Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095.
Department of Neurology, Molecular Biology Institute (MBI), and Brain Research Institute (BRI), David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095.
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2017 Sep 1;9(9):a031336. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a031336.
In this review, we detail our current knowledge of PrP structure on the basis of structural and computational studies. We discuss the progress toward an atomic resolution description of PrP and results from the broader field of amyloid studies that may further inform our knowledge of this structure. Moreover, we summarize work that investigates the role of PrP structure in its toxicity, transmissibility, and species specificity. We look forward to an atomic model of PrP, which is expected to bring diagnostics and/or therapeutics to the field of prion disease.
在这篇综述中,我们基于结构和计算研究详细介绍了我们目前对 PrP 结构的了解。我们讨论了朝着原子分辨率描述 PrP 取得的进展,以及来自淀粉样蛋白研究领域的可能进一步阐明我们对这种结构的认识的结果。此外,我们总结了研究 PrP 结构在其毒性、传染性和物种特异性中的作用的工作。我们期待着 PrP 的原子模型的出现,这有望为朊病毒病领域带来诊断和/或治疗方法。