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ArticleViruses2014

Molecular modeling of prion transmission to humans.

Etienne Levavasseur, Nicolas Privat, Juan-Carlos Espinosa Martin, Steve Simoneau, Thierry Baron, Benoit Flan, Juan-Maria Torres, Stéphane Haïk

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Article in Viruses, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Etienne LevavasseurInserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, 75013 Paris, France. etienne.levavasseur@inserm.fr.
Nicolas PrivatInserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, 75013 Paris, France. nicolas.privat@inserm.fr.
Juan-Carlos Espinosa MartinCentro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, Carretera de Algete a El Casar, 28130 Madrid, Spain. espinosa.juan@inia.es.
Steve SimoneauLFB Biomédicaments, 91958 Les Ulis, France. simoneaus@lfb.fr.
Thierry BaronAgence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES), Unité Maladies neurodégénératives, 69394 Lyon, France. thierry.baron@anses.fr.
Benoit FlanLFB Biomédicaments, 91958 Les Ulis, France. flan@lfb.fr.
Juan-Maria TorresCentro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, Carretera de Algete a El Casar, 28130 Madrid, Spain. jmtorres@inia.es.
Stéphane HaïkInserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, 75013 Paris, France. stephane.haik@courriel.upmc.fr.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using different prion strains, such as the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease agent and the atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy agents, and using transgenic mice expressing human or bovine prion protein, we assessed the reliability of protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) to model interspecies and genetic barriers to prion transmission. We compared our PMCA results with in vivo transmission data characterized by attack rates, i.e., the percentage of inoculated mice that developed the disease. Using 19 seed/substrate combinations, we observed that a significant PMCA amplification was only obtained when the mouse line used as substrate is susceptible to the corresponding strain. Our results suggest that PMCA provides a useful tool to study genetic barriers to transmission and to study the zoonotic potential of emerging prion strains.

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Models, MolecularAnimalsBrainCattleCreutzfeldt-Jakob SyndromeEncephalopathy, Bovine SpongiformHumansMiceMice, TransgenicPrionsProtein FoldingReproducibility of ResultsSpecies SpecificityPrions

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PMID25279820
PMCPMC4213560

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