Biological and biochemical characterization of L-type-like bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) detected in Japanese black beef cattle.

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 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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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