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ArticleScientific reports2017

Prion strains depend on different endocytic routes for productive infection.

Andrea Fehlinger, Hanna Wolf, André Hossinger, Yvonne Duernberger, Catharina Pleschka, Katrin Riemschoss, Shu Liu, Romina Bester, Lydia Paulsen, Suzette A Priola and 3 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A scalable, dividing cell model for the robust propagation and quantification of human sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. New Therapeutic Modalities in Prion Diseases.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2025
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  8. What is the role of lipids in prion conversion and disease?Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022
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  11. A New Take on Prion Protein Dynamics in Cellular Trafficking.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  16. On the existence of endocytosis driven by membrane phase separations.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes · 2020
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  17. The role of prion strain diversity in the development of successful therapeutic treatments.Progress in molecular biology and translational science · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Andrea FehlingerDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
Hanna WolfDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
André HossingerDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
Yvonne DuernbergerDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
Catharina PleschkaDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
Katrin RiemschossDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
Shu LiuDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
Romina BesterInstitut für Virologie, Technische Universität München, Trogerstr. 30, 81675, München, Germany.
Lydia PaulsenDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
Suzette A PriolaLaboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 903 South 4th Street, Hamilton, MT, 59840, USA.
Martin H GroschupFriedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17493, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
Hermann M SchätzlDept. of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4Z6, Canada.
Ina M VorbergDeutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V., Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 27, 53127, Bonn, Germany. ina.vorberg@dzne.de.ORCID 0000-0003-0583-4015
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DEFriedrich-Loeffler-Institut · DENational Institutes of Health · USTechnical University of Munich · DEUniversity of Bonn · DEUniversity of Calgary · CA

Funding

Molecular Genetics Of Scrapie PathogenesisZIAAI000752 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI PRIOLA, SUZETTE ALISE · 2009 to 2025
$15.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prions are unconventional agents composed of misfolded prion protein that cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in mammals. Prion strains induce specific neuropathological changes in selected brain areas. The mechanism of strain-specific cell tropism is unknown. We hypothesised that prion strains rely on different endocytic routes to invade and replicate within their target cells. Using prion permissive cells, we determined how impairment of endocytosis affects productive infection by prion strains 22L and RML. We demonstrate that early and late stages of prion infection are differentially sensitive to perturbation of clathrin- and caveolin-mediated endocytosis. Manipulation of canonical endocytic pathways only slightly influenced prion uptake. However, blocking the same routes had drastic strain-specific consequences on the establishment of infection. Our data argue that prion strains use different endocytic pathways for infection and suggest that cell type-dependent differences in prion uptake could contribute to host cell tropism.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological TransportCaveolin 1Cell LineCell MembraneEndocytosisMicePrion DiseasesPrPSc ProteinsCav1 protein, mouseCaveolin 1PrPSc Proteins

Identifiers

PMID28761068
PMCPMC5537368
OpenAlexW2738835531

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