1. Prion protein's protection against pain / Vinicius M. Gadotti and Gerald W. Zamponi -- 2. Prion protein-encoding genes Sead Chadi, Rachel Young, Sandrine Le Guillou, Gaelle Tilly, Frederique Bitton, Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette, Ludivine Soubigou-Taconnat, Sandrine Balzergue, Marthe Vilotte, Coralie Peyre, Bruno Passet, Vincent Beringue, Jean-Pierre Renou, Fabienne Le Provost, Hubert Laude, and Jean-Luc Vilotte -- 3. Protein misfolding cyclic amplification / Nuria Gonzalez-Montalban, Natallia Makarava, Valeriy G. Ostapchenko, Regina Savtchenk, Irina Alexeeva, Robert G. Rohwer, and Ilia V. Baskakov -- 4. Amplification of the scrapie isoform of prion protein / Jae-Il Kim, Krystyna Surewicz, Pierluigi Gambetti, and Witold K. Surewicz -- 5. The octarepeat region of the prion protein / Alice Y. Yam, Carol Man Gao, Xuemei Wang, Ping Wu, and David Peretz -- 6. Prion protein self-peptides / Alan Rigter, Jan Priem, Drophatie Timmers-Parohi, Jan PM Langeveld, Fred G van Zijderveld, and Alex Bossers -- 7. PrPSc spreading patterns and prion types / Wiebke M Wemheuer, Sylvie L Benestad, Arne Wrede, Wilhelm E Wemheuer, Bertram Brenig, Bjorn Bratberg, and Walter J Schulz-Schaeffer -- 8. Experimental H-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy / Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshifumi Iwamaru, Morikazu Imamura, Kentaro Masujin, Yuichi Matsuura, Yoshihisa Shimizu, Kazuo Kasai, Shirou Mohri, Takashi Yokoyama, and Stefanie Czub -- 9. A novel form of human disease / Ana B. Rodriguez-Martinez, Joseba M. Garrido, Juan J. Zarranz, Jose M. Arteagoitia, Marian M. de Pancorbo, Begona Atares, Miren J. Bilbao, Isidro Ferrer, and Ramon A. Juste -- 10. Prions as seeds and recombinant prion proteins as substrates / Giannantonio Panza, Lars Luers, Jan Stohr, Luitgard Nagel-Steger, Jurgen Weib, Detlev Riesner, Dieter Willbold, and Eva Birkmann -- 11. Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis of prion-infected neuronal cells / Wibke Wagner, Paul Ajuh, Johannes Lower, and Silja Wessler.