Sheep prions with molecular properties intermediate between classical scrapie, BSE and CH1641-scrapie

Langeveld, Jan P. M., Jacobs, Jorg G., Erkens, Jo H. F., Baron, Thierry, Andréoletti, Olivier, Yokoyama, Takahashi, van Keulen, Lucien J. M., van Zijderveld, Fred G., Davidse, Aart, Hope, Jim, Tang, Yue and Bossers, Alex (2014) Sheep prions with molecular properties intermediate between classical scrapie, BSE and CH1641-scrapie. Prion, 8 (4). pp. 296-305. ISSN 1933-6896

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Abstract

Efforts to differentiate bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from scrapie in prion infected sheep have resulted in effective methods to decide about the absence of BSE. In rare instances uncertainties remain due to assumptions that BSE, classical scrapie and CH1641 - a rare scrapie variant-could occur as mixtures. In field samples including those from fallen stock, triplex Western blotting analyses of variations in the molecular properties of the proteinase K resistant part of the disease-associated form of prion protein (PrPres) represents a powerful tool for quick discrimination purposes. In this study we examined 7 deviant ovine field cases of scrapie for some typical molecular aspects of PrPres found in CH1641-scrapie, classical scrapie and BSE. One case was most close to scrapie with respect to molecular mass of its non-glycosylated fraction and N-terminally located 12B2-epitope content. Two cases were unlike classical scrapie but too weak to differentiate between BSE or CH1641. The other 4 cases appeared intermediate between scrapie and CH1641 with a reduced molecular mass and 12B2-epitope content, together with the characteristic presence of a second PrPres population. The existence of these 2 PrPres populations was further confirmed through deglycosylation by PNGaseF. The findings indicate that discriminatory diagnosis between classical scrapie, CH1641 and BSE can remain inconclusive with current biochemical methods. Whether such intermediate cases represent mixtures of TSE strains should be further investigated e.g. in bioassays with rodent lines that are varying in their susceptibility or other techniques suitable for strain typing.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ch1641,prion,sheep,typing,western blot,biochemistry,cellular and molecular neuroscience,cell biology,infectious diseases,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300/1303
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Dec 2025 12:30
Last Modified:	09 Dec 2025 10:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/101250
DOI:	10.4161/19336896.2014.983396

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