Breaking an absolute species barrier: Transgenic mice expressing the mink PrP gene are susceptible to transmissible mink encephalopathy
2005 | journal article. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Breaking an absolute species barrier: Transgenic mice expressing the mink PrP gene are susceptible to transmissible mink encephalopathy
Windl, O.; Buchholz, M.; Neubauer, A.; Schulz-Schaeffer, W. J.; Groschup, M.; Walter, S. & Arendt, S. et al. (2005)
Journal of Virology, 79(23) pp. 14971-14975. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.79.23.14971-14975.2005
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- Windl, Otto; Buchholz, M.; Neubauer, A.; Schulz-Schaeffer, Walter J.; Groschup, M.; Walter, S.; Arendt, S.; Neumann, M.; Voss, A. K.; Kretzschmar, Hans A.
- Abstract
- Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) is a rare disease of the North American mink, which has never been successfully transmitted to laboratory mice. We generated transgenic mice expressing the mink prion protein (PrP) and inoculated them with TME or the mouse-adapted scrapie strain 79A. TME infected mink PrP-transgenic mice on a murine PrP knockout background. The absolute species barrier between the infectious agent of TME and mice was therefore broken. Following TME and 79A infection of mice carrying both mink and murine PrPC, only proteinase-resistant PrP homologous to the incoming agent was detectable. The presence of the murine PrPC prolonged the incubation time of TME substantially.
- Issue Date
- 2005
- Status
- published
- Publisher
- Amer Soc Microbiology
- Journal
- Journal of Virology
- ISSN
- 0022-538X