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Behar KL, Boucher R, Fritch W, Manuelidis L. Changes in N-acetylaspartate and myo-inositol detected in the cerebral cortex of hamsters with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Magn Reson Imaging 1998; 16:963-8. [PMID: 9814779 DOI: 10.1016/s0730-725x(98)00109-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The levels of several low-molecular-weight metabolites were measured in 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of extracts of Syrian hamster brain infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Metabolite levels were determined in cerebral cortex in CJD-infected and age-matched controls at defined times (40, 65, 85, 105, and 135 days) during the 130- to 135-day incubation period to terminal disease. At 135 days, CJD-infected hamsters showed a significant decrease in N-acetylaspartate of 32% (p < 0.05) and an increase in myo-inositol of 67% (p < 0.001) from age-matched controls. At earlier times (40 to 110 days) levels of N-acetylaspartate and myo-inositol were not significantly different from controls. No significant changes were detected in the cortical levels of glutamate, aspartate, or GABA between 40 and 135 days. The late changes in N-acetylaspartate and myo-inositol in CJD-infected hamsters are similar to those observed in magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies of human CJD. Because they also correspond to the changes found in other dementias, including Alzheimer's disease and HIV dementia, these changes indicate converging pathogenetic pathways involved in many neurodegenerative diseases.
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- K L Behar
- Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Canivenc-Gansel E, Imhof I, Reggiori F, Burda P, Conzelmann A, Benachour A. GPI anchor biosynthesis in yeast: phosphoethanolamine is attached to the alpha1,4-linked mannose of the complete precursor glycophospholipid. Glycobiology 1998; 8:761-70. [PMID: 9639537 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/8.8.761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Cells synthesize the GPI anchor carbohydrate core by successively adding N-acetylglucosamine, three mannoses, and phosphoethanolamine (EtN-P) onto phosphatidylinositol, thus forming the complete GPI precursor lipid which is then added to proteins. Previously, we isolated a GPI deficient yeast mutant accumulating a GPI intermediate containing only two mannoses, suggesting that it has difficulty in adding the third, alpha1,2-linked Man of GPI anchors. The mutant thus displays a similar phenotype as the mammalian mutant cell line S1A-b having a mutation in the PIG-B gene. The yeast mutant, herein named gpi10-1 , contains a mutation in YGL142C, a yeast homolog of the human PIG-B. YGL142C predicts a highly hydrophobic integral membrane protein which by sequence is related to ALG9, a yeast gene required for adding Man in alpha1,2 linkage to N-glycans. Whereas gpi10-1 cells grow at a normal rate and make normal amounts of GPI proteins, the microsomes of gpi10-1 are completely unable to add the third Man in an in vitro assay. Further analysis of the GPI intermediate accumulating in gpi10 shows it to have the structure Manalpha1-6(EtN-P-)Manalpha1-4GlcNalpha1-6(acyl) Inositol-P-lipid. The presence of EtN-P on the alpha1,4-linked Man of GPI anchors is typical of mammalian and a few other organisms but had not been observed in yeast GPI proteins. This additional EtN-P is not only found in the abnormal GPI intermediate of gpi10-1 but is equally present on the complete GPI precursor lipid of wild type cells. Thus, GPI biosynthesis in yeast and mammals proceeds similarly and differs from the pathway described for Trypanosoma brucei in several aspects.
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- E Canivenc-Gansel
- Institute of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Pérolles, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland and Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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DeArmond SJ, Sánchez H, Yehiely F, Qiu Y, Ninchak-Casey A, Daggett V, Camerino AP, Cayetano J, Rogers M, Groth D, Torchia M, Tremblay P, Scott MR, Cohen FE, Prusiner SB. Selective neuronal targeting in prion disease. Neuron 1997; 19:1337-48. [PMID: 9427256 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80424-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The pattern of scrapie prion protein (PrP(Sc)) accumulation in the brain is different for each prion strain. We tested whether the PrP(Sc) deposition pattern is influenced by the Asn-linked oligosaccharides of PrP(C) in transgenic mice. Deletion of the first oligosaccharide altered PrP(C) trafficking and prevented infection with two prion strains. Deletion of the second did not alter PrP(C) trafficking, permitted infection with one prion strain, and had a profound effect on the PrP(Sc) deposition pattern. Our data raise the possibility that glycosylation can modify the conformation of PrP(C). Glycosylation could affect the affinity of PrP(C) for a particular conformer of PrP(Sc), thereby determining the rate of nascent PrP(Sc) formation and the specific patterns of PrP(Sc) deposition.
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- S J DeArmond
- Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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Lehmann S, Harris DA. Blockade of glycosylation promotes acquisition of scrapie-like properties by the prion protein in cultured cells. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:21479-87. [PMID: 9261166 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.34.21479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The conformational conversion of the prion protein, a sialoglycoprotein containing two N-linked oligosaccharide chains, from its normal form (PrPC) to a pathogenic form (PrPSc) is the central causative event in prion diseases. Although PrPSc can be generated in the absence of glycosylation, there is evidence that oligosaccharide chains may modulate the efficiency of the conversion process, and may also serve as molecular markers of diverse prion strains. In addition, mutational inactivation of one of the N-glycosylation sites has recently been associated with a familial spongiform encephalopathy. To investigate the role of N-glycans in determining the properties of PrP, we have expressed in transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells mouse PrP molecules in which N-glycosylation has been blocked either by treatment with the drug tunicamycin, or by substitution of alanine for threonine at one or both of the N-X-T consensus sites. We report that PrP molecules mutated at Thr182 alone or at both Thr182 and Thr198 [corrected] fail to reach the cell surface after synthesis, but that those mutated at Thr198 [corrected] or synthesized in the presence of tunicamycin can be detected on the plasma membrane. We also find that all three mutant PrPs, and to a limited extent wild-type PrP synthesized in the presence of inhibitor, acquire biochemical attributes reminiscent of PrPSc. We suggest that the PrP molecule has an intrinsic tendency to acquire some PrPSc-like properties, and that N-glycan chains protect against this change. However, pathogenic mutations, or presumably contact with exogenous prions, are necessary to fully convert the protein to a PrPSc state.
