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Scrapie-infected transgenic mice expressing a laminin receptor decoy mutant reveal a prolonged incubation time associated with low levels of PrPres.
Journal of molecular biology - 15 May 2009
Pflanz Heike, Vana Karen, Mitteregger Gerda, Renner-Müller Ingrid, Pace Claudia, Küchenhoff Helmut, Kretzschmar Hans A, Wolf Eckhard, Weiss Stefan
Abstract excerpt
The 37-kDa/67-kDa laminin receptor (LRP/LR) was identified as a cell surface receptor for prion proteins. The laminin receptor mutant LRP102-295::FLAG interfered with PrP(Sc) propagation in murine neuronal cells presumably acting as a decoy in a transdominant negative fashion by trapping PrP molecules in the extracellular matrix. Here, we generated hemizygous transgenic mice expressing LRP102-295::FLAG in the...
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