An antipsychotic drug exerts anti-prion effects by altering the localization of the cellular prion protein.

Prion diseases are neurodegenerative conditions characterized by the conformational conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrPC), an endogenous membrane glycoprotein of uncertain function, into PrPSc, a pathological isoform that replicates by imposing its abnormal folding onto PrPC molecules. A g...

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Main Authors: Claudia Stincardini, Tania Massignan, Silvia Biggi, Saioa R Elezgarai, Valeria Sangiovanni, Ilaria Vanni, Michael Pancher, Valentina Adami, Jorge Moreno, Matteo Stravalaci, Giulia Maietta, Marco Gobbi, Alessandro Negro, Jesús R Requena, Joaquín Castilla, Romolo Nonno, Emiliano Biasini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182589&type=printable