Journal Article

DZNE-2020-05983

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Substitutions of PrP N-terminal histidine residues modulate scrapie disease pathogenesis and incubation time in transgenic mice.

Eigenbrod, S. ; Frick, P. (Corresponding author)DZNE* ; Bertsch, U. ; Mitteregger-Kretzschmar, G. ; Mielke, J. ; Maringer, M. ; Piening, N. ; Hepp, A. ; Daude, N. ; Windl, O. ; Levin, J. ; Giese, A. ; Sakthivelu, V. ; Tatzelt, J. ; Kretzschmar, H. ; Westaway, D.

2017
PLOS San Francisco, California, US

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Abstract: Prion diseases have been linked to impaired copper homeostasis and copper induced-oxidative damage to the brain. Divalent metal ions, such as Cu2+ and Zn2+, bind to cellular prion protein (PrPC) at octapeptide repeat (OR) and non-OR sites within the N-terminal half of the protein but information on the impact of such binding on conversion to the misfolded isoform often derives from studies using either OR and non-OR peptides or bacterially-expressed recombinant PrP. Here we created new transgenic mouse lines expressing PrP with disrupted copper binding sites within all four histidine-containing OR's (sites 1-4, H60G, H68G, H76G, H84G, 'TetraH>G' allele) or at site 5 (composed of residues His-95 and His-110; 'H95G' allele) and monitored the formation of misfolded PrP in vivo. Novel transgenic mice expressing PrP(TetraH>G) at levels comparable to wild-type (wt) controls were susceptible to mouse-adapted scrapie strain RML but showed significantly prolonged incubation times. In contrast, amino acid replacement at residue 95 accelerated disease progression in corresponding PrP(H95G) mice. Neuropathological lesions in terminally ill transgenic mice were similar to scrapie-infected wt controls, but less severe. The pattern of PrPSc deposition, however, was not synaptic as seen in wt animals, but instead dense globular plaque-like accumulations of PrPSc in TgPrP(TetraH>G) mice and diffuse PrPSc deposition in (TgPrP(H95G) mice), were observed throughout all brain sections. We conclude that OR and site 5 histidine substitutions have divergent phenotypic impacts and that cis interactions between the OR region and the site 5 region modulate pathogenic outcomes by affecting the PrP globular domain.

Keyword(s): Animals (MeSH) ; Histidine: chemistry (MeSH) ; Mice (MeSH) ; Mice, Transgenic (MeSH) ; Prion Proteins: chemistry (MeSH) ; Scrapie: pathology (MeSH) ; Prion Proteins ; Histidine

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Molecular Neuropathology of Neurodegenerative Diseases (AG Neumann)

Research Program(s):

1. 344 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF3-344) (POF3-344)

Appears in the scientific report 2017

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