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- S Lehmann
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Negro A, De Filippis V, Skaper SD, James P, Sorgato MC. The complete mature bovine prion protein highly expressed in Escherichia coli: biochemical and structural studies. FEBS Lett 1997; 412:359-64. [PMID: 9256252 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00798-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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According to the 'protein only' hypothesis, modification of the 3-dimensional fold of the constituent cellular protein, PrP(C), into the disease-associated isoform, PrP(Sc), is the cause of neurodegenerative diseases in animals and humans. Here we describe the high-level synthesis in Escherichia coli, and purification in the monomeric form, of a histidine-tagged full-length mature PrP (25-249) of bovine brain, termed His-PrP. Based on biochemical and spectroscopic data, His-PrP displays characteristics expected for the PrP(C) isoform. The reported expression system should allow the production of quantities of bovine PrP(C) sufficient to permit 3-dimensional structure determinations.
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- A Negro
- Dipartimento di Chimica Biologica, Centro CNR dello Studio delle Biomembrane, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy
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Kobayashi T, Nishizaki R, Ikezawa H. The presence of GPI-linked protein(s) in an archaeobacterium, Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, closely related to eukaryotes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1334:1-4. [PMID: 9042356 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(96)00099-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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GPI-anchored proteins are distributed ubiquitously in eukaryotes, but not in procaryotes. By metabolic-labeling of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius cells, 14C-radiolabeled precursors of GPI and caldarchaetidylinositol were incorporated into 120, 143 and 185 kDa proteins. The 185 kDa protein was specifically solubilized by bacterial phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C. Therefore, Sulfolobus proved to contain at least one GPI-anchored proteins.
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- T Kobayashi
- Department of Microbial Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Aichi, Japan
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Schauer R, Kamerling JP. Chemistry, biochemistry and biology of sialic acids ☆. NEW COMPREHENSIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1997; 29. [PMCID: PMC7147860 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60624-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Roland Schauer
- Biochemisches Institut, Christian-Albrechls-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
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- Bijuoet Center, Department of Bio-Organic Chemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Varela-Nieto I, León Y, Caro HN. Cell signalling by inositol phosphoglycans from different species. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1996; 115:223-41. [PMID: 8939003 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(96)00087-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The discovery of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) molecules and their products has given new insight into the field of signal transduction. In the last decade a novel mechanism of protein attachment to membranes has emerged, which involves a covalent linkage of the protein to the glycan moiety of a GPI. The discovery that GPI-anchored proteins are ubiquitous throughout the eukaryotes was followed by the observation that uncomplexed GPI molecules are implicated in signal transduction for a diversity of hormones and growth factors. The hydrolysis of free-GPI generates a novel second messenger: the inositol phosphoglycan (IPG). The aim of this article is to review the role of IPG and IPG-like molecules in signal transduction and to discuss future research directions.
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- I Varela-Nieto
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
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Zhukov AV, Kusnetsova EI, Vereshchagin AG. Mild non-enzymatic hydrolysis of an ester bond between the orthophosphoric acid and ethanolamine residues in phosphatidylethanolamines. Chem Phys Lipids 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0009-3084(96)02538-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Meri S, Lehto T, Sutton CW, Tyynelä J, Baumann M. Structural composition and functional characterization of soluble CD59: heterogeneity of the oligosaccharide and glycophosphoinositol (GPI) anchor revealed by laser-desorption mass spectrometric analysis. Biochem J 1996; 316 ( Pt 3):923-35. [PMID: 8670172 PMCID: PMC1217438 DOI: 10.1042/bj3160923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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CD59 (protectin) is a glycophosphoinositol (GPI)-anchored inhibitor of the membrane attack complex of complement found on blood cells, endothelia and epithelial cells. In addition to the lipid-tailed CD59, soluble lipid-free forms of CD59 are present in human body fluids. We have investigated the detailed structural composition of the naturally occurring soluble urinary CD59 (CD59u) using peptide mapping, anion-exchange chromatography, sequential exoglycosidase digestion and matrix-assisted laser-desorption mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS). CD59u exhibited an average M(r) of 12444 in MALDI-MS. Mass analysis of the isolated C-terminal peptide (T9) indicated that a GPI-anchor (at Asn-77) without an inositol-associated phospholipid was present in soluble CD59u. By using residue-specific exoglycosidases, chemical modification and MALDI-MS structures of seven different GPI-anchor variants were determined. Variant forms of the anchor had deletions and/or extensions of one or more monosaccharide units. Sialic acid linked to an N-acetylhexosamine-galactose arm was found in two GPI-anchor variants. The N-linked carbohydrate side chain of CD59u (at Asn-18) also displayed considerable heterogeneity. The predominant oligosaccharide chains were fucosylated biantennary and triantennary complexes with variable sialylation. Mono Q anion-exchange chromatography resolved urinary CD59 into nine different fractions that bound equally well to the terminal complement SC5b-8 complexes. Despite binding to C5b-8, soluble CD59u inhibited complement lysis at an approx. 200-fold lower efficiency than erythrocyte CD59. These results document the structural heterogeneity of both the GPI anchor and N-linked oligosaccharide of CD59 and demonstrate that the phospholipid tail is needed for the full functional activity of CD59. The site of cleavage between the diradylglycerol phosphate and inositol suggests that a mammalian phospholipase D could be involved in the solubilization of GPI-anchored proteins.
