中国神经再生研究(英文版) ›› 2024, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (5): 963-965.doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.385302

• 观点:脑损伤修复保护与再生 • 上一篇    下一篇

解开大脑PrPC蛋白形式及其在生理和疾病中的作用

  

  • 出版日期:2024-05-15 发布日期:2023-10-31

Disentangling brain PrPC proteoforms and their roles in physiology and disease

Ilaria Vanni*, Nonno Romolo   

  1. Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
  • Online:2024-05-15 Published:2023-10-31
  • Contact: Ilaria Vanni, PhD, ilaria.vanni@iss.it.
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the Ministero della Salute (grant No. RF-2016-02364498, to NR).

摘要: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2617-4263 (Ilaria Vanni)

Abstract: The cellular prion protein (PrPC), a cell surface glycoprotein of 209 amino acids, has been considerably studied over the decades mainly due to its critical involvement in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases. Indeed, it is the misfolding and aggregation of PrPC into pathological assemblies - named PrPSc – that constitute prions, the agents causing these unusual neurodegenerative diseases affecting humans and animals (Prusiner, 1982). Furthermore, increasing evidence support its relevance also in other neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs), such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (Corbett et al., 2020).