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 5 (2009), Issue 5 (May)

1. Lack of association between PRNP 1368 polymorphism and Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia.
   BMC Med Genet, 10: 32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Neuroglobin and prion cellular localization: investigation of a potential interaction.
   J Mol Biol, 388(5): 968-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Scrapie-infected transgenic mice expressing a laminin receptor decoy mutant reveal a prolonged incubation time associated with low levels of PrPres.
   J Mol Biol, 388(4): 721-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Rapid folding of the prion protein captured by pressure-jump.
   Eur Biophys J, 38(5): 625-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Integrity of H1 helix in prion protein revealed by molecular dynamic simulations to be especially vulnerable to changes in the relative orientation of H1 and its S1 flank.
   Eur Biophys J, 38(5): 601-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The toxicity of prion protein fragment PrP(106-126) is not mediated by membrane permeabilization as shown by a M112W substitution.
   Biochemistry, 48(19): 4198-208. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Prion protein glycosylation is not required for strain-specific neurotropism.
   J Virol, 83(11): 5321-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Design of anti- and pro-aggregation variants to assess the effects of methionine oxidation in human prion protein.
   Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(19): 7756-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Surround optical fiber immunoassay (SOFIA): an ultra-sensitive assay for prion protein detection.
   J Virol Methods, 159(1): 15-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Prion protein on astrocytes or in extracellular fluid impedes neurodegeneration induced by truncated prion protein.
    Exp Neurol, 217(2): 347-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. p53-Dependent transcriptional control of cellular prion by presenilins.
    J Neurosci, 29(20): 6752-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Tuning the conformational properties of the prion peptide.
    Proteins, 76(1): 213-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Prion proteins in subpopulations of white blood cells from patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
    Lab Invest, 89(6): 624-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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