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- S Meri
- Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Singh N, Liang LN, Tykocinski ML, Tartakoff AM. A novel class of cell surface glycolipids of mammalian cells. Free glycosyl phosphatidylinositols. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:12879-84. [PMID: 8663031 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.22.12879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI) lipids function as anchors of membrane proteins, and free GPI units serve as intermediates along the path of GPI-anchor biosynthesis. By using in vivo cell surface biotinylation, we show that free GPIs: 1) can exit the rough endoplasmic reticulum and are present on the surface of a murine EL-4 T-lymphoma and a human carcinoma cell (HeLa), 2) arrive at the cell surface in a time and temperature-dependent fashion, and 3) are built on a base-labile glycerol backbone, unlike GPI anchors of surface proteins of the same cells. The free GPIs described in this study may serve as a source of hormone-sensitive phosphoinositol glycans. The absence of free GPIs from the cell surface may also account for the growth advantage of blood cells in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
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- N Singh
- Institute of Pathology and Cell Biology Program, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Armesto J, Hannappel E, Leopold K, Fischer W, Bublitz R, Langer L, Cumme GA, Horn A. Microheterogeneity of the hydrophobic and hydrophilic part of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor of alkaline phosphatase from calf intestine. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 238:259-69. [PMID: 8665945 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0259q.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Digestion of calf intestine alkaline phosphatase with pronase and subsequent dephosphorylation of the released peptidyl-(Etn-P)2-glycosyl-PtdIns with HF generated 8 glycosyl-Ins species the largest of which (G1 and G2) have the following proposed structures: [sequence: see text] G3 and G5 are lower homologues of G1 and G2, respectively, being one alpha 1-2 linked mannopyranosyl residue shorter. G4 is analogous to G2 lacking the N-acetylgalactosaminyl residue and G6 is the next lower homologue of G4. Most of G4 and G6 occur substituted with a palmitoyl (G4, G6) or a myristoyl residue (G6) probably attached to the inositol moiety. Thus, the basic ManxGlc-Ins species are either substituted with an N-acetylgalactosaminyl residue or a fatty acid ester. The structures were deduced from compositional analysis, molecular-mass determination by matrix-assisted laser desorption MS, sequential hydrolysis with appropriate exoglycosidases and treatment with CrO3. Purification of the glycosylinositol species was achieved by a novel reverse-phase HPLC technique using fluorescent fluoren-9-yl-methoxy-carbonyl (Fmoc) derivatives. These stable derivatives were susceptible to hydrolysis with exoglycosidases which allowed sequential cleavages to be carried out and kinetics to be followed at the picomole level. We observed recently that native alkaline phosphatase separates on octyl-Sepharose into four distinct fractions of increasing hydrophobicity (F1-F4). Here we show that all four fractions contain G1-G6. The acylated species G4 and G6 were restricted to F2 and F4 which had been shown earlier to contain, on average, 2.5 and 3 fatty acid residues/subunit, respectively. In all four fractions the diradylglycerol moiety was predominantly diacylglycerol, alkylacylglycerol being less than 10% which is in contrast to most glycosyl-PtdIns--anchored proteins of mammalian origin.
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- J Armesto
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Haas R, Jackson BC, Reinhold B, Foster JD, Rosenberry TL. Glycoinositol phospholipid anchor and protein C-terminus of bovine erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase: analysis by mass spectrometry and by protein and DNA sequencing. Biochem J 1996; 314 ( Pt 3):817-25. [PMID: 8615775 PMCID: PMC1217130 DOI: 10.1042/bj3140817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Purified bovine erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase (AChE) was radiomethylated on its amine groups and incubated with bacterial phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C to remove the lipid portion of the AChE glycoinositol phospholipid (GPI) anchor, and a C-terminal tryptic fragment that contained the residual GPI glycan was isolated by HPLC. Analysis by electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry revealed a parent ion of m/z 3798. The fragmentation patterns produced by collision-induced dissociation mass spectrometry of the +4 and +5 states of the parent ion indicated a 23-amino acid peptide in amide linkage to ethanolamine-P04-Hex-Hex-Hex(PO4-ethanolamine)(HexNAc)-Hex N(Me)2-inositol phosphate. The glycan structure is completely consistent with that obtained previously for the GPI anchor of human erythrocyte AChE except for the addition of the HexNAc substituent. A nearly complete peptide sequence was deduced from the fragmentation patterns, although four assignments were based only on single fragments of very low abundance. To resolve this uncertainty, a segment of bovine genomic DNA corresponding to the C-terminal AChE sequence was amplified by PCR. DNA sequencing established the 23-amino acid peptide sequence to be FLPKLLSATASEAPCTCSGPAHG, in agreement with the MS data and consistent with results from Edman protein sequencing. Dimerization of AChE polypeptides is mediated by intersubunit disulphide bonding in this C-terminal segment, but the bovine AChE contained two cysteine residues in a ...CTC... motif, in contrast with human AChE which contains only a single cysteine in this segment. Although bovine AChE contained no free thiol groups reactive with iodo[14C]acetamide, partial reduction and alkylation with iodo[14C]acetamide revealed that conversion into monomers occurred with an overall incorporation of only one alkyl group per monomer. An identical level of alkylation was observed when dimeric human AChE was converted into monomers by partial reduction. The question of whether the bovine AChE contains one or two intersubunit disulphide linkages is considered.
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- R Haas
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- J Tateishi
- Department of Neuropathology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Lehmann S, Harris DA. A mutant prion protein displays an aberrant membrane association when expressed in cultured cells. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:24589-97. [PMID: 7592679 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.41.24589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Inherited forms of prion disease have been linked to mutations in the gene encoding PrP, a neuronal and glial protein that is attached to the plasma membrane by a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor. One familial form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is associated with a mutant PrP containing six additional octapeptide repeats. We report here our analysis of cultured Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing a murine homologue of this mutant PrP. We find that, like wild-type PrP, the mutant protein is glycosylated, GPI-anchored, and expressed on the cell surface. Surprisingly, however, cleavage of the GPI anchor using phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C fails to release the mutant PrP from the surface of intact cells, suggesting that it has an additional mode of membrane attachment. The phospholipase-treated protein is hydrophobic, since it partitions into the detergent phase of Triton X-114 lysates; and it is tightly membrane-associated, since it is not extractable in carbonate buffer at pH 11.5. Whether membrane attachment of the mutant PrP involves integration of the polypeptide into the lipid bilayer, self-association, or binding to other membrane proteins remains to be determined. Our results suggest that alterations in the membrane association of PrP may be an important feature of prion diseases.
