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 6 (2010), Issue 5 (May)

1. Mammalian prions generated from bacterially expressed prion protein in the absence of any mammalian cofactors.
   J Biol Chem, 285(19): 14083-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Species-dependent differences in cofactor utilization for formation of the protease-resistant prion protein in vitro.
   Biochemistry, 49(18): 3928-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Coinfecting prion strains compete for a limiting cellular resource.
   J Virol, 84(11): 5706-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Memory impairment in transgenic Alzheimer mice requires cellular prion protein.
   J Neurosci, 30(18): 6367-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Changing the solvent accessibility of the prion protein disulfide bond markedly influences its trafficking and effect on cell function.
   Biochem J, 428(2): 169-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Caprine PRNP polymorphisms at codons 171, 211, 222 and 240 in a Greek herd and their association with classical scrapie.
   J Gen Virol, 91: 1629-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Immunotherapeutic effect of anti-PrP monoclonal antibodies in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy mouse models: pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis.
   J Gen Virol, 91: 1635-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Cellular factors implicated in prion replication.
   FEBS Lett, 584(11): 2409-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Prion strain mutation determined by prion protein conformational compatibility and primary structure.
   Science, 328(5982): 1154-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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