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Prion diseases {\it (e.g. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), variant CJD (vCJD), Gerstmann-Str$\ddot{\text{a}}$ussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) and Kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-19 Jiapu Zhang

Prion diseases are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases affecting humans and animals. By now there have not been some effective therapeutic approaches to treat all these prion diseases. In 2008, canine mammals…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2012-10-16 Jiapu Zhang

Prion diseases cover a large range of neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals, which are invariably fatal and highly infectious. By now there have not been some effective therapeutic approaches or medications to treat all prion…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Jiapu Zhang

Prion diseases are invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases that affect humans and animals. Unlike most other amyloid forming neurodegenerative diseases, these can be highly infectious. Prion diseases occur in a variety of species. They…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Jiapu Zhang , Feng Wang

Prion diseases are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of mammalian species such as sheep, goats, mice, humans, chimpanzees, hamsters, cattle, elks, deer, minks, cats, chicken, pigs,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-02 Jiapu Zhang , Yuanli Zhang

Prion is a misfolded protein found in mammals that causes infectious diseases of the nervous system in humans and animals. Prion diseases are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 Jiapu Zhang , Feng Wang

Prion diseases are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of mammalian species such as sheep and goats, cattle, deer, elks, humans and mice etc., but rabbits have a low susceptibility to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Jiapu Zhang , Feng Wang

Prion diseases (e.g. "mad cow" disease in cattle, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, CJD in humans) have been a major public health concern affecting humans and almost all animals. However, dogs are strongly resistant to prion…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Jiapu Zhang

Prion diseases or called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are fatal neurodegenerative diseases characterised by the accumulation of an abnormal prion protein isoform (rich in beta-sheets - about 30% alpha-helix and 43% beta-sheet),…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Jiapu Zhang

It was reported that buffalo is a low susceptibility species resisting to prion diseases, which are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of species. In molecular structures, TSE…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 Jiapu Zhang , Feng Wang , Subhojyoti Chatterjee

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease, that causes approximately 350 deaths in the United States every year. In specific, it is a prion disease that is caused by a misfolded prion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Arnav Bhakta , Carolyn Byrne

Prion-like proteins play crucial parts in biological processes in organisms ranging from yeast to humans. For instance, many neurodegenerative diseases are believed to be caused by the production of prion-like proteins in neural tissue. As…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Johannes G. Borgqvist , Christoffer Gretarsson Alexandersen

Prion diseases are associated with the misfolding of the normal helical cellular form of prion protein (PrPC) into the beta-sheet-rich scrapie form (PrPSc) and the subsequent aggregation of PrPSc into amyloid fibrils. Recent studies…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Yiming Tang , Yifei Yao , Guanghong Wei

Molecular dynamics (MD) studies of buffalo prion protein (BufPrP$^\text{C}$) [Zhang JP et al.(2016) J Biomol Struct Dyn 34(4):762-777] showed that the structure of this protein is very stable at room temperature (whether under neutral pH or…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Jiapu Zhang

In this paper we will review various aspects of the biology of prions and focus on what is currently known about the mammalian PrP prion. Also we briefly describe the prions of yeast and other fungi. Prions are infectious proteins behaving…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-20 Veronica Ines Cacace

Prion diseases caused by the conversion from a soluble normal cellular prion protein into insoluble abnormally folded infectious prions, are invariably fatal and highly infectious degenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-04 Jiapu Zhang , Yuanli Zhang

Many neurodegenerative diseases are related to the propagation and accumulation of toxic proteins throughout the brain. The lesions created by aggregates of these toxic proteins further lead to cell death and accelerated tissue atrophy. A…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-17 Johannes Weickenmeier , Ellen Kuhl , Alain Goriely

Prion and prion-like molecules are a type of self replicating aggregate protein that have been implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. Over recent decades the molecular dynamics of prions have been characterized both…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-06 Saul Acevedo , Alexander J. Stewart

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies like the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans are neurodegenerative diseases for which prions are the attributed pathogenic agents. A widely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Ferreira , M. A. A. da Silva , J. C. Cressoni

In the template-assistance model, normal prion protein (PrPC), the pathogenic cause of prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) in human, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cow, and scrapie in sheep, converts to infectious…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-02-03 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Chun-Ping Yu , HC Lee
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