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- S Lehmann
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Sevlever D, Humphrey DR, Rosenberry TL. Compositional analysis of glucosaminyl(acyl)phosphatidylinositol accumulated in HeLa S3 cells. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1995; 233:384-94. [PMID: 7588771 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.384_1.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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GlcN(acyl)PtdIns, a derivative of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) in which glucosamine and a fatty acid are linked to inositol hydroxyl groups, has been proposed to be an intermediate in the mammalian biosynthetic pathway for glycosylphosphatidylinositol (glycosyl-PtdIns) anchors of membrane proteins. In this report, GlcN(acyl)PtdIns metabolically labeled with [3H]inositol is shown to accumulate in a HeLa S3 cell subline. The amount of GlcN(acyl)PtdIns in these HeLa S3 cells is about 10(7) molecules/cell, a level comparable to those of the most abundant glycosyl-PtdIns-containing molecules reported to date. GlcN(acyl)PtdIns was purified by a two-step procedure involving octyl-Sepharose and thin-layer chromatography. Octyl-Sepharose separated phospholipids according to their number of hydrocarbon chains: one in 2-lysoPtdIns, two in PtdIns, and three in GlcN(acyl)PtdIns. Purification also was aided by prior treatment of lipid extracts with bee venom phospholipase A2, an enzyme that did not cleave GlcN(acyl)PtdIns. The GlcN-inositol head group in purified GlcN(acyl)PtdIns was confirmed by a number of procedures, including cation-exchange chromatography and mass spectrometry; after radiomethylation, an equal molar ratio of GlcN(Me)2/inositol was measured. Fatty acid analysis indicated an overall stoichiometry of 2.3 mol fatty acid/mol inositol with palmitic (16:0), stearic (18:0) and oleic (18:1) acids being predominant. Analysis of GlcN(acyl)inositol produced by HF fragmentation showed that palmitate was the acyl group attached to inositol and indicated that stearic and oleic acids were in the glycerolipid. Base methanolysis revealed that about 15% of the purified GlcN(acyl)PtdIns contained alkylglycerol. A substantial conversion of GlcN(acyl)PtdIns to a slightly more polar lipid occurred after overnight incubation in even mildly alkaline buffers. Although the current data do not allow proposal of a structure for this lipid, its formation from GlcN(acyl)PtdIns may be important because the conversion appeared to occur in vivo.
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- D Sevlever
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4965, USA
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Brewis IA, Ferguson MA, Mehlert A, Turner AJ, Hooper NM. Structures of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchors of porcine and human renal membrane dipeptidase. Comprehensive structural studies on the porcine anchor and interspecies comparison of the glycan core structures. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:22946-56. [PMID: 7559431 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.39.22946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The glycan core structures of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors on porcine and human renal membrane dipeptidase (EC 3.4.13.19) were determined following deamination and reduction by a combination of liquid chromatography, exoglycosidase digestions, and methylation analysis. The glycan core was found to exhibit microheterogeneity with three structures observed for the porcine GPI anchor: Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-6Man alpha 1-4GlcN (29% of the total population), Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-6(GalNAc beta 1-4)Man alpha 1-4GlcN (33%), and Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-6(Gal beta 1-3GalNAc beta 1-4)Man alpha 1-4GlcN (38%). The same glycan core structures were also found in the human anchor but in slightly different proportions (25, 52, and 17%, respectively). Additionally, a small amount (6%) of the second structure with an extra mannose alpha (1-2)-linked to the non-reducing terminal mannose was also observed in the human membrane dipeptidase GPI anchor. A small proportion (maximally 9%) of the porcine GPI anchor structures was found to contain sialic acid, probably linked to the GalNAc residue. The porcine GPI anchor was found to contain 2.5 mol of ethanolamine/mol of anchor. Negative-ion electrospray-mass spectrometry revealed the presence of exclusively diacyl-phosphatidylinositol (predominantly distearoyl-phosphatidylinositol with a minor amount of stearoyl-palmitoyl-phosphatidylinositol) in the porcine membrane dipeptidase anchor. Porcine membrane dipeptidase was digested with trypsin and the C-terminal peptide attached to the GPI anchor isolated by removal of the other tryptic peptides on anhydrotrypsin-Sepharose. The sequence of this peptide was determined as Thr-Asn-Tyr-Gly-Tyr-Ser, thereby identifying the site of attachment of the GPI anchor as Ser368. This work represents a comprehensive study of the GPI anchor structure of porcine membrane dipeptidase and the first interspecies comparison of mammalian GPI anchor structures on the same protein.
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- I A Brewis
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Baldwin MA, Cohen FE, Prusiner SB. Prion protein isoforms, a convergence of biological and structural investigations. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:19197-200. [PMID: 7642588 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.33.19197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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- M A Baldwin
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0518, USA
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Chen SG, Teplow DB, Parchi P, Teller JK, Gambetti P, Autilio-Gambetti L. Truncated forms of the human prion protein in normal brain and in prion diseases. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:19173-80. [PMID: 7642585 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.32.19173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 387] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The cellular form of the prion protein (PrPc) is a glycoprotein anchored to the cell membrane by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol moiety. An aberrant form of PrPc that is partially resistant to proteases, PrPres, is a hallmark of prion diseases, which in humans include Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, and fatal familial insomnia. We have characterized the major forms of PrP in normal and pathological human brains. A COOH-terminal fragment of PrPc, designated C1, is abundant in normal and CJD brains as well as in human neuroblastoma cells. Sequence analysis revealed that C1 contains alternative NH2 termini starting at His-111 or Met-112. Like PrPc, C1 is glycosylated, anchored to the cell membrane, and is heat-stable. Consistent with the lack of the NH2-terminal region of PrPc, C1 is more acidic than PrPc and does not bind heparin. An additional fragment longer than C1, designated C2, is present in substantial amounts in CJD brains. Like PrPres, C2 is resistant to proteases and is detergent-insoluble. Our data indicate that C1 is a major product of normal PrPc metabolism, generated by a cleavage that disrupts the neurotoxic and amyloidogenic region of PrP comprising residues 106-126. This region remains intact in C2, suggesting a role for C2 in prion diseases.
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- S G Chen
- Division of Neuropathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Liberski PP. Prions, beta-sheets and transmissible dementias: is there still something missing? Acta Neuropathol 1995; 90:113-25. [PMID: 7484085 DOI: 10.1007/bf00294309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- P P Liberski
- Laboratory of Electron Microscopic & Neuropathology, Medical Academy Lodz, Poland
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Arnold JE, Tipler C, Laszlo L, Hope J, Landon M, Mayer RJ. The abnormal isoform of the prion protein accumulates in late-endosome-like organelles in scrapie-infected mouse brain. J Pathol 1995; 176:403-11. [PMID: 7562256 DOI: 10.1002/path.1711760412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The prion encephalopathies are characterized by accumulation in the brain of the abnormal form PrPsc of a normal host gene product PrPc. The mechanism and site of formation of PrPsc from PrPc are currently unknown. In this study, ME7 scrapie-infected mouse brain was used to show, both biochemically and by double-labelled immunogold electron microscopy, that proteinase K-resistant PrPsc is enriched in subcellular structures which contain the cation-independent mannose 6-phosphate receptor, ubiquitin-protein conjugates, beta-glucuronidase, and cathepsin B, termed late endosome-like organelles. The glycosylinositol phospholipid membrane-anchored PrPc will enter such compartment for normal degradation and the organelles may therefore act as chambers for the conversion of PrPc into infectious PrPsc in this murine model of scrapie.
