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2015 ; 10
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): 1269-77
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Mechanism of scrapie prion precipitation with phosphotungstate anions
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Levine DJ
; Stöhr J
; Falese LE
; Ollesch J
; Wille H
; Prusiner SB
; Long JR
ACS Chem Biol
2015[May]; 10
(5
): 1269-77
PMID25695325
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The phosphotungstate anion (PTA) is widely used to facilitate the precipitation
of disease-causing prion protein (PrP(Sc)) from infected tissue for applications
in structural studies and diagnostic approaches. However, the mechanism of this
precipitation is not understood. In order to elucidate the nature of the PTA
interaction with PrP(Sc) under physiological conditions, solutions of PTA were
characterized by NMR spectroscopy at varying pH. At neutral pH, the parent
[PW12O40](3-) ion decomposes to give a lacunary [PW11O39](7-) (PW11) complex and
a single orthotungstate anion [WO4](2-) (WO4). To measure the efficacy of each
component of PTA, increasing concentrations of PW11, WO4, and mixtures thereof
were used to precipitate PrP(Sc) from brain homogenates of scrapie prion-infected
mice. The amount of PrP(Sc) isolated, quantified by ELISA and immunoblotting,
revealed that both PW11 and WO4 contribute to PrP(Sc) precipitation. Incubation
with sarkosyl, PTA, or individual components of PTA resulted in separation of
higher-density PrP aggregates from the neuronal lipid
monosialotetrahexosylganglioside (GM1), as observed by sucrose gradient
centrifugation. These experiments revealed that yield and purity of PrP(Sc) were
greater with polyoxometalates (POMs), which substantially supported the
separation of lipids from PrP(Sc) in the samples. Interaction of POMs and
sarkosyl with brain homogenates promoted the formation of fibrillar PrP(Sc)
aggregates prior to centrifugation, likely through the separation of lipids like
GM1 from PrP(Sc). We propose that this separation of lipids from PrP is a major
factor governing the facile precipitation of PrP(Sc) by PTA from tissue and might
be optimized further for the detection of prions.