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 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...
This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31170717, 31470034, and 31270777).
The cellular prion protein (PrP^C) is a kind of cell-surface Cu^2+-binding glycoprotein. The oligomerization of PrP^C is highly related to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Cu^2+ plays a vital ro...
Rabbits have low susceptibility to prion infection. Studies on prion protein (PrP) from animal species of different sus- ceptibility to prion diseases identified key amino acid resi- dues, specific motif, and specia...
Funding This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81101302, 31270185), China Mega-Project for Infectious Disease (2011ZX10004-101, 2012ZX10004215), and SKLID Development Grant (2012SKLID102).
Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalop- athies, are neurodegenerative diseases, which affect human and many species of animals with 100% fatality rate. The most accepted etiology for prion disease is ...
Funding This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31170717, 91129713, and 30900233).
The prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are fatal neurodegenerative disorders. According to the 'protein only' hypothesis, the key molecular event in the pathogenesis of priori d...
The infectious agent of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases, has been the center of intense debate for decades. Years of studies have provided overwhelming evidence to support the prion hy...
Funding This work was supported by the grants from the National Key Basic Research Foundation of China (Grants 2013CB910702 and 2012CB911003), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 31170744 and 30970599), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant 1104006).
Prion diseases and prion-like protein misfolding diseases involve the accumulation of abnormally aggregated forms of the normal host proteins, such as prion protein and Tau protein. These proteins are special because ...