2008年4月
Aggregation and amyloid fibril formation of the prion protein is accelerated in the presence of glycogen
REJUVENATION RESEARCH
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- 巻
- 11
- 号
- 2
- 開始ページ
- 365
- 終了ページ
- 369
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- DOI
- 10.1089/rej.2008.0698
- 出版者・発行元
- MARY ANN LIEBERT INC
Prion diseases like Creutzfeldt-jakob disease in humans or scrapie in sheep and goats are infectious neurodegenerative diseases. Their infectious agent, called prion, is composed mainly of aggregated and misfolded prion protein and non-proteinaceous components. An example of such a common non-proteinaceous secondary component of natural prions is the polysaccharide scaffold. We studied the influence of such a polysaccharide on the conformational transition of PrP applying an in vitro conversion system. Here we report that glycogen supports and accelerates PrP amorphous aggregation similar to seeded aggregation and leads to co-aggregates. Furthermore, PrP fibril formation was highly accelerated in the presence of glycogen.
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- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1089/rej.2008.0698
- ISSN : 1549-1684
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000255773200015