon loops such as 5-methoxy-carbonyl-methyl-2-thiouridine (mcm5s2U) and pseuduridine (Ψ) are thought to be required for an efficient decoding process. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the simultaneous presence of mcm5s2U and Ψ38 in tRNAGlnUUG was shown to mediate efficient synthesis of t...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Schaffrath R,Klassen R

更新日期：2017-01-02 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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：:The detection method based on the mathematical expectation (ME) strategy is fast and accuracy for low frequency mutation screening in large samples. Previous studies have found that the 14-bp insertion/deletion (indel) variants of the 3' untranslated region (3' UTR) within bovine PRNP gene have been characterized with...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Yang Q,Zhang S,Liu L,Cao X,Lei C,Qi X,Lin F,Qu W,Qi X,Liu J,Wang R,Chen H,Lan X

更新日期：2016-09-02 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：: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：:Prion diseases are consistently associated with prion protein (PrP(C)) misfolding rendering a cascade of auto-catalytic self-perpetuation of misfolded PrP in an afflicted individual. The molecular process is intriguingly similar to all known amyloid diseases both local and systemic. The prion disease is also infectiou...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Nyström S,Hammarström P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prion paradigm is increasingly invoked to explain the molecular pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases involving the misfolding and aggregation of proteins other than the prion protein (PrP). Extensive evidence from in vitro and in vivo studies indicates that misfolded and aggregated Aβ peptide, which is the p...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Rasmussen J,Jucker M,Walker LC

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report 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 (Val) to isoleucine (I) at codon 203 (V203I). The 80-y-old male presented with sudden memory loss, rapid loss of vocabulary, inattention and slow resp...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Shi Q,Chen C,Wang XJ,Zhou W,Wang JC,Zhang BY,Gao C,Gao C,Han J,Dong XP

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast prion [PSI(+)] represents an aggregated state of the translational release factor Sup35 (eRF3) and deprives termination complexes of functional Sup35, resulting in nonsense codon suppression. Protein-remodeling factor Hsp104 is involved in thermotolerance and [PSI(+)] propagation, however the structure-and-f...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Takahashi A,Hara H,Kurahashi H,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The yeast, fungal and mammalian prions determine heritable and infectious traits that are encoded in alternative conformations of proteins. They cause lethal sporadic, familial and infectious neurodegenerative conditions in man, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Safar JG

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Prions are responsible for a heterogeneous group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases. They can be sporadic, genetic, or infectious disorders involving post-translational modifications of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)). Prions (PrP(Sc)) are characterized by their infectious property and intrinsic ability to conver...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Benetti F,Legname G

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00