期刊
JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
卷 213, 期 1, 页码 21-26出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/path.2204
关键词
protein misfolding cyclic amplification; vCJD; brain; platelets; PRNP codon 129 polymorphism; conformation-dependent immunoassay
资金
- Medical Research Council [G0900580, G0600953, G9721848] Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [G0600953, G9721848] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G9721848, G0600953] Funding Source: UKRI
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) poses a serious risk of secondary transmission and the need to detect infectivity in asymptomatic individuals is therefore of major importance. Following infection, it is assumed that minute amounts of disease-associated prion protein (PrPSc) replicate by conversion of the host cellular prion protein (PrPC). Therefore, methods of rapidly reproducing this conversion process in vitro would be valuable tools in the development of such tests. We show that one such technique, protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA), can amplify vCJD PrPSc from human brain tissue, and that the degree of amplification is dependent upon the substrate PRNP codon 129 polymorphism. Both human platelets and transgenic mouse brain are shown to be suitable alternative substrate sources, and amplified PrPsc can be detected using a conformation-dependent immunoassay (CDI), allowing the detection of putative proteinase K sensitive forms of PrPSc. Copyright (c) 2007 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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