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Lakkaraju AKK, Frontzek K, Lemes E, Herrmann U, Losa M, Marpakwar R, Aguzzi A. Loss of PIKfyve drives the spongiform degeneration in prion diseases. EMBO Mol Med 2021; 13:e14714. [PMID: 34291577 PMCID: PMC8518562 DOI: 10.15252/emmm.202114714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Revised: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Brain‐matter vacuolation is a defining trait of all prion diseases, yet its cause is unknown. Here, we report that prion infection and prion‐mimetic antibodies deplete the phosphoinositide kinase PIKfyve—which controls endolysosomal maturation—from mouse brains, cultured cells, organotypic brain slices, and brains of Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease victims. We found that PIKfyve is acylated by the acyltransferases zDHHC9 and zDHHC21, whose juxtavesicular topology is disturbed by prion infection, resulting in PIKfyve deacylation and rapid degradation, as well as endolysosomal hypertrophy and activation of TFEB‐dependent lysosomal enzymes. A protracted unfolded protein response (UPR), typical of prion diseases, also induced PIKfyve deacylation and degradation. Conversely, UPR antagonists restored PIKfyve levels in prion‐infected cells. Overexpression of zDHHC9 and zDHHC21, administration of the antiprion polythiophene LIN5044, or supplementation with the PIKfyve reaction product PI(3,5)P2 suppressed prion‐induced vacuolation and restored lysosomal homeostasis. Thus, PIKfyve emerges as a central mediator of vacuolation and neurotoxicity in prion diseases.
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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A New Take on Prion Protein Dynamics in Cellular Trafficking. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21207763. [PMID: 33092231 PMCID: PMC7589859 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21207763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The mobility of cellular prion protein (PrPC) in specific cell membrane domains and among distinct cell compartments dictates its molecular interactions and directs its cell function. PrPC works in concert with several partners to organize signaling platforms implicated in various cellular processes. The scaffold property of PrPC is able to gather a molecular repertoire to create heterogeneous membrane domains that favor endocytic events. Dynamic trafficking of PrPC through multiple pathways, in a well-orchestrated mechanism of intra and extracellular vesicular transport, defines its functional plasticity, and also assists the conversion and spreading of its infectious isoform associated with neurodegenerative diseases. In this review, we highlight how PrPC traffics across intra- and extracellular compartments and the consequences of this dynamic transport in governing cell functions and contributing to prion disease pathogenesis.
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Cellular Prion Protein (PrPc): Putative Interacting Partners and Consequences of the Interaction. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21197058. [PMID: 32992764 PMCID: PMC7583789 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21197058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Revised: 09/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Cellular prion protein (PrPc) is a small glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchored protein most abundantly found in the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane (PM) in the central nervous system (CNS). PrPc misfolding causes neurodegenerative prion diseases in the CNS. PrPc interacts with a wide range of protein partners because of the intrinsically disordered nature of the protein’s N-terminus. Numerous studies have attempted to decipher the physiological role of the prion protein by searching for proteins which interact with PrPc. Biochemical characteristics and biological functions both appear to be affected by interacting protein partners. The key challenge in identifying a potential interacting partner is to demonstrate that binding to a specific ligand is necessary for cellular physiological function or malfunction. In this review, we have summarized the intracellular and extracellular interacting partners of PrPc and potential consequences of their binding. We also briefly describe prion disease-related mutations at the end of this review.
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Gunn TM, Silvius D, Lester A, Gibbs B. Chronic and age-dependent effects of the spongiform neurodegeneration-associated MGRN1 E3 ubiquitin ligase on mitochondrial homeostasis. Mamm Genome 2019; 30:151-165. [PMID: 31089807 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-019-09802-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Spongiform encephalopathy is an intriguing yet poorly understood neuropathology characterized by vacuoles, demyelination, and gliosis. It is observed in patients with prion disease, primary mitochondrial disease, HIV-1 infection of the brain, and some inherited disorders, but the underlying mechanism of disease remains unclear. The brains of mice lacking the MGRN1 E3 ubiquitin ligase develop vacuoles by 9 months of age. MGRN1-dependent ubiquitination has been reported to regulate mitofusin 1 and GP78, suggesting MGRN1 may have a direct effect on mitochondrial homeostasis. Here, we demonstrate that some MGRN1 localizes to mitochondria, most likely due to N-myristoylation, and mitochondria in cells from Mgrn1 null mutant mice display fragmentation and depolarization without recruitment of the parkin E3 ubiquitin ligase. The late onset of pathology in the brains of Mgrn1 null mutant mice suggests that a further, age-dependent effect on mitochondrial homeostasis may be required to trigger vacuolation. Parkin protein and mRNA levels showed a significant decline in the brains of Mgrn1 null mutant mice by 12 months of age. To test whether loss of parkin triggers vacuolation through a synergistic effect, we generated Mgrn1; parkin double mutant mice. By 1 month of age, their brains demonstrated more severe mitochondrial dysfunction than Mgrn1 null mutants, but there was no effect on the age-of-onset of spongiform neurodegeneration. Expression of the ATF4 transcription factor, a key regulator of the mitochondrial stress response, also declined in the brains of aged Mgrn1 null mutant mice. Together, the data presented here indicate that loss of MGRN1 has early, direct effects on mitochondrial homeostasis and late, indirect effects on the ability of cells to respond to mitochondrial stress.
