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The Journal of Neuroscience, May 25, 2005, 25(21):5207-5216; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0653-05.2005

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Neurobiology of Disease
Uptake and Neuritic Transport of Scrapie Prion Protein Coincident with Infection of Neuronal Cells

Ana Cristina Magalhães,^1,4 Gerald S. Baron,¹ Kil Sun Lee,¹ Olivia Steele-Mortimer,² David Dorward,³ Marco A. M. Prado,⁴ and Byron Caughey¹

¹Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, ²Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, and ³Microscopy Facility, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana 59840, and ⁴Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901 Brazil

Invasion of the nervous system and neuronal spread of infection are critical, but poorly understood, steps in the pathogenesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases. To characterize pathways for the uptake and intraneuronal trafficking of infectious, protease-resistant prion protein (PrP-res), fluorescent-labeled PrP-res was used to infect a neuronally derived murine cell line (SN56) and adult hamster cortical neurons in primary culture. Concurrent with the establishment of persistent scrapie infection, SN56 cells internalized PrP-res aggregates into vesicles positive for markers for late endosomes and/or lysosomes but not synaptic, early endocytic, or raft-derived vesicles. Internalized PrP-res was then transported along neurites to points of contact with other cells. Similar trafficking was observed with dextran, Alzheimer's A1-42 fibrils and noninfectious recombinant PrP fibrils, suggesting that PrP-res is internalized by a relatively nonspecific pinocytosis or transcytosis mechanism. Hamster cortical neurons were also capable of internalizing and disseminating exogenous PrP-res. Similar trafficking of exogenous PrP-res by cortical neurons cultured from the brains of PrP knock-out mice showed that uptake and neuritic transport did not require the presence of endogenous cellular PrP. These experiments visualize and characterize the initial steps associated with prion infection and transport within neuronal cells.

Key words: prion; trafficking; transport; neurites; endosomes; lysosomes

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Received Feb 17, 2005; revised April 8, 2005; accepted April 10, 2005.

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