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- J E Arnold
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, U.K
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Lu P, Sturman JA, Bolton DC. Altered GABA distribution in hamster brain is an early molecular consequence of infection by scrapie prions. Brain Res 1995; 681:235-41. [PMID: 7552289 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00298-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Antibodies specific for GABA, glutamate and taurine were used to study the distribution of these amino acid neurotransmitters during the progression of scrapie in hamsters. Immunohistochemical distribution of glutamate and taurine were unaffected in scrapie hamsters compared with controls, but the distribution of GABA was altered by 21 days after inoculation. We found both a greater number of neurons showing GABA-like immunoreactivity and more intense staining in those neurons in scrapie-inoculated hamster brains, particularly in the hippocampus, inferior colliculus, frontal cortex and cerebellum. The overall concentrations of aspartate, GABA, glutamate and taurine, measured in seven different brain regions by PITC-amino acid analysis, were not significantly different between normal and scrapie-affected hamsters. The subtle alteration in GABA metabolism detected in this scrapie model suggests that PrPSc interacts directly with a component of the GABA system.
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- P Lu
- Department of Developmental Biochemistry, New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island 10314, USA
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Chapter 12 Mass Spectrometry of Carbohydrates and Glycoconjugates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4770(08)60517-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Wait R, Jones C, Routier FH, Previato JO, Mendonça-Previato L. Structure determination of phosphoinositol oligosaccharides from parasitic protozoa using fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1002/oms.1210291209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Bessen RA, Marsh RF. Distinct PrP properties suggest the molecular basis of strain variation in transmissible mink encephalopathy. J Virol 1994; 68:7859-68. [PMID: 7966576 PMCID: PMC237248 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.12.7859-7868.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 559] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The molecular basis of strain variation in scrapie diseases is unknown. The only identified component of the agent is the posttranslationally modified host prion protein (PrPSc). The biochemical and physical properties of PrP from two strains of transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME), called hyper (HY) and drowsy (DY), were compared to investigate if PrP heterogeneity could account for strain diversity. The degradation rate of PrPTME digested with proteinase K was found to be strain specific and correlated with inactivation of the TME titer. Edman protein sequencing revealed that the major N-terminal end of HY PrPTME commenced at least 10 amino acid residues prior to that of DY PrPTME after digestion with proteinase K. Analysis of the brain distribution of PrPTME exhibited a strain-specific pattern and localization of PrPTME to the perikarya of specific neuron populations. Our findings are consistent with HY and DY PrPTME having distinct protein conformations and/or strain-specific ligand interactions that influence PrPTME properties. We propose that PrPTME conformation could play a role in targeting TME strains to different neuron populations in which strain-specific formation occurs. These data are consistent with the idea that PrPTME protein structure determines the molecular basis of strain variation.
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- R A Bessen
- Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, Montana 59840
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High Prion and PrPSc Levels but Delayed Onset of Disease in Scrapie-Inoculated Mice Heterozygous for a Disrupted PrP Gene. Mol Med 1994. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03403528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Telling GC, Scott M, Hsiao KK, Foster D, Yang SL, Torchia M, Sidle KC, Collinge J, DeArmond SJ, Prusiner SB. Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from humans to transgenic mice expressing chimeric human-mouse prion protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:9936-40. [PMID: 7937921 PMCID: PMC44932 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.21.9936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Transgenic (Tg) mice were constructed that express a chimeric prion protein (PrP) in which a segment of mouse (Mo) PrP was replaced with the corresponding human (Hu) PrP sequence. The chimeric PrP, designated MHu2MPrP, differs from MoPrP by 9 amino acids between residues 96 and 167. All of the Tg(MHu2M) mice developed neurologic disease approximately 200 days after inoculation with brain homogenates from three patients dying of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Inoculation of Tg(MHu2M) mice with CJD prions produced MHu2MPrPSc (where PrPSc is the scrapie isoform of PrP); inoculation with Mo prions produced Mo-PrPSc. The patterns of MHu2MPrPSc and MoPrPSc accumulation in the brains of Tg(MHu2M) mice were different. About 10% of Tg(HuPrP) mice expressing HuPrP and non-Tg mice developed neurologic disease > 500 days after inoculation with CJD prions. The different susceptibilities of Tg(HuPrP) and Tg(MHu2M) mice to Hu prions indicate that additional species-specific factors are involved in prion replication. Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Hu prion diseases should be facilitated by Tg(MHu2M) mice.
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- G C Telling
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Redman CA, Thomas-Oates JE, Ogata S, Ikehara Y, Ferguson MA. Structure of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchor of human placental alkaline phosphatase. Biochem J 1994; 302 ( Pt 3):861-5. [PMID: 7945214 PMCID: PMC1137310 DOI: 10.1042/bj3020861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchor of human placental alkaline phosphatase was isolated by exhaustive proteolysis followed by hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The resulting glycosylphosphatidylinositol-peptide was subjected to compositional analysis and chemical and enzymic modifications. The neutral-glycan fraction, prepared by dephosphorylation followed by HNO2 deamination and reduction, was sequenced using exoglycosidases and acetolysis. The phosphatidylinositol moiety was analysed by fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Taken together the data suggest the structure, Thr-Asp-ethanolamine-PO4-Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-6Man alpha 1-4GlcN-(sn-1-O- alkyl-2-O-acylglycerol-3-PO4-1-myo-D-inositol), which contains an additional ethanolamine phosphate group at an unknown position.
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- C A Redman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, U.K
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Jeffrey M, Goodsir CM, Bruce ME, McBride PA, Fowler N, Scott JR. Murine scrapie-infected neurons in vivo release excess prion protein into the extracellular space. Neurosci Lett 1994; 174:39-42. [PMID: 7970151 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(94)90113-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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An originally heretical proposition that the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are caused by a host-coded protein (the prion hypothesis) is now current dogma. Indeed these disorders are commonly called prion diseases but the prion hypothesis provides no readily acceptable explanation for the source of the informational component of the agent necessary to code for the diversity of strains of scrapie. Ultrastructural immunolocalisation of prion protein (PrP) in murine scrapie shows that PrP accumulates in association with the plasmalemma of neurones, diffusing from the neuronal cell surface into the extracellular space around small neurites prior to aggregation and fibril assembly. These events occur without the involvement of other cell types. The area of neuropil infiltrated with extracellular PrP around infected neurons and neurites indicates that the form of PrP initially produced is not immediately amyloidogenic.
