supported by Telethon Italy award GGP15225(to RC and GM);Italian Ministry of Health award RF-2016-02362950(to RC and CZ);the CJD Foundation USA(to RC);the Associazione Italiana Encefalopatie da Prioni(AIEnP)(to RC).
PrPSc,a misfolded,aggregation-prone isoform of the cellular prion protein(PrPC),is the infectious prion agent responsible for fatal neurodegenerative diseases of humans and other mammals.PrPSccan adopt different patho...
supported by SKLID Development Grants(2021SKLID504,2019SKLID401,2019SKLID603,and 2016SKLID603);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81772197,81401670,and 81630062)。
Objective To analyze the relationship between Chemokine IP10 and its receptor CXCR3 during prion infection.Methods We investigated the increases in IP10 signals,primarily localized in neurons within the brains of scra...
funded in part by the Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases(CEZID)of the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences underaward number P20GM130448.
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies(TSEs)are a group of progressive and ultimately fatal neurologic diseases of man and animals,all resulting from the propagated misfolding of the host's normal cellular prion pr...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82071424);the Zhejiang University Education Foundation Global Partnership Fund(188170+194452115/011).
The accumulation and spread of prion-like proteins is a key feature of neurodegenerative diseases(NDs)such as Alzheimer’s disease,Parkinson's disease,or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.In a process known as‘seeding’,...
National Natural Science Foundation(NSF)of China,Grant/Award Numbers:82188101,32171236,31872716,32170683;the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(STCSM),Grant/Award Numbers:20XD1425000,2019SHZDZX02;the Shanghai Pilot Program for Basic Research–Chinese Academy of Science,Shanghai Branch,Grant/Award Number:CYJ-SHFY-2022-005。
Protein amyloid aggregation has been widely observed to occur and plays impor-tant roles in both physiological processes and pathological diseases.Remarkably,amyloid aggregates assembled by native proteins gain a vari...
Supported by SKLID Development Grant(2021SKLID506,2019SKLID501,2019SKLID603,2021SKLID101);National Natural Science Foundation of China(81572048).
The studies of prions and prion disease usually need many special platforms and techniques that differ from those for classical microbes.Search of new biomarkers and establishment of new methods for the diagnosis of h...
Supported by National Key R&D Program of China(2020YFE0205700);SKLID Development Grant(2021SKLID503,2021SKLID504,2019SKLID401);National Natural Science Foundation of China(81772197,81630062,81401670).
The study describes some of the major findings of changes in intracellular components and biological pathways in the brain during prion infection and hypothesizes some important physiological and pathological approach...
supported by National Key R&D Program of China [2020YFE0205700];Chinese National Natural Science Foundation Grants [81630062];grants from the State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control(China CDC)[Grant Nos.2019SKLID501,2019SKLID603,and 2019SKLID307]
Objective To describe the global profiles of acetylated proteins in the brains of scrapie agents 139Aand ME7-infected mice collected at mid-early,mid-late,and terminal stages.Methods The acetylated proteins from the c...
supported by grants from Alberta Innovates/Alberta Prion Research Institute(APRI grants 201600010 and 201900008)(to HMS);ST had received a University of Calgary Eyes High,Killam and Alberta Innovates Health Solution(AIHS)doctoral fellowship.
Prion diseases are infectious protein misfolding disorders of the central nervous system that result from misfolding of the cellular prion protein(PrPC)into the pathologic isoform PrPSc.Pathologic hallmarks of prion d...