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 5 (May)

1. Purkinje-cell degeneration in prion protein-deficient mice is associated with a cerebellum-specific Doppel protein species signature.
   FEBS Lett, 579(12): 2715-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. The presence of valine at residue 129 in human prion protein accelerates amyloid formation.
   FEBS Lett, 579(12): 2589-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Detection of prion protein using a capillary electrophoresis-based competitive immunoassay with laser-induced fluorescence detection and cyclodextrin-aided separation.
   Electrophoresis, 26(9): 1751-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Filaments of the Ure2p prion protein have a cross-beta core structure.
   J Struct Biol, 150(2): 170-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Copper(II) inhibits in vitro conversion of prion protein into amyloid fibrils.
   Biochemistry, 44(18): 6776-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The scrapie prion protein is present in flotillin-1-positive vesicles in central- but not peripheral-derived neuronal cell lines.
   Eur J Neurosci, 21(8): 2063-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Mapping PrPSc propagation in experimental and natural scrapie in sheep with different PrP genotypes.
   Vet Pathol, 42(3): 258-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. High incidence of genetic human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in Italy.
   Neurology, 64(9): 1592-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Interaction of the 106-126 prion peptide with lipid membranes and potential implication for neurotoxicity.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 331(4): 894-901. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a patient with an R208H mutation of the prion protein gene (PRNP) and a 17-kDa prion protein fragment.
    Acta Neuropathol (Berl), 109(4): 443-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Biological and biochemical characteristics of prion strains conserved in persistently infected cell cultures.
    J Virol, 79(11): 7104-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. A cylinder-shaped double ribbon structure formed by an amyloid hairpin peptide derived from the beta-sheet of murine PrP: an X-ray and molecular dynamics simulation study.
    J Struct Biol, 150(3): 284-99. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Immunohistochemical studies of scrapie archival material from Irish ARQ/ARQ sheep for evidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy-derived disease.
    Res Vet Sci, 79(1): 29-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Expression of prion protein in the gut of mice infected orally with the 301V murine strain of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent.
    J Comp Pathol, 132(4): 273-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Protein misfolding and amyloid formation for the peptide GNNQQNY from yeast prion protein Sup35: simulation by reaction path annealing.
    J Mol Biol, 349(3): 648-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Cell line dependent RNA expression profiles of prion-infected mouse neuronal cells.
    J Mol Biol, 349(3): 487-500. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase by cellular prion protein and its role in cell survival.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 332(1): 75-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Concentration of prion protein from biological samples to increase the limits of detection by immunoassay.
    Biotechnol Appl Biochem, 41: 247-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. High-resolution H/D exchange studies on the HET-s218-295 prion protein.
    J Mass Spectrom, 40(5): 580-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Interaction of PrP with NRAGE, a protein involved in neuronal apoptosis.
    Mol Cell Neurosci, 29(2): 232-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Prion and water: tight and dynamical hydration sites have a key role in structural stability.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102(21): 7535-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Prion protein (PrPc) promotes beta-amyloid plaque formation.
    Neurobiol Aging, 26(8): 1177-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Systematic identification of antiprion drugs by high-throughput screening based on scanning for intensely fluorescent targets.
    J Virol, 79(12): 7785-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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