Article Dans Une Revue (Data Paper) Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences Année : 2018

Cellular mechanisms responsible for cell-to-cell spreading of prions

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Prions are infectious agents that cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases. Current evidence indicates that they are essentially composed of an abnormally folded protein (PrPSc). These abnormal aggregated PrPSc species multiply in infected cells by recruiting and converting the host PrPC protein into new PrPSc. How prions move from cell to cell and progressively spread across the infected tissue is of crucial importance and may provide experimental opportunity to delay the progression of the disease. In infected cells, different mechanisms have been identified, including release of infectious extracellular vesicles and intercellular transfer of PrPSc-containing organelles through tunneling nanotubes. These findings should allow manipu- lation of the intracellular trafficking events targeting PrPSc in these particular subcellular compartments to experimentally address the relative contribution of these mechanisms to in vivo prion pathogenesis. In addition, such information may prompt further experimental strategies to decipher the causal roles of protein misfolding and aggregation in other human neurodegenerative diseases.

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hal-02328248 , version 1 (23-10-2019)

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Didier Vilette, Josquin Courte, Jean Michel Peyrin, Laurent Coudert, Laurent Schaeffer, et al.. Cellular mechanisms responsible for cell-to-cell spreading of prions. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2018, 75 (14), pp.2557-2574. ⟨10.1007/s00018-018-2823-y⟩. ⟨hal-02328248⟩
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