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Abstract

Scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases affecting domestic and exotic ruminants. In previous immunohistochemical studies, we have shown that different sheep TSE sources may be distinguished by both the proportion of disease-specific prion protein (PrP) accumulation relative to different cell types in the brain (the ‘PrP profile’) and by different labelling patterns for PrP peptide sequences within phagocytic cells. In the present study, we have further characterized the intracellular accumulation patterns of PrP in the lymphoreticular system (LRS) and in the brain of sheep clinically affected with scrapie or BSE. BSE-infected PrP sheep of different breeds were compared with scrapie-infected sheep of different PrP genotypes. Cases of BSE infection could be distinguished from scrapie cases by a marked reduction in labelling of PrP containing the 84–105 amino acid residues in phagocytic cells of the LRS and in neurones and glia of the brain. These results therefore indicate that TSE agent-dependent processing of PrP in specific cell types within the brain and LRS can be used to distinguish between BSE in PrP sheep and scrapie in sheep of several PrP genotypes. Three different N-terminal peptide antibody labelling patterns were recognized for different cell types in different tissues of BSE-infected sheep, suggesting that different truncated forms of PrP are formed following infections with this agent strain. These variations in the cleavage sites of BSE PrP may be due to cell-specific variation in endosomal–lysosomal digestion or to cell- and tissue-specific differences in BSE PrP conformation.

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