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- M Jeffrey
- Lasswade Veterinary Laboratory, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
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Redman CA, Green BN, Thomas-Oates JE, Reinhold VN, Ferguson MA. Analysis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchors by electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry and collision induced dissociation. Glycoconj J 1994; 11:187-93. [PMID: 7841793 DOI: 10.1007/bf00731217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The multi-component nature of glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchors makes the analysis of their structure complex. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of delipidated glycosylphosphatidylinositol-peptide fractions can supply considerable information but requires relatively large quantities of material. High-sensitivity sequencing techniques are available for the oligosaccharide portions of glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors, but there is no simple and generally applicable technique to complement this information. In this paper we describe the application of electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry and collision induced dissociation to study intact glycosylphosphatidylinositol-peptides from a Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoprotein. Collision of the [M + 4H]4+ pseudomolecular ions of two glycosylphosphatidylinositol-peptide glycoforms produced easily interpretable daughter ion spectra, from which detailed information on the lipid moiety, carbohydrate sequence and site of peptide attachment could be obtained. All of the collision induced dissociation cleavage events occurred in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol portion of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol-peptide. This technique supplies complementary data to the high-sensitivity oligosaccharide sequencing procedures and should greatly assist glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor structure-function studies, particularly when sample quantities are limiting.
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- C A Redman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Baldwin MA, Pan KM, Nguyen J, Huang Z, Groth D, Serban A, Gasset M, Mehlhorn I, Fletterick RJ, Cohen FE. Spectroscopic characterization of conformational differences between PrPC and PrPSc: an alpha-helix to beta-sheet transition. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1994; 343:435-41. [PMID: 7913763 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1994.0041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Although no chemical modifications have been found to distinguish the cellular prion protein PrPC from its infectious analogue PrPSc, spectroscopic methods such as Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy reveal a major conformational difference. PrPC is rich in alpha-helix but is devoid of beta-sheet, whereas PrPSc is high in beta-sheet. N-terminal truncation of PrPSc by limited proteolysis does not destroy infectivity but it increases the beta-sheet content and shifts the FTIR absorption to lower frequencies, typical of the cross beta-pleated sheets of amyloids. Thus the formation of PrPSc from PrPC involves a conformational transition in which one or more alpha-helical regions of the protein is converted to beta-sheet. This transition is mimicked by synthetic peptides, allowing predictions of domains of PrP involved in prion diseases.
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- M A Baldwin
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0518
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Scrapie was thought for many years to be caused by a virus. Enriching fractions from Syrian hamster (SHa) brain for scrapie infectivity led to the discovery of the prion protein (PrP). To date, no scrapie-specific nucleic acid has been found. As well as scrapie, prion diseases include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) of cattle, as well as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) of humans. Transgenic (Tg) mice expressing both SHa and mouse (Mo) PrP genes were used to probe the molecular basis of the species barrier and the mechanism of scrapie prion replication. The prion inoculum was found to dictate which prions are synthesized de novo, even though the cells express both PrP genes. Discovery of mutations in the PrP genes of humans with GSS and familial CJD established that prion diseases are both genetic and infectious. Tg mice expressing MoPrP with the GSS point mutation spontaneously develop neurologic dysfunction, spongiform degeneration and astrocytic gliosis. Inoculation of brain extracts prepared from these Tg(MoPrP-P101L) mice produced neurodegeneration in many of the recipient animals after prolonged incubation times. These and other results suggest that prions are devoid of foreign nucleic acid and are thus different from viruses and viroids. Studies on the structure of PrPSc and PrPC suggest that the difference is conformational. Whether one or more putative alpha-helices in PrPC are converted into beta-sheets during synthesis of PrPSc is unknown. Distinct prion isolates or 'strains' exhibit different patterns of PrPSc accumulation which are independent of incubation times. Whether variations in PrPSc conformation are responsible for prion diversity remains to be established. Prion studies have given new insights into the etiologies of infectious, sporadic and inherited degenerative diseases.
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- S B Prusiner
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Westaway D, DeArmond SJ, Cayetano-Canlas J, Groth D, Foster D, Yang SL, Torchia M, Carlson GA, Prusiner SB. Degeneration of skeletal muscle, peripheral nerves, and the central nervous system in transgenic mice overexpressing wild-type prion proteins. Cell 1994; 76:117-29. [PMID: 8287472 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(94)90177-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 270] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Prion diseases of humans and animals are known to be caused by infection with prions containing PrPSc or mutation of the prion protein (PrP) gene. During transgenetic studies, we discovered that uninoculated older mice harboring high copy numbers of wild-type (wt) PrP transgenes derived from Syrian hamsters (SHa), sheep (She), and PrP-B mice developed truncal ataxia, hindlimb paralysis, and tremors. These transgenic (Tg) mice exhibited a profound necrotizing myopathy involving skeletal muscle, a demyelinating polyneuropathy, and focal vacuolation of the central nervous system. Development of disease was dependent on transgene dosage. For example, half of all Tg(SHaPrP+/+)7 mice homozygous for the SHaPrP transgene array developed disease by approximately 460 days of age, while no hemizygous Tg(SHaPrP+/o)7 mice became ill before 650 days. The novel neurologic syndrome found in older Tg(wtPrP) mice implies that overexpression of wtPrPC is pathogenic and widens the spectrum of prion diseases.
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- D Westaway
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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- A K Menon
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706
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- M Pocchiari
- Section of Persistent and Slow Virus Infections, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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Mehlert A, Varon L, Silman I, Homans SW, Ferguson MA. Structure of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol membrane anchor of acetylcholinesterase from the electric organ of the electric-fish, Torpedo californica. Biochem J 1993; 296 ( Pt 2):473-9. [PMID: 8257440 PMCID: PMC1137719 DOI: 10.1042/bj2960473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The structure of the glycan moiety of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) membrane anchor from Torpedo californica (electric fish) electric-organ acetylcholinesterase was solved using n.m.r., methylation analysis and chemical and enzymic micro-sequencing. Two structures were found to be present: Glc alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-6Man alpha 1-4GlcN alpha 1-6myo-inositol and Glc alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-6(GalNAc beta 1-4)Man alpha 1-4GlcN alpha 1-6myo-inositol. The presence of glucose in this GPI anchor structure is a novel feature. The anchor was also shown to contain 2.3 residues of ethanolamine per molecule.
