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Molecular biology of prion protein-like protein: PrPLP/doppel Suehiro Sakaguchi 1 , Shigeru Katamine 1 1Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Nagasaki University Gladuate School of Biomedical Sci-ences Keyword: プリオン蛋白 , プリオン蛋白類似蛋白 , プリオン病 , プルキンエ細胞 , 神経変性 pp.18-28
Published Date 2003/2/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431100279
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 The prion protein-like protein, PrPLP/doppel, is a protein homologous to the C-terminal two-third of PrP with 23%identity in the primary structure. The highest expression of PrPLP/doppel was detectable in testes. The ablation of its gene resulted in infertility in male but not in female, indicating that PrPLP/doppel is important for the spermatogenesis. In the brains of mice, PrPLP/doppel is transiently expressed in the endothelial cells only at an early stage of life, but its physiological function in the cells has not been understood. Interestingly, the ectopic PrPLP/doppel expression in the Purkinje neurons of the mice deficient for PrP caused the cell degeneration. Molecular mechanisms of the PrPLP/doppel-induced neurodegeneration may account for some aspects of the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease. On the other hand, it is enigmatic to elucidate the relationship between PrPLP/doppel and prion diseases. No upregulation of PrPLP/doppel mRNA could be detected in the brains of mice intracerebrally inoculated by prions. The mice ectopically expressing PrPLP/doppel in the neurons showed neurological symptoms and died after the infection by prions with an identical time course to the mice without the ectopic expression of PrPLP/doppel.Moreover, no infectivity associated with PrPLP/doppel was generated in the mice. These findings indicated that PrPLP/doppel is unlikely to associate with prion diseases.


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