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Pei F, DiSalvo S, Sindi SS, Serio TR. A dominant-negative mutant inhibits multiple prion variants through a common mechanism. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1007085. [PMID: 29084237 PMCID: PMC5679637 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Revised: 11/09/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Prions adopt alternative, self-replicating protein conformations and thereby determine novel phenotypes that are often irreversible. Nevertheless, dominant-negative prion mutants can revert phenotypes associated with some conformations. These observations suggest that, while intervention is possible, distinct inhibitors must be developed to overcome the conformational plasticity of prions. To understand the basis of this specificity, we determined the impact of the G58D mutant of the Sup35 prion on three of its conformational variants, which form amyloids in S. cerevisiae. G58D had been previously proposed to have unique effects on these variants, but our studies suggest a common mechanism. All variants, including those reported to be resistant, are inhibited by G58D but at distinct doses. G58D lowers the kinetic stability of the associated amyloid, enhancing its fragmentation by molecular chaperones, promoting Sup35 resolubilization, and leading to amyloid clearance particularly in daughter cells. Reducing the availability or activity of the chaperone Hsp104, even transiently, reverses curing. Thus, the specificity of inhibition is determined by the sensitivity of variants to the mutant dosage rather than mode of action, challenging the view that a unique inhibitor must be developed to combat each variant.
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- Fen Pei
- The University of Arizona, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Brown University, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- University of California, Merced, Applied Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences, Merced, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (SS); (TRS)
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- The University of Arizona, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- * E-mail: (SS); (TRS)
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Comparative Susceptibility of Sheep of Different Origins, Breeds and PRNP Genotypes to Challenge with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Scrapie. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0143251. [PMID: 26587837 PMCID: PMC4654545 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Sheep are natural hosts of the prion disease, scrapie. They are also susceptible to experimental challenge with various scrapie strains and with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which affects cattle and has been accidentally transmitted to a range of other species, including man. Incidence and incubation period of clinical disease in sheep following inoculation is controlled by the PRNP gene, which has different alleles defined on the basis of polymorphisms, particularly at codons 136, 154 and 171, although other codons are associated with survival time, and the exact responses of the sheep may be influenced by other breed-related differences. Here we report the results of a long term single study of experimental scrapie and BSE susceptibility of sheep of Cheviot, Poll Dorset and Suffolk breeds, originating from New Zealand and of a wide range of susceptible and resistant PRNP genotypes. Responses were compared with those of sheep from a closed Cheviot flock of UK origin (Roslin Cheviot flock). The unusually long observation period (6-8 years for most, but up to 12 years for others) allows us to draw robust conclusions about rates of survival of animals previously regarded as resistant to infection, particularly PRNP heterozygotes, and is the most comprehensive such study reported to date. BSE inoculation by an intracerebral route produced disease in all genotype groups with differing incubation periods, although M112T and L141F polymorphisms seemed to give some protection. Scrapie isolate SSBP/1, which has the shortest incubation period in sheep with at least one VRQ PRNP allele, also produced disease following sub-cutaneous inoculation in ARQ/ARQ animals of New Zealand origin, but ARQ/ARQ sheep from the Roslin flock survived the challenge. Our results demonstrate that the links between PRNP genotype and clinical prion disease in sheep are much less secure than previously thought, and may break down when, for example, a different breed of sheep is moved into a new flock.
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Krejciova Z, Barria MA, Jones M, Ironside JW, Jeffrey M, González L, Head MW. Genotype-dependent molecular evolution of sheep bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) prions in vitro affects their zoonotic potential. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:26075-26088. [PMID: 25100723 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.582965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Prion diseases are rare fatal neurological conditions of humans and animals, one of which (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) is known to be a zoonotic form of the cattle disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). What makes one animal prion disease zoonotic and others not is poorly understood, but it appears to involve compatibility between the prion strain and the host prion protein sequence. Concerns have been raised that the United Kingdom sheep flock may have been exposed to BSE early in the cattle BSE epidemic and that serial BSE transmission in sheep might have resulted in adaptation of the agent, which may have come to phenotypically resemble scrapie while maintaining its pathogenicity for humans. We have modeled this scenario in vitro. Extrapolation from our results suggests that if BSE were to infect sheep in the field it may, with time and in some sheep genotypes, become scrapie-like at the molecular level. However, the results also suggest that if BSE in sheep were to come to resemble scrapie it would lose its ability to affect humans.
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- Zuzana Krejciova
- National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh EH17 7QT, United Kingdom, and
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- National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Lasswade, Edinburgh EH26 0PZ, United Kingdom
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- Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Lasswade, Edinburgh EH26 0PZ, United Kingdom
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- National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom,.
