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NATURE
Volume 539, Issue 7628, Pages 217-226Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature20415
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- Medical Research Council [MC_U123192748] Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [MC_U123192748] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U123192748] Funding Source: researchfish
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Prions are notorious protein-only infectious agents that cause invariably fatal brain diseases following silent incubation periods that can span a lifetime. These diseases can arise spontaneously, through infection or be inherited. Remarkably, prions are composed of self-propagating assemblies of a misfolded cellular protein that encode information, generate neurotoxicity and evolve and adapt in vivo. Although parallels have been drawn with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions involving the deposition of assemblies of misfolded proteins in the brain, insights are now being provided into the usefulness and limitations of prion analogies and their aetiological and therapeutic relevance.
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