Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that destroys the brains of cervids, which are members of the deer family Cervidae. This disease group also includes scrapie in sheep and goats, mad ...

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Prion disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the accumulation and misfolding of prion protein (PrP) in neurons. There are currently no approved therapies, and the disease is always fatal.

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The authors performed extensive coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of 140 different prion-like domain variants to interrogate how specific amino acid substitutions determine the driving ...

Prions represent a new class of infectious agents which propagate on a protein-only level, not requiring agent-encoded nucleic acids. Newly emergent prion diseases such as bovine spongiform ...

2018; Yang et al., 2020). Whether, in prion-infected neurons, the freezing of caveolae in the cytosol caused by the excessive phosphorylation of Cav1 at Tyr14 affects the elastic properties of the ...

Many questions surround the underlying mechanism for the differential metabolic processing observed for the prion protein (PrP) in healthy and prion-infected mammals. Foremost, the physiological ...

Some rare forms of dementia, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are caused by a type of protein called a prion. In these conditions, the prions misfold into a toxic form and then spread ...