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  • 标题:Generation of a new infectious recombinant prion: a model to understand Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome
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  • 作者:Saioa R. Elezgarai ; Natalia Fernández-Borges ; Hasier Eraña
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2017
  • 卷号:7
  • 期号:1
  • DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-09489-3
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:Human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that include Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), and fatal familial insomnia. GSS is a genetically determined TSE caused by a range of mutations within the prion protein (PrP) gene. Several animal models, based on the expression of PrPs carrying mutations analogous to human heritable prion diseases, support that mutations might predispose PrP to spontaneously misfold. An adapted Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification methodology based on the use of human recombinant PrP (recPMCA) generated different self-propagating misfolded proteins spontaneously. These were characterized biochemically and structurally, and the one partially sharing some of the GSS PrP(Sc) molecular features was inoculated into different animal models showing high infectivity. This constitutes an infectious recombinant prion which could be an invaluable model for understanding GSS. Moreover, this study proves the possibility to generate recombinant versions of other human prion diseases that could provide a further understanding on the molecular features of these devastating disorders.
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