Mazza Maria, Guglielmetti Chiara, Ingravalle Francesco, Brusadore Sonia, Langeveld Jan P M, Ekateriniadou Loukia V, Andréoletti Olivier, Casalone Cristina, Acutis Pier Luigi
Italian Reference Centre for TSEs, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta, Turin, Italy.
Biostatistic, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Unit, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta, Turin, Italy.
J Gen Virol. 2017 Jul;98(7):1963-1967. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000843. Epub 2017 Jul 13.
The presence of lysine (K) at codon 222 has been associated with resistance to classical scrapie in goats, but few scrapie cases have been identified in 222Q/K animals. To investigate the contribution of the 222K variant to PrPres formation in natural and experimental Q/K scrapie cases, we applied an immunoblotting method based on the use of two different monoclonal antibodies, F99/97.6.1 and SAF84, chosen for their different affinities to 222K and 222Q PrP variants. Our finding that PrPres seems to be formed nearly totally by the 222Q variant provides evidence that the 222K PrP variant confers resistance to conversion to PrPres formation and reinforces the view that this mutation has a protective role against classical scrapie in goats.
密码子222处赖氨酸(K)的存在与山羊对经典痒病的抗性有关,但在222Q/K动物中仅发现了少数痒病病例。为了研究222K变体在自然和实验性Q/K痒病病例中对PrPres形成的作用,我们应用了一种免疫印迹方法,该方法基于使用两种不同的单克隆抗体F99/97.6.1和SAF84,选择这两种抗体是因为它们对222K和222Q PrP变体具有不同的亲和力。我们的研究结果表明,PrPres似乎几乎完全由222Q变体形成,这一发现证明222K PrP变体赋予了对转化为PrPres形成的抗性,并强化了这种突变对山羊经典痒病具有保护作用的观点。