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- A Mehlert
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K
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- S J DeArmond
- Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0506
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Haynes PA, Gooley AA, Ferguson MA, Redmond JW, Williams KL. Post-translational modifications of the Dictyostelium discoideum glycoprotein PsA. Glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchor and composition of O-linked oligosaccharides. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1993; 216:729-37. [PMID: 8404891 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb18192.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Prespore-specific antigen (PsA) is a cell-surface glycoprotein isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum, which is post-translationally modified by addition of carbohydrate to threonine residues of the carboxy-terminal peptide domain, and a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor which attaches the glycoprotein to the cell membrane. The GPI anchor was isolated by proteolytic cleavage of the protein, and the structure of the lipid and glycan portions of the anchor were determined. The lipid moiety of the anchor is an inositolphosphoceramide which contains C18:0 phytosphingosine as a long chain base, and a mixture of fatty acids with a C18:1 mono-unsaturated fatty acid as the major component. The purified GPI anchor was susceptible to digestion by a bacterial phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase-C enzyme. The glycan of the GPI anchor consisted of two molecular species present in the ratio 55:45, the structures of which were determined by exoglycosidase sequencing and found to be Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-6Man alpha 1-4GlcNH2 and Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-2Man alpha 1-6Man alpha 1-4GlcNH2. The glucosamine in both structures is glycosidically linked to the inositol ring of the inositolphosphoceramide. The GPI glycan structures are consistent with the conserved core structure of all characterised GPI anchors, and the structure of the D. discoideum GPI moiety has features in common with structures from yeast, protozoa and higher eukaryotes. Compositional analysis of the carbohydrate attached to threonine residues in the carboxy-terminal peptide domain is also presented. The oligosaccharides bind to wheat germ agglutinin, and contain glucosamine and fucose as the major constituents.
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- P A Haynes
- Macquarie University Centre for Analytical Biotechnology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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McConville MJ, Ferguson MA. The structure, biosynthesis and function of glycosylated phosphatidylinositols in the parasitic protozoa and higher eukaryotes. Biochem J 1993; 294 ( Pt 2):305-24. [PMID: 8373346 PMCID: PMC1134455 DOI: 10.1042/bj2940305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 674] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Pan KM, Stahl N, Prusiner SB. Purification and properties of the cellular prion protein from Syrian hamster brain. Protein Sci 1993; 1:1343-52. [PMID: 1363897 PMCID: PMC2142104 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560011014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The cellular prion protein (PrPC) is encoded by a chromosomal gene, and its scrapie isoform (PrPSc) features in all aspects of the prion diseases. Prior to the studies reported here, purification of PrPC has only been accomplished using immunoaffinity chromatography yielding small amounts of protein. Brain homogenates contain two PrPC forms designated PrPC-I and -II. These proteins were purified from a microsomal fraction by detergent extraction and separated by immobilized Cu2+ ion affinity chromatography. PrPC-II appears to be generated from PrPC-I by limited proteolysis of the N-terminus. Fractions enriched for PrPC-I were purified further by cation-exchange chromatography and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Greater than 90% of the final product migrated as a broad band of M(r) 33-35 kDa as judged by silver staining after SDS-PAGE. Digestion of PrPC-I with peptide-N-glycosidase (PNGase) compressed the band and shifted its mobility giving an M(r) of 27 kDa. The protocol described should be amenable to large-scale preparation of PrPC, enabling physical comparisons of PrPC and PrPSc.
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- K M Pan
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Baldwin MA, Burlingame AL, Prusiner SB. Mass spectrometric analysis of a GPI-anchored protein: The scrapie prion protein. Trends Analyt Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/0165-9936(93)87063-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Rogers M, Yehiely F, Scott M, Prusiner SB. Conversion of truncated and elongated prion proteins into the scrapie isoform in cultured cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:3182-6. [PMID: 8475059 PMCID: PMC46263 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.8.3182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The only known component of the infectious prion is a posttranslationally modified protein known as the scrapie isoform of the prion protein, PrPSc. Upon limited proteolysis, a protease-resistant fragment designated PrP 27-30 is formed. Using in vitro mutagenesis, we examined the role of the N and C termini in the formation of PrPSc in persistently infected, mouse neuroblastoma (ScN2a) cells. Neither deletion of amino acids 23-88, which are also removed by proteinase K in the formation of PrP 27-30, nor deletion of the five octapeptide repeats within this region altered synthesis of PrPSc. Elongation of PrP with one, two, four, or six octapeptide repeats in addition to the five found in wild-type PrP did not alter the synthesis of PrPSc. Truncation of the C terminus was accomplished by substituting a translation stop codon for the predicted glycosylinositol phospholipid (GPI) anchor-attachment signal corresponding to amino acids 231-254. Expression of this C-terminal PrP mutant in ScN2a cells produced PrPSc that appeared to lack a GPI anchor. We conclude that neither the GPI anchor nor the N-terminal 66 amino acids are required for the synthesis of PrPSc as measured by the acquisition of limited resistance to proteinase K digestion. Whether these truncated or elongated PrP molecules are competent to participate in the formation of infectious prions remains to be established.
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- M Rogers
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Ferguson MA, Murray P, Rutherford H, McConville MJ. A simple purification of procyclic acidic repetitive protein and demonstration of a sialylated glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol membrane anchor. Biochem J 1993; 291 ( Pt 1):51-5. [PMID: 8471053 PMCID: PMC1132479 DOI: 10.1042/bj2910051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The procyclic acidic repetitive protein is the major cell-surface glycoprotein of the insect-dwelling procyclic forms of the Trypanosoma brucei species of African trypanosomes. The glycoprotein contains an acidic Glu-Pro repeat domain, a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol membrane anchor and a putative asparagine glycosylation site. In this paper we describe a rapid purification scheme for this glycoprotein, using solvent extraction and hydrophobic interaction chromatography, and a partial characterization of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchor. The carbohydrate composition of the anchor is extremely unusual; it contains on average nine GlcNAc, nine Gal, and five sialic acid residues. This is the first description of such a heavily substituted and negatively charged anchor. A comparison between the trypanosome procyclic surface and the Leishmania promastigote surface is also presented.
