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Soluble A beta aggregates can inhibit prion propagation

Sarell, CJ; Quarterman, E; Yip, DC-M; Terry, C; Nicoll, AJ; Wadsworth, JDF; Farrow, MA; ... Collinge, J; + view all (2017) Soluble A beta aggregates can inhibit prion propagation. Open Biology , 7 (11) , Article 170158. 10.1098/rsob.170158. Green open access

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Abstract

Mammalian prions cause lethal neurodegenerative diseases such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) and consist of multi-chain assemblies of misfolded cellular prion protein (PrPC). Ligands that bind to PrPC can inhibit prion propagation and neurotoxicity. Extensive prior work established that certain soluble assemblies of the Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated amyloid β-protein (Aβ) can tightly bind to PrPC, and that this interaction may be relevant to their toxicity in AD. Here, we investigated whether such soluble Aβ assemblies might, conversely, have an inhibitory effect on prion propagation. Using cellular models of prion infection and propagation and distinct Aβ preparations, we found that the form of Aβ assemblies which most avidly bound to PrP in vitro also inhibited prion infection and propagation. By contrast, forms of Aβ which exhibit little or no binding to PrP were unable to attenuate prion propagation. These data suggest that soluble aggregates of Aβ can compete with prions for binding to PrPC and emphasize the bidirectional nature of the interplay between Aβ and PrPC in Alzheimer's and prion diseases. Such inhibitory effects of Aβ on prion propagation may contribute to the apparent fall-off in the incidence of sporadic CJD at advanced age where cerebral Aβ deposition is common.

Type: Article
Title: Soluble A beta aggregates can inhibit prion propagation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.170158
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.170158
Language: English
Additional information: © 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, amyloid beta-protein, Alzheimer's disease, automated scrapie cell assay, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, prion, CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB-DISEASE, AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN, IN-VIVO, REPLICATIVE INTERFACE, ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE, MEMORY IMPAIRMENT, OLIGOMERS, SCRAPIE, TOXICITY, PRPSC
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040497
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