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- Teresa M Gunn
- McLaughlin Research Institute, 1520 23rd St S, Great Falls, MT, USA.
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- McLaughlin Research Institute, 1520 23rd St S, Great Falls, MT, USA
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- McLaughlin Research Institute, 1520 23rd St S, Great Falls, MT, USA
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- McLaughlin Research Institute, 1520 23rd St S, Great Falls, MT, USA
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Walker WP, Oehler A, Edinger AL, Wagner KU, Gunn TM. Oligodendroglial deletion of ESCRT-I component TSG101 causes spongiform encephalopathy. Biol Cell 2016; 108:324-337. [PMID: 27406702 DOI: 10.1111/boc.201600014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2016] [Revised: 07/05/2016] [Accepted: 07/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION Vacuolation of the central nervous system (CNS) is observed in patients with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, HIV-related encephalopathy and some inherited diseases, but the underlying cellular mechanisms remain poorly understood. Mice lacking the mahogunin ring finger-1 (MGRN1) E3 ubiquitin ligase develop progressive, widespread spongiform degeneration of the CNS. MGRN1 ubiquitinates and regulates tumour susceptibility gene 101 (TSG101), a central component of the endosomal trafficking machinery. As loss of MGRN1 is predicted to cause partial TSG101 loss-of-function, we hypothesised that CNS vacuolation in Mgrn1 null mice may be caused by the accumulation of multi-cisternal endosome-like 'class E' vacuolar protein sorting (vps) compartments similar to those observed in Tsg101-depleted cells in culture. RESULTS To test this hypothesis, Tsg101 was deleted from mature oligodendroglia in vivo. This resulted in severe spongiform encephalopathy, histopathologically similar to that observed in Mgrn1 null mutant mice but with a more rapid onset. Vacuoles in the brains of Tsg101-deleted and Mgrn1 mutant mice labelled with endosomal markers, consistent with an endosomal origin. Vacuoles in the brains of mice inoculated with Rocky Mountain Laboratory (RML) prions did not label with these markers, indicating a different origin, consistent with previously published studies that indicate RML prions have a primary effect on neurons and cause vacuolation in an MGRN1-independent manner. Oligodendroglial deletion of Rab7, which mediates late endosome-to-lysosome trafficking and autophagosome-lysosome fusion, did not cause spongiform change. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that the formation of multi-cisternal 'class E' vps endosomal structures in oligodendroglia leads to vacuolation. SIGNIFICANCE This work provides the first evidence that disrupting multi-vesicular body formation in oligodendroglia can cause white matter vacuolation and demyelination. HIV is known to hijack the endosomal sorting machinery, suggesting that HIV infection of the CNS may also act through this pathway to cause encephalopathy.
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- Will P Walker
- McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, MT, 59405, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA
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- McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, MT, 59405, USA.
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Mahogunin regulates fusion between amphisomes/MVBs and lysosomes via ubiquitination of TSG101. Cell Death Dis 2015; 6:e1970. [PMID: 26539917 PMCID: PMC4670916 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2015.257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Revised: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 07/31/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Aberrant metabolic forms of the prion protein (PrP), membrane-associated (Ctm)PrP and cytosolic (cyPrP) interact with the cytosolic ubiquitin E3 ligase, Mahogunin Ring Finger-1 (MGRN1) and affect lysosomes. MGRN1 also interacts with and ubiquitinates TSG101, an ESCRT-I protein, involved in endocytosis. We report that MGRN1 modulates macroautophagy. In cultured cells, functional depletion of MGRN1 or overexpression of (Ctm)PrP and cyPrP blocks autophagosome-lysosome fusion, alleviates the autophagic flux and its degradative competence. Concurrently, the degradation of cargo from the endo-lysosomal pathway is also affected. This is significant because catalytic inactivation of MGRN1 alleviates fusion of lysosomes with either autophagosomes (via amphisomes) or late endosomes (either direct or mediated through amphisomes), without drastically perturbing maturation of late endosomes, generation of amphisomes or lysosomal proteolytic activity. The compromised lysosomal fusion events are rescued by overexpression of TSG101 and/or its monoubiquitination in the presence of MGRN1. Thus, for the first time we elucidate that MGRN1 simultaneously modulates both autophagy and heterophagy via ubiquitin-mediated post-translational modification of TSG101.
