[PDF][PDF] Amyloid fibril formation and protein misassembly: a structural quest for insights into amyloid and prion diseases

JW Kelly - Structure, 1997 - cell.com
… on our current understanding of TTR amyloid fibril formation. Our present knowledge of this
… associated amyloid diseases are better understood than any other human amyloid disease […

Formation and properties of amyloid fibrils of prion protein

K Yamaguchi, K Kuwata - Biophysical Reviews, 2018 - Springer
Amyloid fibrils formed from prion protein (PrP) are associated with prion diseases. In this …
PrP amyloid fibrils in vitro. We first examined the effects of ultrasonic power on the induction of …

[HTML][HTML] Genesis of mammalian prions: from non-infectious amyloid fibrils to a transmissible prion disease

N Makarava, GG Kovacs, R Savtchenko… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
prion disease can be generated de novo in wild type animals by recombinant PrP (rPrP)
amyloid fibrils… When induced by rPrP fibrils, a long silent stage that involved two serial passages …

Genetic prion disease–related mutation E196K displays a novel amyloid fibril structure revealed by cryo-EM

LQ Wang, K Zhao, HY Yuan, XN Li, HB Dang, Y Ma… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
… in human PrP, leading to genetic prion diseases with distinct clinical syndromes. … amyloid
fibril formed by full-length human PrP with E196K mutation, a genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

A kinetic model for amyloid formation in the prion diseases: importance of seeding.

JH Come, PE Fraser… - Proceedings of the …, 1993 - National Acad Sciences
… PrP and the (-amyloid protein of Mzhelmer disease share a … ) forms amyloid fibrils. The
existence of a kinetic barrier to … The brains ofGSS patients contain amyloid fibrils composed ofan …

Amyloid fibril proteins

Y Xing, K Higuchi - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2002 - Elsevier
… β-sheet fibrils is the most important event in amyloid diseases. The … amyloid diseases, AD,
prion diseases and mouse senile amyloidosis in which Aβ, PrP Sc and AApoAII amyloid fibrils

Amyloid fibrils from the N-terminal prion protein fragment are infectious

JK Choi, I Cali, K Surewicz, Q Kong… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
… cofactors in prion infectivity as well as the structural basis of prion formation. In … amyloid
fibrils generated from bacterially expressed prion protein fragment 23-144 cause prion disease

Cryo-EM structure of an amyloid fibril formed by full-length human prion protein

LQ Wang, K Zhao, HY Yuan, Q Wang, Z Guan… - Nature Structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
… develop neurodegeneration characteristic of prion disease after long … PrP fibrils should
contribute to our understanding of prion disease. Here we assemble homogeneous amyloid fibrils

Copper (II) inhibits in vitro conversion of prion protein into amyloid fibrils

OV Bocharova, L Breydo, VV Salnikov… - Biochemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
… these amyloid fibrils of Mo rPrP 89−230 induced prion disease … the amyloid fibrils, however,
suggests that the fibrils generated … in production of infections prions? One may speculate that …

In vitro conversion of mammalian prion protein into amyloid fibrils displays unusual features

IV Baskakov, OV Bocharova - Biochemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
… Our findings support the hypothesis that development of prion disease is controlled by a
fine dynamic balance between self-propagation and clearance/deactivation of PrP Sc . …