Chronic wasting disease in Europe: new strains on the horizon

MA Tranulis, D Gavier-Widén, J Våge… - Acta Veterinaria …, 2021 - Springer
Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders with known natural occurrence in
humans and a few other mammalian species. The diseases are experimentally …

Recent advances in the histo‐molecular pathology of human prion disease

S Baiardi, M Rossi, S Capellari, P Parchi - Brain Pathology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Prion diseases are progressive neurodegenerative disorders affecting humans and other
mammalian species. The term prion, originally put forward to propose the concept that a …

Detection of amyloid fibrils in Parkinson's disease using plasmonic chirality

J Kumar, H Eraña, E López-Martínez… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Amyloid fibrils, which are closely associated with various neurodegenerative diseases, are
the final products in many protein aggregation pathways. The identification of fibrils at low …

Bank vole prion protein as an apparently universal substrate for RT-QuIC-based detection and discrimination of prion strains

CD Orrú, BR Groveman, LD Raymond… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Prions propagate as multiple strains in a wide variety of mammalian species. The detection
of all such strains by a single ultrasensitive assay such as Real Time Quaking-induced …

Studies in bank voles reveal strain differences between chronic wasting disease prions from Norway and North America

R Nonno, MA Di Bari, L Pirisinu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a relentless epidemic disorder caused by infectious
prions that threatens the survival of cervid populations and raises increasing public health …

Human stem cell–derived astrocytes replicate human prions in a PRNP genotype–dependent manner

Z Krejciova, J Alibhai, C Zhao, R Krencik… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
Prions are infectious agents that cause neurodegenerative diseases such as Creutzfeldt–
Jakob disease (CJD). The absence of a human cell culture model that replicates human …

Sub-ångström cryo-EM structure of a prion protofibril reveals a polar clasp

M Gallagher-Jones, C Glynn, DR Boyer… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
The atomic structure of the infectious, protease-resistant, β-sheet-rich and fibrillar
mammalian prion remains unknown. Through the cryo-EM method MicroED, we reveal the …

The molecular determinants of a universal prion acceptor

H Arshad, Z Patel, ZAM Al-Azzawi, G Amano, L Li… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
In prion diseases, the species barrier limits the transmission of prions from one species to
another. However, cross-species prion transmission is remarkably efficient in bank voles …

The ecology of chronic wasting disease in wildlife

LE Escobar, S Pritzkow, SN Winter, DA Grear… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Prions are misfolded infectious proteins responsible for a group of fatal neurodegenerative
diseases termed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion diseases. Chronic …

Phenotypic diversity of genetic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: a histo-molecular-based classification

S Baiardi, M Rossi, A Mammana, BS Appleby… - Acta …, 2021 - Springer
The current classification of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD) includes six major
clinicopathological subtypes defined by the physicochemical properties of the protease …