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Nicot S, Bencsik A, Migliore S, Canal D, Leboidre M, Agrimi U, Nonno R, Baron T. L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy in genetically susceptible and resistant sheep: changes in prion strain or phenotypic plasticity of the disease-associated prion protein? J Infect Dis 2013; 209:950-9. [PMID: 24218507 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Sheep with prion protein (PrP) gene polymorphisms QQ171 and RQ171 were shown to be susceptible to the prion causing L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy (L-BSE), although RQ171 sheep specifically propagated a distinctive prion molecular phenotype in their brains, characterized by a high molecular mass protease-resistant PrP fragment (HMM PrPres), distinct from L-BSE in QQ171 sheep. METHODS The resulting infectious and biological properties of QQ171 and RQ171 ovine L-BSE prions were investigated in transgenic mice expressing either bovine or ovine PrP. RESULTS In both mouse lines, ovine L-BSE transmitted similarly to cattle-derived L-BSE, with respect to survival periods, histopathology, and biochemical features of PrPres in the brain, as well as splenotropism, clearly differing from ovine classic BSE or from scrapie strain CH1641. Nevertheless and unexpectedly, HMM PrPres was found in the spleen of ovine PrP transgenic mice infected with L-BSE from RQ171 sheep at first passage, reminiscent, in lymphoid tissues only, of the distinct PrPres features found in RQ171 sheep brains. CONCLUSIONS The L-BSE agent differs from both ovine classic BSE or CH1641 scrapie maintaining its specific strain properties after passage in sheep, although striking PrPres molecular changes could be found in RQ171 sheep and in the spleen of ovine PrP transgenic mice.
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- Simon Nicot
- Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail, Unité Maladies Neuro-Dégénératives, Lyon, France
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Migliore S, Esposito E, Pirisinu L, Marcon S, Di Bari M, D'Agostino C, Chiappini B, Conte M, Sezzi E, De Grossi L, Agrimi U, Vaccari G, Nonno R. Effect of PrP genotype and route of inoculation on the ability of discriminatory Western blot to distinguish scrapie from sheep bovine spongiform encephalopathy. J Gen Virol 2011; 93:450-455. [PMID: 21994325 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.035469-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Procedures for discriminating scrapie from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in sheep are relevant to ascertain whether BSE has entered the sheep population. This study was aimed at investigating whether the suitability of an official EU discriminative method is affected by the sheep PrP genotype and route of infection.
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- Sergio Migliore
- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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Vulin J, Biacabe AG, Cazeau G, Calavas D, Baron T. Molecular typing of protease-resistant prion protein in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies of small ruminants, France, 2002-2009. Emerg Infect Dis 2011; 17:55-63. [PMID: 21192855 PMCID: PMC3204636 DOI: 10.3201/eid1701.100891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The agent that causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) may be infecting small ruminants, which could have serious implications for human health. To distinguish BSE from scrapie and to examine the molecular characteristics of the protease-resistant prion protein (PrPres), we used a specifically designed Western blot method to test isolates from 648 sheep and 53 goats. During 2002–2009, classical non-Nor98 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy had been confirmed among ≈1.7 million small ruminants in France. Five sheep and 2 goats that showed a PrPres pattern consistent with BSE, or with the CH1641 experimental scrapie source, were identified. Later, bioassays confirmed infection by the BSE agent in 1 of the 2 goats. Western blot testing of the 6 other isolates showed an additional C-terminally cleaved PrPres product, with an unglycosylated band at ≈14 kDa, similar to that found in the CH1641 experimental scrapie isolate and different from the BSE isolate.
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- Johann Vulin
- Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire, Lyon, France
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Saunders GC, Lantier I, Cawthraw S, Berthon P, Moore SJ, Arnold ME, Windl O, Simmons MM, Andréoletti O, Bellworthy S, Lantier F. Protective effect of the T112 PrP variant in sheep challenged with bovine spongiform encephalopathy. J Gen Virol 2009; 90:2569-2574. [PMID: 19587133 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.012724-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Sheep with an ARQ/ARQ PRNP genotype at codon positions 136/154/171 are highly susceptible to experimental infection with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). However, a number of sheep challenged orally or intracerebrally with BSE were clinically asymptomatic and found to survive or were diagnosed as BSE-negative when culled. Sequencing of the full PRNP gene open reading frame of BSE-susceptible and -resistant sheep indicated that, in the majority of Suffolk sheep, resistance was associated with an M112T PRNP variant (TARQ allele). A high proportion (47 of 49; 96%) of BSE-challenged wild-type (MARQ/MARQ) Suffolk sheep were BSE-infected, whereas none of the 20 sheep with at least one TARQ allele succumbed to BSE. Thirteen TARQ-carrying sheep challenged with BSE are still alive and some have survival periods equivalent to, or greater than, reported incubation periods of BSE in ARR/ARR and VRQ/VRQ sheep.
