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The Structural Architecture of an Infectious Mammalian Prion Using Electron Cryomicroscopy #MMPMID27606840
Vázquez-Fernández E; Vos MR; Afanasyev P; Cebey L; Sevillano AM; Vidal E; Rosa I; Renault L; Ramos A; Peters PJ; Fernández JJ; van Heel M; Young HS; Requena JR; Wille H
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The structure of the infectious prion protein (PrPSc), which is responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has escaped all attempts at elucidation due to its insolubility and propensity to aggregate. PrPSc replicates by converting the non-infectious, cellular prion protein (PrPC) into the misfolded, infectious conformer through an unknown mechanism. PrPSc and its N-terminally truncated variant, PrP 27?30, aggregate into amorphous aggregates, 2D crystals, and amyloid fibrils. The structure of these infectious conformers is essential to understanding prion replication and the development of structure-based therapeutic interventions. Here we used the repetitive organization inherent to GPI-anchorless PrP 27?30 amyloid fibrils to analyze their structure via electron cryomicroscopy. Fourier-transform analyses of averaged fibril segments indicate a repeating unit of 19.1 Ĺ. 3D reconstructions of these fibrils revealed two distinct protofilaments, and, together with a molecular volume of 18,990 Ĺ3, predicted the height of each PrP 27?30 molecule as ~17.7 Ĺ. Together, the data indicate a four-rung ?-solenoid structure as a key feature for the architecture of infectious mammalian prions. Furthermore, they allow to formulate a molecular mechanism for the replication of prions. Knowledge of the prion structure will provide important insights into the self-propagation mechanisms of protein misfolding.