PRNP, prion protein, 5621

N. diseases: 426; N. variants: 47
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The cell-to-cell transmission of the major pathogenic proteins of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease is reminiscent of the prion protein, which is defined as a proteinaceous infectious particle that causes human and animal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. 31358351 2020
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our findings suggest that strategies targeting the interaction between PrP and OC-positive oligomers, which have been shown to be highly concentrated in the vicinity of amyloid plaques, may have therapeutic potential against Alzheimer's disease. 31808343 2020
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Misfolded and abnormal β-sheets forms of wild-type proteins, such as cellular prion protein (PrP<sup>C</sup>) and amyloid beta (Aβ), are believed to be the vectors of neurodegenerative diseases, prion and Alzheimer's disease (AD), respectively. 31547531 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cellular prion protein (PrP<sup>C</sup>) binds the scrapie conformation of PrP (PrP<sup>Sc</sup>) and oligomeric β-amyloid peptide (Aβo) to mediate transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), respectively. 30605671 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Surprisingly, these Aβ oligomers reportedly bind to prion protein (PrP), which acts as a receptor on the cell membrane, possibly resulting in AD. 30916478 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Although it remains elusive how protein aggregation leads to AD, it is becoming clear that cellular prion protein (PrP<sup>C</sup>) plays an important role in AD pathogenesis. 31093882 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The relevance of β-amyloid oligomers and cellular prion protein (PrP<sup>C</sup>) binding has been a focus of interest in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 29530723 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The cellular prion protein (PrP<sup>C</sup>) is a key neuronal receptor for β-amyloid oligomers (AβO), mediating their neurotoxicity, which contributes to the neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 30872401 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We identified 70 additional novel and missense variants in other genes, such as MAPT, GRN, CSF1R, and PRNP, related to neurodegenerative diseases, which may represent overlapping clinical and neuropathological features with AD. 31182772 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent observations have suggested the possibility of an association between AD and cellular prion protein (PrP <sup> 31417361 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Monitoring of early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using the cellular prion protein and poly(pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid) modified electrode. 29734034 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The initial report that cellular prion protein (PrP<sup>C</sup>) mediates toxicity of amyloid-β species linked to Alzheimer's disease was initially treated with scepticism, but growing evidence supports this claim. 29331212 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Prion protein stabilizes amyloid-β (Aβ) oligomers and enhances Aβ neurotoxicity in a <i>Drosophila</i> model of Alzheimer's disease. 29887525 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Fyn is an attractive target for AD therapeutics, not only based on its activation by Aβ via cellular prion protein but also due to its known interaction with tau, uniquely linking the two key pathologies in AD. 28709498 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These data indicate that human models of Alzheimer's disease generate distinct proteins that converge at the level of cellular prion protein to induce synaptic dysfunction in vivo. 29768194 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These findings support a critical role for cellular prion protein in the deleterious synaptic actions of extracellular soluble tau in tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease. 30355631 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Moreover, some interactors were found only in either non-AD or AD brain, suggesting aberrant PrPC interactions in the pathogenesis of AD. 29791485 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We immunostained the frontal cortex, basal ganglia and cerebellum in 16 patients with rpAD and sCJD using antibodies against markers of microglia and recruited monocytes (ionized calcium-binding adaptor molecule 1, human leukocyte antigen DPQR, Cluster of Differentiation 68), an antibody unique to brain-resident microglia (transmembrane protein 119 (TMEM119)), in addition to antibodies against a marker of astrocytes (glial fibrillary acidic protein), amyloid-β (Aβ) and pathological prion protein. rpAD patients showed a distinct microglial phenotype with a high abundance of TMEM119-positive microglia in all investigated regions. 30318820 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The presence of pathology related to the deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) has been recently reported in iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (iCJD) acquired from inoculation of growth hormone (GH) extracted from human cadaveric pituitary gland or use of cadaveric dura mater (DM) grafts.To investigate this phenomenon further, a cohort of 27 iCJD cases - 21 with adequate number of histopathological sections - originating from Australia, France, Italy, and the Unites States, were examined by immunohistochemistry, amyloid staining, and Western blot analysis of the scrapie prion protein (PrP<sup>Sc</sup>), and compared with age-group matched cases of sporadic CJD (sCJD), Alzheimer disease (AD) or free of neurodegenerative diseases (non-ND).Cases of iCJD and sCJD shared similar profiles of proteinase K-resistant PrP<sup>Sc</sup> with the exception of iCJD harboring the "MMi" phenotype. 29310723 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Previous studies have indicated that PrP interacts with Alzheimer's disease amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), but it remains elusive how this interaction impacts on the misfolding of PrP. 29645399 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE An in situ labeling using biotinylated Tat 48-57 peptide was employed in the brain tissue with amyloid deposits made up of Aβ (patients with AD and transgenic AD mice), of prion protein (patients with Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease), and other amyloidosis, processed by different fixations and pretreatments of histological sections. 29349578 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Sequence alterations antagonizing or enhancing amyloidogenicity of human amyloid-β (associated with Alzheimer's disease) and mouse prion protein (associated with prion diseases), respectively, antagonized or enhanced nucleation of a yeast prion by these proteins. 29330303 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Identification of prion protein-derived peptides of potential use in Alzheimer's disease therapy. 29604335 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE This transmission of prion infectivity from a patient expressing truncated human PrP may have implications for the spread and possible transmission of other aggregated truncated proteins in prion-like diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and tauopathies. 29458424 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our data demonstrated a significant 1.2-fold decrease in di-glycosylated PrP isoforms specifically in rpAD patients. 28671123 2017