The Hsp70/Hsp90 chaperone machinery in neurodegenerative diseases

RE Lackie, A Maciejewski, VG Ostapchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the human brain is one of the critical features of
many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Assembles of beta …

The biological function of the cellular prion protein: an update

MA Wulf, A Senatore, A Aguzzi - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
The misfolding of the cellular prion protein (PrP C) causes fatal neurodegenerative
diseases. Yet PrP C is highly conserved in mammals, suggesting that it exerts beneficial …

Prions

SB Prusiner - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Prions are unprecedented infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal
neurodegenerative diseases by an entirely novel mechanism. Prion diseases may present …

Prion diseases of humans and animals: their causes and molecular basis

J Collinge - Annual review of neuroscience, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions that include
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) …

NMR structure of the mouse prion protein domain PrP (121–231)

R Riek, S Hornemann, G Wider, M Billeter… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
THE'protein only'hypothesis1 states that a modified form of normal prion protein triggers
infectious neurodegenerative diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) …

Physiological functions of the cellular prion protein

AR Castle, AC Gill - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The prion protein, PrPC, is a small, cell-surface glycoprotein notable primarily for its critical
role in pathogenesis of the neurodegenerative disorders known as prion diseases. A …

Prion protein biology

SB Prusiner, MR Scott, SJ DeArmond, FE Cohen - cell, 1998 - cell.com
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[HTML][HTML] A delicate balance: homeostatic control of copper uptake and distribution

MMO Peña, J Lee, DJ Thiele - The Journal of nutrition, 1999 - Elsevier
The cellular uptake and intracellular distribution of the essential but highly toxic nutrient,
copper, is a precisely orchestrated process. Copper homeostasis is coordinated by several …

A noradrenergic-hypothalamic neural substrate for stress-induced sleep disturbances

H Antila, I Kwak, A Choi, A Pisciotti… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
In our daily life, we are exposed to uncontrollable and stressful events that disrupt our sleep.
However, the underlying neural mechanisms deteriorating the quality of non-rapid eye …

Physiology of the prion protein

R Linden, VR Martins, MAM Prado… - Physiological …, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Prion diseases are transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), attributed to
conformational conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) into an abnormal conformer …