Table of Contents

Volume 1, Issue 1

  January/February/March 2007

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Letter from the Editor

• From Molecular Tumors to Protein Genes and Back

  Yury O. Chernoff
  Pages 1 - 2

Mini-Reviews

• Computational Simulations of the Early Steps of Protein Aggregation

  Guanghong Wei, Normand Mousseau and Philippe Derreumaux
  Pages 3 - 8

• Hacking the Code of Amyloid Formation: The Amyloid Stretch Hypothesis

  M. Teresa Pastor, Alexandra Esteras-Chopo and Luis Serrano
  Pages 9 - 14

• Protein Misfolding and the Serpinopathies

  Didier Belorgey, Peter Hägglöf, Susanna Karlsson-Li and David A. Lomas
  Pages 15 - 20

• Tau Aggregation in Alzheimer's Disease: What Role for Phosphorylation?

  Guy Lippens, Alain Sillen, Isabelle Landrieu, Laziza Amniai, Nathalie Sibille, Pascale Barbier, Arnaud Leroy, Xavier Hanoulle and Jean-Michel Wieruszeski
  Pages 21 - 25

• Aggregation of Expanded Huntingtin in the Brains of Patients with Huntington Disease

  Guylaine Hoffner, Sylvie Soues and Philippe Djian
  Pages 26 - 31

• Self Assembly of Short Aromatic Peptides into Amyloid Fibrils and Related Nanostructures

  Ehud Gazit
  Pages 32 - 35

• Prion Propagation, The Role of Protein Dynamics

  John A. Pezza and Tricia R. Serio
  Pages 36 - 43

• Infectious Fold and Amyloid Propagation in Podospora anserina

  Marie-Lise Maddelein
  Pages 44 - 47

• Antiprion Drugs as Chemical Tools to Uncover Mechanisms of Prion Propagation

  Deborah Tribouillard, Fabienne Gug, Hervé Galons, Stéphane Bach, Sven J. Saupe and Marc Blondel
  Pages 48 - 52

• Apoptosis Versus Cell Differentiation: Role of Heat Shock Proteins HSP90, HSP70 and HSP27

  David Lanneau, Aurelie de Thonel, Sebastien Maurel, Celine Didelot and Carmen Garrido
  Pages 53 - 60

Research Papers

• H-type Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Complex Molecular Features and Similarities with Human Prion Diseases

  Anne-Gaëlle Biacabe, Jorg G. Jacobs, Anna Bencsik, Jan P.M. Langeveld and Thierry G.M. Baron
  Pages 61 - 68

• A Systematic Evaluation of the Function of the Protein-Remodeling Factor Hsp104 in [PSI⁺] Prion Propagation in S. cerevisiae by Comprehensive Chromosomal Mutations

  Open Access Article

  Aiko Takahashi, Hideyuki Hara, Hiroshi Kurahashi and Yoshikazu Nakamura
  Pages 69 - 77