Prions Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Prions, including details on mad cow disease, scrapie, cjd.

Volume 1 (2005), Issue 10 (October)

1. Proteolytic processing of the ovine prion protein in cell cultures.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 337(1): 232-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. The clearance of viruses and transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents from biologicals.
   Curr Opin Biotechnol, 16(5): 561-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. An alternative pretreatment procedure in animal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies diagnosis using PrPsc immunohistochemistry.
   J Histochem Cytochem, 53(10): 1199-202. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Copper brain homeostasis: role of amyloid precursor protein and prion protein.
   IUBMB Life, 57(9): 645-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Characterization of oligomeric species in the fibrillization pathway of the yeast prion Ure2p.
   Biol Chem, 386(7): 633-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Proper axonal distribution of PrP(C) depends on cholesterol-sphingomyelin-enriched membrane domains and is developmentally regulated in hippocampal neurons.
   Mol Cell Neurosci, 30(3): 304-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Coincident scrapie infection and nephritis lead to urinary prion excretion.
   Science, 310(5746): 324-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Bovine PrPC directly interacts with alphaB-crystalline.
   FEBS Lett, 579(24): 5419-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Reciprocal interference between specific CJD and scrapie agents in neural cell cultures.
   Science, 310(5747): 493-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Prion proteins from susceptible and resistant sheep exhibit some distinct cell biological features.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 337(3): 791-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Molecular evolution of the sheep prion protein gene.
    Proc Biol Sci, 272(1579): 2371-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Reactive oxygen species-mediated beta-cleavage of the prion protein in the cellular response to oxidative stress.
    J Biol Chem, 280(43): 35914-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Tissue plasminogen activator in brain tissues infected with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
    Neurobiol Dis, 20(2): 519-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Aggravation of ischemic brain injury by prion protein deficiency: role of ERK-1/-2 and STAT-1.
    Neurobiol Dis, 20(2): 442-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The membrane environment of endogenous cellular prion protein in primary rat cerebellar neurons.
    J Neurochem, 95(3): 771-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. PrPTSE distribution in a primate model of variant, sporadic, and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
    J Virol, 79(22): 14339-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Assigning functions to distinct regions of the N-terminus of the prion protein that are involved in its copper-stimulated, clathrin-dependent endocytosis.
    J Cell Sci, 118: 5141-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Charged bipolar suramin derivatives induce aggregation of the prion protein at the cell surface and inhibit PrPSc replication.
    J Cell Sci, 118: 4959-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Membrane perturbation effects of peptides derived from the N-termini of unprocessed prion proteins.
    Biochim Biophys Acta, 1716(2): 126-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Structure of the prion Ure2p in protein fibrils assembled in vitro.
    J Biol Chem, 280(44): 37149-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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