Advanced situation with recombinant toxins: Diversity, production and application purposes

E Efremenko, A Aslanli, I Lyagin - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Today, the production and use of various samples of recombinant protein/polypeptide toxins
is known and is actively develo**. This review presents state-of-the-art in research and …

Immunotherapy against prion disease

Y Ma, J Ma - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
The term “prion disease” encompasses a group of neurodegenerative diseases affecting
both humans and animals. Currently, there is no effective therapy and all forms of prion …

Norwegian moose CWD induces clinical disease and neuroinvasion in gene-targeted mice expressing cervid S138N prion protein

MI Arifin, S Hannaoui, RA Ng, D Zeng… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease affecting deer, elk and moose in North
America and reindeer, moose and red deer in Northern Europe. Pathogenesis is driven by …

The role of cellular prion protein in cancer biology: a potential therapeutic target

M Ding, Y Chen, Y Lang, L Cui - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Prion protein has two isoforms including cellular prion protein (PrPC) and scrapie prion
protein (PrPSc). PrPSc is the pathological aggregated form of prion protein and it plays an …

Cellulose ether treatment in vivo generates chronic wasting disease prions with reduced protease resistance and delayed disease progression

S Hannaoui, MI Arifin, SC Chang, J Yu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease of free‐ranging and farmed cervids that is
highly contagious because of extensive prion shedding and prion persistence in the …

Therapeutic perspectives for prion diseases in humans and animals

R Benavente, R Morales - PLoS pathogens, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders affecting several mammals
including humans, cattle, cervids, sheep, goats, and others [1–3]. These diseases are driven …

Metformin reduces prion infection in neuronal cells by enhancing autophagy

DH Abdelaziz, S Thapa, B Abdulrahman… - Biochemical and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Prion diseases are fatal infectious neurodegenerative disorders in human and animals that
are caused by misfolding of the cellular prion protein (PrP C) into the infectious isoform PrP …

Therapeutic development of polymers for prion disease

K Teruya, K Doh-Ura - Cell and Tissue Research, 2023 - Springer
Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are caused by
the accumulation of abnormal isoforms of the prion protein (scrapie isoform of the prion …

Investigating CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive for production of disease-preventing prion gene alleles

AR Castle, S Wohlgemuth, L Arce, D Westaway - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that includes chronic
wasting disease, which affects cervids and is highly transmissible. Given that chronic …

Mouse models of chronic wasting disease: A review

M Cook, T Hensley-McBain, A Grindeland - Frontiers in Virology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Animal models are essential tools for investigating and understanding complex prion
diseases like chronic wasting disease (CWD), an infectious prion disease of cervids (elk …