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Pearls: Prions

Published February 8, 2018

PLOS Pathogens presents an Open Access compendium of the "lessons-that-last." This section, founded by Dr. Hiten Madhani and now led by Dr. Joseph Heitman and a team of twelve Pearls Editors, is a living collection of short educational and highly useful articles that address topics of relevance and importance within the wide-ranging field of pathogens research, with insights for trainees and scientists at all career stages.

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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006759

PLOS Pathogens Animal TSEs and public health: What remains of past lessons?
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PLOS Pathogens Chaperone functional specificity promotes yeast prion diversity
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PLOS Pathogens Chronic wasting disease: Emerging prions and their potential risk
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PLOS Pathogens Elucidating the function of the prion protein
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PLOS Pathogens Prion strains in mammals: different conformations leading to disease.
July 6, 2017 Rodrigo Morales
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PLOS Pathogens Elucidating the structure of an infectious protein
April 13, 2017 Markus Zweckstetter, Jesús R. Requena, Holger Wille
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PLOS Pathogens Silent Prions and Covert Prion Transmission
December 10, 2015 Candace K. Mathiason
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PLOS Pathogens Environmental Regulation of Prions in Yeast
November 15, 2012 Liming Li, Anthony Kowal
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PLOS Pathogens The Elusive Role of the Prion Protein and the Mechanism of Toxicity in Prion Disease
May 7, 2015 Roberto Chiesa
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PLOS Pathogens Prions—Not Your Immunologist’s Pathogen
February 19, 2015 Mark Zabel, Anne Avery
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PLOS Pathogens The Role of Iron in Prion Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
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PLOS Pathogens Yeast Prions: Proteins Templating Conformation and an Anti-prion System
February 5, 2015 Reed Wickner, Herman Edskes, David Bateman, Anton Gorkovskiy, Yaron Dayani, Evgeny Bezsonov, Maryam Mukhamedova
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PLOS Pathogens Peculiarities of Prion Diseases
November 20, 2014 Walker Jackson, Clemens Krost
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PLOS Pathogens The [Het-s] Prion, an Amyloid Fold as a Cell Death Activation Trigger
May 24, 2012 Sven Saupe, Asen Daskalov
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PLOS Pathogens Five Questions on Prion Diseases
May 3, 2012 Adriano Aguzzi, Caihong Zhu
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003759

PLOS Pathogens The Evolution of Transmissible Prions: The Role of Deformed Templating
December 5, 2013 Natallia Makarava, Ilia Baskakov
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PLOS Pathogens Cross-Seeding of Misfolded Proteins: Implications for Etiology and Pathogenesis of Protein Misfolding Diseases
September 19, 2013 Rodrigo Morales, Ines Moreno-Gonzalez, Claudio Soto
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003113

PLOS Pathogens Behavior of Prions in the Environment: Implications for Prion Biology
February 7, 2013 Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Jason Bartz
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PLOS Pathogens The Importance of Prions
January 31, 2013 Glenn Telling
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PLOS Pathogens The Role of Cofactors in Prion Propagation and Infectivity
April 12, 2012 Jiyan Ma
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002582

PLOS Pathogens Mutation and Selection of Prions
March 29, 2012 Charles Weissmann
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003181

PLOS Pathogens Generators of Phenotypic Diversity in the Evolution of Pathogenic Microorganisms
March 21, 2013 Silvia Calo Varela, R. Blake Billmyre, Joseph Heitman
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003992

PLOS Pathogens Pernicious Pathogens or Expedient Elements of Inheritance: The Significance of Yeast Prions
April 10, 2014 James Byers, Dan Jarosz

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