Search Results - "Williamson, Anthony"
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Structural basis for recognition of the central conserved region of RSV G by neutralizing human antibodies
Published in PLoS pathogens (06-03-2018)“…Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe lower respiratory tract infections in infants and the elderly, and yet there remains no effective…”
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A Broadly Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibody Exhibits In Vivo Efficacy Against Both Human Metapneumovirus and Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (15-01-2015)“…Background. Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a leading cause of acute respiratory tract infection, with significant morbidity and mortality. No licensed…”
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Antibiotic-induced acceleration of type 1 diabetes alters maturation of innate intestinal immunity
Published in eLife (25-07-2018)“…The early-life intestinal microbiota plays a key role in shaping host immune system development. We found that a single early-life antibiotic course (1PAT)…”
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Selective Incorporation of Polyanionic Molecules into Hamster Prions
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (14-12-2007)“…The central pathogenic event of prion disease is the conformational conversion of a host protein, PrPC, into a pathogenic isoform, PrPSc. We previously showed…”
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Immunological memory to hyperphosphorylated tau in asymptomatic individuals
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-05-2017)“…Several reports have described the presence of antibodies against Alzheimer’s disease-associated hyperphosphorylated forms of tau in serum of healthy…”
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Antibodies produced by clonally expanded plasma cells in multiple sclerosis cerebrospinal fluid
Published in Annals of neurology (01-06-2009)“…Objective Intrathecal IgG synthesis, persistence of bands of oligoclonal IgG, and memory B‐cell clonal expansion are well‐characterized features of the humoral…”
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High Titers of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Infectivity Associated with Extremely Low Levels of PrPSc in Vivo
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (07-12-2007)“…Diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) disease in humans and ruminants relies on the detection in post-mortem brain tissue of the…”
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Pathologic prion protein infects cells by lipid-raft dependent macropinocytosis
Published in PloS one (02-10-2008)“…Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, including variant-Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathies in cattle, are…”
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Protease-resistant Prion Protein Amplification Reconstituted with Partially Purified Substrates and Synthetic Polyanions
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (22-07-2005)“…Little is currently known about the biochemical mechanism by which induced prion protein (PrP) conformational change occurs during mammalian prion propagation…”
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Cross-Linking Cellular Prion Protein Triggers Neuronal Apoptosis In vivo
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-03-2004)“…Neuronal death is a prominent, but poorly understood, pathological hallmark of prion disease. Notably, in the absence of the cellular prion protein PrPC), the…”
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Toward Molecular Dissection of PrPC-PrPSc Interactions
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (09-03-2007)“…Direct interaction between endogenous cellular prion protein (PrPC) and misfolded, disease-associated (PrPSc) conformers is a key event in prion propagation,…”
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Antibodies inhibit prion propagation and clear cell cultures of prion infectivity
Published in Nature (London) (16-08-2001)“…Prions are the transmissible pathogenic agents responsible for diseases such as scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. In the favoured model of prion…”
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Trafficking of Prion Proteins through a Caveolae-Mediated Endosomal Pathway
Published in The Journal of cell biology (18-08-2003)“…To understand the posttranslational conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) to its pathologic conformation, it is important to define the intracellular…”
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Directed Evolution of an Anti-prion Protein scFv Fragment to an Affinity of 1 pM and its Structural Interpretation
Published in Journal of molecular biology (13-10-2006)“…Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal neurodegenerative prion disease affecting cattle that is transmissible to humans, manifesting as a variant of…”
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Measuring prions causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy or chronic wasting disease by immunoassays and transgenic mice
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-11-2002)“…There is increasing concern over the extent to which bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) prions have been transmitted to humans, as a result of the rising…”
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A Recombinant Human Monoclonal Antibody to Human Metapneumovirus Fusion Protein That Neutralizes Virus In Vitro and Is Effective Therapeutically In Vivo
Published in Journal of Virology (01-08-2007)“…Article Usage Stats Services JVI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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Calpain-dependent Endoproteolytic Cleavage of PrPSc Modulates Scrapie Prion Propagation
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (21-05-2004)“…Previous studies using post-mortem human brain extracts demonstrated that PrP in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) brains is cleaved by a cellular protease to…”
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Probing the Conformation of the Prion Protein within a Single Amyloid Fibril Using a Novel Immunoconformational Assay
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (02-06-2006)“…The coexistence of multiple strains or subtypes of the disease-related isoform of prion protein (PrP) in natural isolates, together with the observed…”
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Lack of Prion Infectivity in Fixed Heart Tissue from Patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or Amyloid Heart Disease
Published in Journal of Virology (01-09-2013)“…Article Usage Stats Services JVI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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Motif-Grafted Antibodies Containing the Replicative Interface of Cellular PrP Are Specific for PrPSc
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-07-2004)“…Prion diseases are closely associated with the conversion of the cellular prion protein ( PrPC) to an abnormal conformer ( PrPSc) [Prusiner, S. B. (1998) Proc…”
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