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Immunoaffinity purification and neutralization of scrapie prions.
The scrapie agent causes a degenerative neurologic disease and can be transmitted to laboratory rodents. The unusual properties of the scrapie agent prompted introduction of the term prion in order to distinguish this class of novel pathogens from viruses and viroids. The scrapie prion protein (PrPSc) is the only component of the infectious scrapie prion identified, to date. Although many biochemical and genetic lines of evidence argue that PrPSc is a major component of the infectious particle, the most convincing data is derived from immunoaffinity purification studies. Limited proteinase K digestion of hamster brain PrPSc produced PrP 27-30. After dispersion of brain microsomes isolated from scrapie-infected hamsters into detergent-lipid-protein complexes (DLPC), copurification of PrPSc and scrapie infectivity was obtained with PrP 27-30 monoclonal antibody affinity columns. PrPSc was enriched approximately 5700-fold with respect to total brain protein while scrapie prion infectivity was enriched approximately -4000-fold. The ratio of prion titer to PrPSc remained constant throughout purification. Heterologous monoclonal antibody columns failed to bind either PrpSc or scrapie infectivity. Polyclonal rabbit PrP antiserum raised against sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE)-purified PrP 27-30 reduced scrapie infectivity dispersed into DLPC by a factor of 100. Our findings represent the first direct immunologic and chromatographic demonstrations of a relationship between PrPSc and prion infectivity as well as providing additional support for the contention that PrPSc is a major component of the infectious scrapie particle. While these results and those of other studies establish that PrPSc is a component of the infectious prion, the possibility of a second component such as a small nucleic acid which might be required for infection must still be considered. PrPSc is encoded by a single copy cellular gene and not by a hypothetical-nucleic acid within purified prion preparations. Normal, uninfected cells express the cellular prion protein (PrPC). Both PrPSc and PrPC appear to be translated from the same 2.1-kb mRNA. The N-terminal amino acid sequences of hamster PrPC and PrPSc are identical; both correspond to that predicted by the translated prion protein (PrP) gene sequence. While the chemical difference between PrPC and PrPSc remains unknown, the organization of the PrP gene argues that it results from a posttranslational event. The mouse PrP gene is on chromosome 2 and is linked to a gene controlling the scrapie incubation time (Prn-i).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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