Prions in the environment: occurrence, fate and mitigation.

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：:M2B cells with persistent classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (C-BSE) have been established previously. In this study, we performed strain characterization of the M2B cell line in bovine PrPC overexpressing mice (Tg 1896). Mice intracranially inoculated with M2B cells and C-BSE survived for 451 ± 7 and 465 ± 31...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Suh TY,Roh IS,Kim HJ,Griffiths PC,Park KJ,Park HC,Hope J,Kang HE,Kim DY,Sohn HJ

更新日期：2017-11-02 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：: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：: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：:Studies of the ovine prion-related protein (testis-specific) gene (PRNT), including studies of genetic diversity, have highlighted its potential relationship to scrapie infection and economically important ovine traits. PRNT was previously reported to be highly polymorphic in Portuguese sheep. To characterize genetic ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Li J,Zhang S,Erdenee S,Sun X,Dang R,Huang Y,Lei C,Chen H,Xu H,Cai Y,Lan X

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:We propose models for in vitro grown mammalian prion protein fibrils based upon left handed beta helices formed both from the N-terminal and C-terminal regions of the proteinase resistant infectious prion core. The C-terminal threading onto a beta-helical structure is almost uniquely determined by fixing the cysteine ...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Kunes KC,Clark SC,Cox DL,Singh RR

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：: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 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 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：: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：: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：: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：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are clinically overlapping neurodegenerative disorders whose pathophysiology remains incompletely understood. ALS initiates in a discrete location, and typically progresses in a pattern consistent with spread of the degenerative process t...

journal_title：Prion

authors： Udan M,Baloh RH

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：: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