A prime example of proteins that catalyze their own conformational change into the toxic form is the prion proteins ... to the prevention of protein misfolding. Despite chaperone actions, some ...

They can be genetic, sporadic—without known cause—or acquired, in which exposure to abnormal prion protein induces misfolding of the host’s own normal prion proteins. While prion disorders like ...

A new study reveals a possible protein misfolding mechanism that may resolve a long-standing mystery of why certain proteins refold into unexpected patterns. Proteins are long molecules that must fold ...

The video shows the mechanism by which the aggregated and infectious form of the prion protein (red ... and itself promotes the misfolding of another normal protein nearby. Once they reach ...

also called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), results from the misfolding of a normal prion protein—an essential protein ...

Saborio, G.P. et al. Sensitive detection of pathological prion protein by cyclic amplification of protein misfolding. Nature 411, 810–813 (2001).

Now, a team of researchers from BSRC Fleming and the Centre for Misfolding Diseases at the ... (linked to Machado-Joseph disease), and the prion protein (implicated in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines two types of CJD: classical, which generally arises through spontaneous protein misfolding in the brain, and variant CJD (vCJD), which is ...

Accumulation of a protein called TDP-43 is a key feature of ALS and frontotemporal dementia. In a study published in Neuron, ...

The research in Professor Zagorski's group focuses on unraveling the molecular mechanisms associated with protein misfolding and amyloid formation ... a-synuclein of Parkinson's disease, the human ...