ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2024
The structural line between prion and "prion-like": Insights from prion protein and tau.
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- One organelle to rule them all: enhancement of lysosomal activity as a therapeutic modality for protein misfolding neurodegenerative diseases.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Structure-specific Mini-Prion Model for Alzheimer's Disease Tau Fibrils.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Cytoskeletal Proteins and Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis: Focusing on the Interplay with Tau Pathology.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Inhibition of tau neuronal internalization using anti-tau single domain antibodies.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Optical Taxonomic Signal and the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2025Article
- Role of Tau Protein in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Development of Its Targeted Drugs: A Literature Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
The concept of 'prion-like' behavior has emerged in the study of diseases involving protein misfolding where fibrillar structures, called amyloids, self-propagate and induce disease in a fashion similar to prions. From a biological standpoint, in order to be considered 'prion-like,' a protein must traverse cells and tissues and further propagate via a templated conformational change. Since 2017, cryo-electron microscopy structures from patient-derived 'prion-like' amyloids, in particular tau, have been presented and revealed structural similarities shared across amyloids. Since 2021, cryo-EM structures from prions of known infectivity have been added to the ex vivo amyloid structure family. In this review, we discuss current proposals for the 'prion-like' mechanisms of spread for tau and prion protein as well as discuss different influencers on structures of aggregates from tauopathies and prion diseases. Lastly, we discuss some of the current hypotheses for what may distinguish structures that are 'prion-like' from transmissible prion structures.
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