Prions and Diseases

1. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: From its Beginnings to Daniel Carlton Gajdusek
Paul Brown

2. The Rich Chemistry of the Copper and Zinc Sites in Cellular Prion Protein
Glenn L. Millhauser

3. Role of Cellular Prion Protein in the Amyloid-β Oligomer Pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease
Adam C. Kaufman, Stephen M. Strittmatter

4. Cellular Prion Protein and Cancers
Wei Xin, Man-sun Sy, Chaoyang Li

5. Insoluble Cellular Prion Protein
Wen-Quan Zou

6. Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification
Fabio Moda, Sandra Pritzkow, Claudio Soto

7. Cofactor Involvement in Prion Propagation
Surachai Supattapone, Michael B. Miller

8. Prion Protein Conversion and Lipids
Jiyan Ma

9. New Perspectives on Prion Conversion: Introducing a Mechanism of Deformed Templating
Ilia V. Baskakov

10. Infectious and Pathogenic Forms of PrP
Emiliano Biasini, David A. Harris

11. Cellular Mechanisms of Propagation and Clearance
Hermann M. Schatzl

12. Molecular Mechanisms Encoding Quantitative and Qualitative Traits of Prion Strains
Jiri G. Safar

13. Modeling the Cell Biology of Prions
Richard Rubenstein, Robert B. Petersen

14. Prion Strain Interference
Charles R. Schutt, Ronald A. Shikiya, Jason C. Bartz

15. Introduction to Yeast and Fungal Prions
Reed B. Wickner

16. Yeast Prions Are Pathogenic, In-Register Parallel Amyloids
Reed B. Wickner, Herman K. Edskes, David A. Bateman, Amy C. Kelly, Anton Gorkovskiy

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Human Physiology, Neurology, Protein Science, Animal Physiology, Biochemistry, general