Transgenic Rabbits Expressing Ovine PrP Are Susceptible to Scrapie

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Prions are infectious pathogens causing irremediably fatal neurodegenerative diseases in human and in farmed or wild animals. They are formed from abnormally folded assemblies (PrPSc) of the host-encoded prion protein (PrPC). Different PrPSc conformational variants or ‘strains’ can propagate in the same host, giving distinct biological phenotypes. Like other pathogens, prions can transmit from one species to another, representing a zoonotic risk. A barrier, commonly referred to as “species barrier”, limits prion cross-species transmission. This barrier is supposed to reflect the steric incompatibility between invading prion PrPSc and PrPC of the infected host. Rabbit is one of the species that exhibit a pronounced resistance to prions. To gain insights on the molecular determinants of the relative resistance of this species to prions, we generated transgenic rabbits expressing sheep PrPC and assessed their experimental susceptibility to sheep scrapie prions, as routinely done with transgenic mouse models of prion disease. All transgenic rabbits developed a typical prion disease within 200 days, whereas wild type rabbits remained healthy more than 700 days after inoculation. These data indicate that the low susceptibility of rabbits to prion infection is not enciphered within their non-PrP genetic background.

Vyšlo v časopise: Transgenic Rabbits Expressing Ovine PrP Are Susceptible to Scrapie. PLoS Pathog 11(8): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005077
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