Prion protein diversity and disease in the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / Suzette A. Priola -- Mass spectrometric analysis of prion proteins / Michael A. Baldwin -- Three-dimensional structures of prion proteins / Kurt Wüthrich and Roland Riek -- Folding dynamics and energetics of recombinant prion proteins / Rudi Glockshuber -- Simulations and computational analyses of prion protein conformations / Darwin O.V. Alonso and Valerie Daggett -- Interactions and conversions of prion protein isoforms / Byron Caughey [and others] -- Studies of peptide fragments of prion proteins / Fabrizio Tagliavini [and others] -- Biosynthesis and cellular processing of the prion protein / David A. Harris -- Interaction of prion proteins with cell surface receptors, molecular chaperones, and other molecules / Sabine Gauczynski [and others] -- Transgenic studies of the influence of the PrP structure on TSE diseases / Emmanuel A. Asante and John Collinge -- Yeast prions act as genes composed of self-propagating protein amyloids / Reed B. Wickner [and others] -- (PSI), SUP35, and Chaperones / Tricia R. Serio and Susan L. Lindquist.