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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 15, 2005, 25(24):5824-5832; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1192-05.2005

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Neurobiology of Disease
Visualization of Prion Infection in Transgenic Mice Expressing Green Fluorescent Protein-Tagged Prion Protein

Sami J. Barmada and David A. Harris

Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110

Tg(PrP-EGFP) mice express an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-tagged version of the prion protein (PrP) that behaves like endogenous PrP in terms of its posttranslational processing, anatomical localization, and functional activity. In this study, we describe experiments in which Tg(PrP-EGFP) mice were inoculated intracerebrally with scrapie prions. Although PrP-EGFP was incapable of sustaining prion infection in Tg(PrP-EGFP)/Prn-p^0/0 mice, it acted as a dominant-negative inhibitor that bound to, and fluorescently marked, deposits of PrP^Sc generated from endogenous PrP in Tg(PrP-EGFP)/Prn-p^+/+ mice. Scrapie infection of these latter animals caused a progressive accumulation of fluorescent PrP-EGFP aggregates in neuropil, axons, and prominently in the Golgi apparatus of neurons. Our results provide an entirely new picture of PrP^Sc localization during the course of prion infection, and they identify for the first time intracellular sites of PrP^Sc formation that are not well visualized with conventional immunohistochemical techniques.

Key words: prion; scrapie; transgenic; green fluorescent protein; neurodegeneration; Golgi

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Received March 27, 2005; revised May 9, 2005; accepted May 10, 2005.

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