A Protein Misfolding Shaking Amplification-based method for the spontaneous generation of hundreds of bona fide prions.

Prion diseases are a group of rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disorders caused by the misfolding of the endogenous prion protein (PrPC) into a pathogenic form (PrPSc). This process, despite being the central event underlying these disorders, remains largely unknown at a molecular level, precluding the prediction of new potential outbreaks or interspecies transmission incidents. In this work, we present a method to generate bona fide recombinant prions de novo, allowing a comprehensive analysis of protein misfolding across a wide range of prion proteins from mammalian species. We study more than 380 different prion proteins from mammals and classify them according to their spontaneous misfolding propensity and their conformational variability. This study aims to address fundamental questions in the prion research field such as defining infectivity determinants, interspecies transmission barriers or the structural influence of specific amino acids and provide invaluable information for future diagnosis and therapy applications. © 2024. The Author(s).

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Hasier Eraña, Cristina Sampedro-Torres-Quevedo, Jorge M Charco, Carlos M Díaz-Domínguez, Francesca Peccati, Maitena San-Juan-Ansoleaga, Enric Vidal, Nuno Gonçalves-Anjo, Miguel A Pérez-Castro, Ezequiel González-Miranda, Patricia Piñeiro, Leire Fernández-Veiga, Josu Galarza-Ahumada, Eva Fernández-Muñoz, Guiomar Perez de Nanclares, Glenn Telling, Mariví Geijo, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, Joaquín Castilla. A Protein Misfolding Shaking Amplification-based method for the spontaneous generation of hundreds of bona fide prions. Nature communications. 2024 Mar 08;15(1):2112

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