Prions and neurodegenerative diseases: a focus on Alzheimer's disease

A Crestini, F Santilli, S Martellucci… - Journal of …, 2022 - content.iospress.com
Specific protein misfolding and aggregation are mechanisms underlying various
neurodegenerative diseases such as prion disease and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The …

YAP/TAZ signalling in colorectal cancer: Lessons from consensus molecular subtypes

S Mouillet-Richard, P Laurent-Puig - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a heterogeneous disease that can be divided
into 4 consensus molecular subtypes (CMS) according to molecular profiling. The CMS …

A proof of concept for targeting the PrPC - Amyloid β peptide interaction in basal prostate cancer and mesenchymal colon cancer

S Mouillet-Richard, S Martin-Lannerée, D Le Corre… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
The cellular prion protein PrPC partners with caveolin-1 (CAV1) in neurodegenerative
diseases but whether this interplay occurs in cancer has never been investigated. By …

[HTML][HTML] The prion protein and its ligands: Insights into structure-function relationships

M Shafiq, S Da Vela, L Amin, N Younas… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
The prion protein is a multifunctional protein that exists in at least two different folding states.
It is subject to diverse proteolytic processing steps that lead to prion protein fragments some …

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Mediated by recPrPC Involved in the Neuronal Differentiation Process of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

S Martellucci, C Santacroce, F Santilli, L Piccoli… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells (hDPSCs) represent a type of adult mesenchymal stem cells
that have the ability to differentiate in vitro in several lineages such as odontoblasts …

The cellular prion protein controls the mesenchymal-like molecular subtype and predicts disease outcome in colorectal cancer

D Le Corre, A Ghazi, R Balogoun, C Pilati, T Aparicio… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Comprehensive transcriptomic analyses have shown that colorectal cancer
(CRC) is heterogeneous and have led to the definition of molecular subtypes among which …

The cellular prion protein and the hallmarks of cancer

S Mouillet-Richard, A Ghazi, P Laurent-Puig - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The cellular prion protein PrPC is best known for its involvement, under its
pathogenic isoform, in a group of neurodegenerative diseases. Notwithstanding, an …

Emerging roles of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) and 37/67 kDa laminin receptor (RPSA) interaction in cancer biology

A Limone, V Maggisano, D Sarnataro… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
The cellular prion protein (PrPC) is well-known for its involvement, under its pathogenic
protease-resistant form (PrPSc), in a group of neurodegenerative diseases, known as prion …

Prion protein in stem cells: A lipid raft component involved in the cellular differentiation process

S Martellucci, C Santacroce, F Santilli… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The prion protein (PrP) is an enigmatic molecule with a pleiotropic effect on different cell
types; it is localized stably in lipid raft microdomains and it is able to recruit downstream …

Prognostic value of the PrPC-ILK-IDO1 axis in the mesenchymal colorectal cancer subtype

A Ghazi, D Le Corre, C Pilati, J Taieb, T Aparicio… - …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The CMS4 mesenchymal subtype of colorectal cancer (CRC) is associated with poor
prognosis and resistance to treatment. The cellular prion protein PrPC is overexpressed in …