Prions

SB Prusiner - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1998‏ - pnas.org
Prions are unprecedented infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal
neurodegenerative diseases by an entirely novel mechanism. Prion diseases may present …

Amyloid cross-seeding: mechanism, implication, and inhibition

S Subedi, S Sasidharan, N Nag, P Saudagar, T Tripathi - Molecules, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's
disease, etc. are caused by inclusions and plaques containing misfolded protein …

Evidence for α-synuclein prions causing multiple system atrophy in humans with parkinsonism

SB Prusiner, AL Woerman, DA Mordes… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
Prions are proteins that adopt alternative conformations that become self-propagating; the
PrPSc prion causes the rare human disorder Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). We report …

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Human Diseases: Introducing the D2 Concept

VN Uversky, CJ Oldfield, AK Dunker - Annu. Rev. Biophys., 2008‏ - annualreviews.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack stable tertiary and/or secondary structures under
physiological conditions in vitro. They are highly abundant in nature and their functional …

Sensitive detection of pathological prion protein by cyclic amplification of protein misfolding

GP Saborio, B Permanne, C Soto - Nature, 2001‏ - nature.com
Prions are the infectious agents responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
The principal component of prions is the glycoprotein PrPSc, which is a conformationally …

Prions

DW Colby, SB Prusiner - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2011‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The discovery of infectious proteins, denoted prions, was unexpected. After much debate
over the chemical basis of heredity, resolution of this issue began with the discovery that …

Quenching quorum-sensing-dependent bacterial infection by an N-acyl homoserine lactonase

YH Dong, LH Wang, JL Xu, HB Zhang, XF Zhang… - Nature, 2001‏ - nature.com
Bacterial cells sense their population density through a sophisticated cell–cell
communication system and trigger expression of particular genes when the density reaches …

Mammalian prions and their wider relevance in neurodegenerative diseases

J Collinge - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
Prions are notorious protein-only infectious agents that cause invariably fatal brain diseases
following silent incubation periods that can span a lifetime. These diseases can arise …

Prion diseases of humans and animals: their causes and molecular basis

J Collinge - Annual review of neuroscience, 2001‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions that include
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) …

Molecular analysis of prion strain variation and the aetiology of'new variant'CJD

J Collinge, KCL Sidle, J Meads, J Ironside, AF Hill - Nature, 1996‏ - nature.com
Strains of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are distinguished by differing physico-
chemical properties of PrPSc, the disease-related isoform of prion protein, which can be …