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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
卷 93, 期 -, 页码 2749-2756出版社
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.039008-0
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- Department of Health
- Policy Research Programme in the Department of Health, UK [007/0162]
- BBSRC [BBS/E/A/00001658, BBS/E/D/20251967, BBS/E/D/05241340, BBS/E/D/05241338, BBS/E/D/20251968] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/D/20251967, BBS/E/D/05241340, BBS/E/D/05241338, BBS/E/D/20251968, BBS/E/A/00001658] Funding Source: researchfish
The susceptibility of sheep to prion infection is linked to variation in the PRNP gene, which encodes the prion protein. Common polymorphisms occur at codons 136, 154 and 171. Sheep which are homozygous for the A(136)R(154)Q(171) allele are the most susceptible to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The effect of other polymorphisms on BSE susceptibility is unknown. We orally infected ARO/ARO Cheviot sheep with equal amounts of BSE brain homogenate and a range of incubation periods was observed. When we segregated sheep according to the amino acid (L or F) encoded at codon 141 of the PRNP gene, the shortest incubation period was observed in LL141 sheep, whilst incubation periods in FF141 and LF141 sheep were significantly longer. No statistically significant differences existed in the expression of total prion protein or the disease-associated isoform in BSE-infected sheep within each genotype subgroup. This suggested that the amino acid encoded at codon 141 probably affects incubation times through direct effects on protein misfolding rates.
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