<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Asante, Emmanuel A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Smidak, Michelle</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grimshaw, Andrew</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Houghton, Richard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tomlinson, Andrew</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jeelani, Asif</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jakubcova, Tatiana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hamdan, Shyma</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Richard-Londt, Angela</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Linehan, Jacqueline M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brandner, Sebastian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alpers, Michael</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Whitfield, Jerome</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mead, Simon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wadsworth, Jonathan D F</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Collinge, John</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A naturally occurring variant of the human prion protein completely prevents prion disease.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nature</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nature</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alleles</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amino Acid Substitution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Animals</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cattle</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Female</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Heterozygote</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Homozygote</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kuru</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mice</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mice, Transgenic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Papua New Guinea</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Polymorphism, Genetic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Prion Diseases</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Prions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PrPSc Proteins</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015 Jun 25</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061765</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">522</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">478-81</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Mammalian prions, transmissible agents causing lethal neurodegenerative diseases, are composed of assemblies of misfolded cellular prion protein (PrP). A novel PrP variant, G127V, was under positive evolutionary selection during the epidemic of kuru--an acquired prion disease epidemic of the Fore population in Papua New Guinea--and appeared to provide strong protection against disease in the heterozygous state. Here we have investigated the protective role of this variant and its interaction with the common, worldwide M129V PrP polymorphism. V127 was seen exclusively on a M129 PRNP allele. We demonstrate that transgenic mice expressing both variant and wild-type human PrP are completely resistant to both kuru and classical Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) prions (which are closely similar) but can be infected with variant CJD prions, a human prion strain resulting from exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions to which the Fore were not exposed. Notably, mice expressing only PrP V127 were completely resistant to all prion strains, demonstrating a different molecular mechanism to M129V, which provides its relative protection against classical CJD and kuru in the heterozygous state. Indeed, this single amino acid substitution (G→V) at a residue invariant in vertebrate evolution is as protective as deletion of the protein. Further study in transgenic mice expressing different ratios of variant and wild-type PrP indicates that not only is PrP V127 completely refractory to prion conversion but acts as a potent dose-dependent inhibitor of wild-type prion propagation.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7557</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14510.html</style></notes><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061765?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>