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ArticleBrain : a journal of neurology2019

Type I interferon protects neurons from prions in in vivo models.

Daisuke Ishibashi, Takujiro Homma, Takehiro Nakagaki, Takayuki Fuse, Kazunori Sano, Katsuya Satoh, Tsuyoshi Mori, Ryuichiro Atarashi, Noriyuki Nishida

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Article in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2019. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Daisuke IshibashiDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Takujiro HommaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.
Takehiro NakagakiDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Takayuki FuseDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Kazunori SanoDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Katsuya SatohDepartment of Locomotive Rehabilitation Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Tsuyoshi MoriDivision of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
Ryuichiro AtarashiDivision of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
Noriyuki NishidaDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
Nagasaki University · JPUniversity of Miyazaki · JPFukuoka University · JPYamagata University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infectious prions comprising abnormal prion protein, which is produced by structural conversion of normal prion protein, are responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Prions are infectious agents that do not possess a genome and the pathogenic protein was not thought to evoke any immune response. Although we previously reported that interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) was likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of prion diseases, suggesting the protective role of host innate immune responses mediated by IRF3 signalling, this remained to be clarified. Here, we investigated the reciprocal interactions of type I interferon evoked by IRF3 activation and prion infection and found that infecting prions cause the suppression of endogenous interferon expression. Conversely, treatment with recombinant interferons in an ex vivo model was able to inhibit prion infection. In addition, cells and mice deficient in type I interferon receptor (subunit interferon alpha/beta receptor 1), exhibited higher susceptibility to 22L-prion infection. Moreover, in in vivo and ex vivo prion-infected models, treatment with RO8191, a selective type I interferon receptor agonist, inhibited prion invasion and prolonged the survival period of infected mice. Taken together, these data indicated that the interferon signalling interferes with prion propagation and some interferon-stimulated genes might play protective roles in the brain. These findings may allow for the development of new strategies to combat fatal diseases.

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AnimalsBrainHumansImmunity, InnateInterferon Regulatory Factor-3Interferon Type IMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronsPrion DiseasesPrion ProteinsPrionsReceptor, Interferon alpha-betaSignal TransductionInterferon Regulatory Factor-3Interferon Type IIRF3 protein, humanPrion ProteinsPrionsReceptor, Interferon alpha-betainnate immune systemprion infectiontype I interferon (I-IFN)

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