A bipolar personality of yeast prion proteins.

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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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 protein, PrP(C), is a glycoprotein that is expressed on the cell surface beginning with the early stages of embryonic stem cell differentiation. Previously, we showed that ectopic expression of PrP(C) in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) triggered differentiation toward endodermal, mesodermal, and ectodermal li...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Lee YJ,Baskakov IV

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Each known abnormal prion protein (PrP (Sc) ) is considered to have a specific range and therefore the ability to infect some species and not others. Consequently, some species have been assumed to be prion disease resistant as no successful natural or experimental challenge infections have been reported. This assumpt...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Fernández-Borges N,Chianini F,Eraña H,Vidal E,Eaton SL,Pintado B,Finlayson J,Dagleish MP,Castilla J

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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