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- M A Ferguson
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K
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Stahl N, Baldwin MA, Teplow DB, Hood L, Gibson BW, Burlingame AL, Prusiner SB. Structural studies of the scrapie prion protein using mass spectrometry and amino acid sequencing. Biochemistry 1993; 32:1991-2002. [PMID: 8448158 DOI: 10.1021/bi00059a016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 465] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The only component of the infectious scrapie prion identified to date is a protein designated PrPSc. A posttranslational process converts the cellular PrP isoform (PrPC) into PrPSc. Denatured PrPSc was digested with endoproteases, and the resulting fragments were isolated by HPLC. By both mass spectrometry and Edman sequencing, the primary structure of PrPSc was found to be the same as that deduced from the PrP gene sequence, arguing that neither RNA editing nor protein splicing feature in the synthesis of PrPSc. Mass spectrometry also was used to search for posttranslational chemical modifications other than the glycosylinositol phospholipid anchor attached to the C-terminus and two Asn-linked oligosaccharides already known to occur on both PrPSc and PrPC. These results contend that PrPSc molecules do not differ from PrPC at the level of an amino acid substitution or a posttranslational chemical modification; however, we cannot eliminate the possibility that a small fraction of PrPSc is modified by an as yet unidentified posttranslational process or that PrPC carries a modification that is removed in the formation of PrPSc. It seems likely that PrPSc differs from PrPC in its secondary and tertiary structure, but the possibility of a tightly bound, disease-specific molecule which purifies with PrPSc must also be considered.
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- N Stahl
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Broomfield SJ, Hooper NM. Characterization of an antibody to the cross-reacting determinant of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchor of human membrane dipeptidase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1145:212-8. [PMID: 7679286 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(93)90291-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A polyclonal antiserum raised to the phospholipase C-solubilized form of membrane dipeptidase (EC 3.4.13.11) purified from human kidney was found to cross-react with unrelated trypanosomal and porcine glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchored proteins. Those antibodies recognising the cross-reacting determinant (CRD) were isolated by chromatography on a column of immobilized phospholipase C-solubilized porcine aminopeptidase P (EC 3.4.11.9), and the epitopes involved in the recognition were then characterized by immunoelectrophoretic blot analysis and by a competitive ELISA. The phospholipase C-solubilized forms of human and porcine membrane dipeptidase, porcine aminopeptidase P and trypanosome variant surface glycoprotein were recognised by the anti-CRD antiserum, and this recognition was abolished by prior treatment of the proteins with either mild acid or nitrous acid. In contrast, the detergent-solubilized, membrane-forms of human and porcine membrane dipeptidase were not recognised. Of a range of components of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchor, only inositol 1,2-cyclic monophosphate and the insulin-mimetic disaccharide, glucosaminyl-1,6-inositol 1,2-cyclic monophosphate, inhibited in the micromolar range the binding of the anti-CRD antiserum to immobilized porcine aminopeptidase P. These results indicate that the major epitope recognised by this anti-CRD antiserum is the inositol 1,2-cyclic monophosphate formed on phospholipase C cleavage of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchor.
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- S J Broomfield
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, UK
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Hope J. The biology and molecular biology of scrapie-like diseases. ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY. SUPPLEMENTUM 1993; 7:201-14. [PMID: 8219804 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-9300-6_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE's) are degenerative diseases of the central nervous system which naturally affect man (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [CJD], Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome [GSS], kuru), sheep and goats (scrapie), cattle (bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE]), mink (transmissible mink encephalopathy), mule deer, elk and antelope (chronic wasting disease). Spongiform encephalopathies have also been diagnosed in captive species of zoo antelope and in domestic cats. Much has been written about these maladies in the wake of the BSE outbreak, the tragic cases of CJD in recipients of cadaver-derived human growth hormone, sex hormones or dura mater and this has stimulated a continuing public health debate about the transmissibility, prevalence and clinical variability of scrapie, CJD and related ("prion") diseases. Prions (Weissmann, Liautard, this volume) and the human (Kretzschmar, this volume) and cattle (Wilesmith, Marsh, this volume) diseases are described in more detail elsewhere. This article presents a brief overview of the biology and molecular cell biology of scrapie and rodent models of these diseases.
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- J Hope
- AFRC & MRC Neuropathogenesis Unit, Edinburgh, U.K
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Prions cause transmissible and genetic neurodegenerative diseases. Infectious prion particles are composed largely, if not entirely, of an abnormal isoform of the prion protein (PrPSc), which is encoded by a chromosomal gene. Although the PrP gene is single copy, transgenic mice with both alleles of the PrP gene ablated develop normally. A post-translational process, as yet unidentified, converts the cellular prion protein (PrPC) into PrPSc. Scrapie incubation times, neuropathology and prion synthesis in transgenic mice are controlled by the PrP gene. Mutations in this gene are genetically linked to the development of neurodegeneration. Transgenic mice expressing mutant PrP spontaneously develop neurological dysfunction and spongiform neuropathology. Future investigations of prion diseases using molecular biological and genetic approaches promise to yield much new information about these once enigmatic disorders.
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- S B Prusiner
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Hecker R, Taraboulos A, Scott M, Pan KM, Yang SL, Torchia M, Jendroska K, DeArmond SJ, Prusiner SB. Replication of distinct scrapie prion isolates is region specific in brains of transgenic mice and hamsters. Genes Dev 1992; 6:1213-28. [PMID: 1628828 DOI: 10.1101/gad.6.7.1213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Scrapie prions are composed largely, if not entirely, of PrPSc molecules. The prion isolates Sc237 and 139H exhibit markedly different incubation times in Syrian, Armenian, and Chinese hamsters, as well as in transgenic (Tg) 81 mice expressing Syrian hamster PrP (SHaPrP). Repassage of prions from transgenic mice or Chinese hamsters into Syrian hamsters revealed that the original properties of the prion isolates are retained. When Syrian hamsters were first inoculated with 139H prions and subsequently challenged with Sc237 prions, the incubation period was determined by the faster Sc237 isolate. Regional mapping studies demonstrated different kinetics and patterns of PrPSc accumulation for Sc237 and 139H prions in the brains of Syrian hamsters as well as Tg(SHaPrP)7 mice. That distinct prion isolates induce different region-specific accumulations of PrPSc in brain suggests a novel mechanism for propagation of isolates whereby they replicate in particular sets of neurons. The prion isolates could be targeted to specific CNS cells by differing conformations of PrPSc, post-translational modifications of PrPSc such as Asn-linked glycosylation, or an as yet undetected macromolecule complexed with PrPSc in the prion.
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- R Hecker
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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