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- G C Saunders
- Molecular Pathogenesis and Genetics Department, Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA Weybridge), New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
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- INRA, UR1282, Infectiologie Animale et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
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- Molecular Pathogenesis and Genetics Department, Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA Weybridge), New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
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- INRA, UR1282, Infectiologie Animale et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
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- Pathology Department, VLA Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
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- CERA, VLA Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
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- Molecular Pathogenesis and Genetics Department, Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA Weybridge), New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
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- Pathology Department, VLA Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
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- UMR INRA-ENVT, Interactions Hôtes-Agents Pathogènes, Ecole Vétérinaire de Toulouse, F-310761 Toulouse, France
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- Pathology Department, VLA Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
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- INRA, UR1282, Infectiologie Animale et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
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Simmons MM, Spiropoulos J, Hawkins SAC, Bellworthy SJ, Tongue SC. Approaches to investigating transmission of spongiform encephalopathies in domestic animals using BSE as an example. Vet Res 2008; 39:34. [PMID: 18284911 DOI: 10.1051/vetres:2008011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2007] [Accepted: 02/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy was a novel spongiform encephalopathy, in an hitherto unaffected species, that had characteristics of a point source epidemic, with an agent that could have been incorporated into a wide variety of feedstuffs and iatrogenically administered to naïve populations, and there was early evidence that it was not restricted to bovines. It was vital to establish, albeit experimentally, which other species might be affected, and whether the epidemic could be maintained by natural transmission, if the source was removed. In contrast, scrapie has been endemic throughout Great Britain for centuries, is maintained naturally (even if we don't know exactly how) and has a known host range. The principles, process and integration of evidence from different types of studies, however, are similar for both of these transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) and can be applied to any emerging or suspected spongiform encephalopathy. This review discusses the experimental approaches used to determine TSE transmissibility and infectivity and how they relate to natural disease and control measures.
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- Marion Mathieson Simmons
- Pathology Department, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Woodham Lane, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 3NB, UK.
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Groschup MH, Lacroux C, Buschmann A, Lühken G, Mathey J, Eiden M, Lugan S, Hoffmann C, Espinosa JC, Baron T, Torres JM, Erhardt G, Andreoletti O. Classic scrapie in sheep with the ARR/ARR prion genotype in Germany and France. Emerg Infect Dis 2007; 13:1201-7. [PMID: 17953092 PMCID: PMC2828083 DOI: 10.3201/eid1308.070077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We report 2 natural scrapie cases in sheep carrying the ARR/ARR prion genotype, which is believed to confer resistance against classic scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. In the past, natural scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) infections have essentially not been diagnosed in sheep homozygous for the A136R154R171 haplotype of the prion protein. This genotype was therefore assumed to confer resistance to BSE and classic scrapie under natural exposure conditions. Hence, to exclude prions from the human food chain, massive breeding efforts have been undertaken in the European Union to amplify this gene. We report the identification of 2 natural scrapie cases in ARR/ARR sheep that have biochemical and transmission characteristics similar to cases of classic scrapie, although the abnormally folded prion protein (PrPSc) was associated with a lower proteinase-K resistance. PrPSc was clearly distinct from BSE prions passaged in sheep and from atypical scrapie prions. These findings strongly support the idea that scrapie prions are a mosaic of agents, which harbor different biologic properties, rather than a unique entity.
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- Martin H Groschup
- Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Insel Riems, Germany.
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Paludi D, Thellung S, Chiovitti K, Corsaro A, Villa V, Russo C, Ianieri A, Bertsch U, Kretzschmar HA, Aceto A, Florio T. Different structural stability and toxicity of PrP(ARR) and PrP(ARQ) sheep prion protein variants. J Neurochem 2007; 103:2291-300. [PMID: 17919292 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04934.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The polymorphisms at amino acid residues 136, 154, and 171 in ovine prion protein (PrP) have been associated with different susceptibility to scrapie: animals expressing PrP(ARQ) [PrP(Ala136/Arg154/Gln171)] show vulnerability, whereas those that express PrP(ARR) [PrP(Ala136/Arg154/Arg171)] are resistant to scrapie. The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro toxic effects of PrP(ARR) and PrP(ARQ) variants in relation with their structural characteristics. We show that both peptides cause cell death inducing apoptosis but, unexpectedly, the scrapie resistant PrP(ARR) form was more toxic than the scrapie susceptible PrP(ARQ) variant. Moreover, the alpha-helical conformation of PrP(ARR) was less stable than that of PrP(ARQ) and the structural determinants responsible of these different conformational stabilities were characterized by spectroscopic analysis. We observed that PrP toxicity was inversely related to protein structural stability, being the unfolded conformation more toxic than the native one. However, the PrP(ARQ) variant displays a higher propensity to form large aggregates than PrP(ARR). Interestingly, in the presence of small amounts of PrP(ARR), PrP(ARQ) aggregability was reduced to levels similar to that of PrP(ARR). Thus, in contrast to PrP(ARR) toxicity, scrapie transmissibility seems to reside in the more stable conformation of PrP(ARQ) that allows the formation of large amyloid fibrils.
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- Domenico Paludi
- Department of Scienze degli Alimenti, Veterinary School, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
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Opinion of the Scientific Panel on biological hazards (BIOHAZ) on the quantitative risk assessment on the residual BSE risk in sheep meat and meat products. EFSA J 2007. [DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2007.442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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