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 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...
supported by grants from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and The Research Council of Norway(227386/E40).
The cellular prion protein PrPC has been extensively studied because it can adopt a pathogenic three-dimensional conformation that causes rare,but invariably fatal,neurodegenerative prion diseases in humans and other ...
funded by the Polish National Science Centre MINIATURA3,grant No.501/66 GR-6220(to TI)。
The baker's yeast Saccharomyces(S.)cerevisiae is a single-celled eukaryotic model organism widely used in research on life sciences.Being a unicellular organism,S.cerevisiae has some evident limitations in application...
Human prion-like proteins often correspond to nucleic acid binding proteins,displaying both globular domains and long intrinsically disordered regions(IDRs)(Harrison and Shorter,2017).Their IDRs are of low complexity ...
Neurodegenerative disorders are often associated with cellular dysfunction caused by underlying protein-misfolding signalling. Numerous neuropathologies are diagnosed at late stage symptomatic changes which occur in r...
Alzheimer’s disease,Parkinson’s disease,Huntington’s disease,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,and prion disease are representative neurodegenerative diseases that share common sub-cellular features,the most obvious of...
funded by grants from the Alberta Prion Research Institute;the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories;the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council(NSERC)of Canada;supported by the Canada Research Chair program;a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation(DFG)
Despite intensive research,most neurodegenerative diseases cannot be cured and for some of them no treatment is available to increase survival or quality of life.Among the latter are prion diseases,fatal and transmiss...
The infectious template-mediated protein conversion is a unique mechanism for the onset of rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorders known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases, which affect...
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases are the most common neurodegenerative diseases. They are characterized by protein aggregates and so can be considered as prion-like disease. The major components of these deposit...