Prions amplify through degradation of the VPS10P sorting receptor sortilin.

Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders caused by prions, which consist mainly of the abnormally folded isoform of prion protein, PrPSc. A pivotal pathogenic event in prion disease is progressive accumulation of prions, or PrPSc, in brains through constitutive conformational...

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Main Authors: Keiji Uchiyama, Mitsuru Tomita, Masashi Yano, Junji Chida, Hideyuki Hara, Nandita Rani Das, Anders Nykjaer, Suehiro Sakaguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-06-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5509376?pdf=render