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Upadhyay A, Amanullah A, Chhangani D, Mishra R, Prasad A, Mishra A. Mahogunin Ring Finger-1 (MGRN1), a Multifaceted Ubiquitin Ligase: Recent Unraveling of Neurobiological Mechanisms. Mol Neurobiol 2015; 53:4484-96. [PMID: 26255182 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-015-9379-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In healthy cell, inappropriate accumulation of poor or damaged proteins is prevented by cellular quality control system. Autophagy and ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) provides regular cytoprotection against proteotoxicity induced by abnormal or disruptive proteins. E3 ubiquitin ligases are crucial components in this defense mechanism. Mahogunin Ring Finger-1 (MGRN1), an E3 ubiquitin ligase of the Really Interesting New Gene (RING) finger family, plays a pivotal role in many biological and cellular mechanisms. Previous findings indicate that lack of functions of MGRN1 can cause spongiform neurodegeneration, congenital heart defects, abnormal left-right patterning, and mitochondrial dysfunctions in mice brains. However, the detailed molecular pathomechanism of MGRN1 in cellular functions and diseases is not well known. This article comprehensively represents the molecular nature, characterization, and functions of MGRN1; we also summarize possible beneficiary aspects of this novel E3 ubiquitin ligase. Here, we review recent literature on the role of MGRN1 in the neuro-pathobiological mechanisms, with precise focus on the processes of neurodegeneration, and thereby propose new lines of potential targets for therapeutic intervention.
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- Arun Upadhyay
- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342011, India
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- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342011, India
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- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342011, India
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- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342011, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, 175005, India
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- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342011, India.
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Mahogunin ring finger 1 suppresses misfolded polyglutamine aggregation and cytotoxicity. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2014; 1842:1472-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2014.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2014] [Revised: 04/04/2014] [Accepted: 04/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Srivastava D, Chakrabarti O. Mahogunin-mediated α-tubulin ubiquitination via noncanonical K6 linkage regulates microtubule stability and mitotic spindle orientation. Cell Death Dis 2014; 5:e1064. [PMID: 24556679 PMCID: PMC3944237 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2014.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2013] [Revised: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 12/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Mahogunin ring finger-1 (MGRN1) is a cytosolic ubiquitin ligase whose disruption or interaction with some isoforms of cytosolically exposed prion protein leads to spongiform neurodegeneration and also lack of which results in reduced embryonic viability due to mispatterning of the left–right (LR) axis during development. Here we demonstrate an interaction between the cytoskeletal protein α-tubulin and MGRN1. In cultured cell systems, loss of the ubiquitin E3 ligase activity of MGRN1 results in spindle misorientation and decreased α-tubulin polymerization, an effect also seen in primary cells. α-Tubulin was post-translationally modified by MGRN1 via noncanonical K6-linked polyubiquitination. This was significant because expression of catalytically inactive MGRN1 and/or ubiquitin mutant capable of only monoubiquitination resulted in similar mitotic spindle misorientation. The modulatory effect of MGRN1 was specific for α-tubulin and similar changes could not be detected in β- or γ-tubulin. However, catalytic inactivation of MGRN1 did not abrogate monoubiquitination of α-tubulin, thus unraveling a unique dual mode of ubiquitination by an unknown E3 ligase and MGRN1. MGRN1-mediated α-tubulin modification, and hence its stability, may highlight a key event in the LR patterning during embryogenesis.
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- D Srivastava
- Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
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- Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
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Asante EA, Linehan JM, Smidak M, Tomlinson A, Grimshaw A, Jeelani A, Jakubcova T, Hamdan S, Powell C, Brandner S, Wadsworth JDF, Collinge J. Inherited prion disease A117V is not simply a proteinopathy but produces prions transmissible to transgenic mice expressing homologous prion protein. PLoS Pathog 2013; 9:e1003643. [PMID: 24086135 PMCID: PMC3784465 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Accepted: 08/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Prions are infectious agents causing fatal neurodegenerative diseases of humans and animals. In humans, these have sporadic, acquired and inherited aetiologies. The inherited prion diseases are caused by one of over 30 coding mutations in the human prion protein (PrP) gene (PRNP) and many of these generate infectious prions as evidenced by their experimental transmissibility by inoculation to laboratory animals. However, some, and in particular an extensively studied type of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) caused by a PRNP A117V mutation, are thought not to generate infectious prions and instead constitute prion proteinopathies with a quite distinct pathogenetic mechanism. Multiple attempts to transmit A117V GSS have been unsuccessful and typical protease-resistant PrP (PrP(Sc)), pathognomonic of prion disease, is not detected in brain. Pathogenesis is instead attributed to production of an aberrant topological form of PrP, C-terminal transmembrane PrP ((Ctm)PrP). Barriers to transmission of prion strains from one species to another appear to relate to structural compatibility of PrP in host and inoculum and we have therefore produced transgenic mice expressing human 117V PrP. We found that brain tissue from GSS A117V patients did transmit disease to these mice and both the neuropathological features of prion disease and presence of PrP(Sc) was demonstrated in the brains of recipient transgenic mice. This PrP(Sc) rapidly degraded during laboratory analysis, suggesting that the difficulty in its detection in patients with GSS A117V could relate to post-mortem proteolysis. We conclude that GSS A117V is indeed a prion disease although the relative contributions of (Ctm)PrP and prion propagation in neurodegeneration and their pathogenetic interaction remains to be established.
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- Emmanuel A. Asante
- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit and Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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