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- Title
Cryo-EM structure of anchorless RML prion reveals variations in shared motifs between distinct strains.
- Authors
Hoyt, Forrest; Standke, Heidi G.; Artikis, Efrosini; Schwartz, Cindi L.; Hansen, Bryan; Li, Kunpeng; Hughson, Andrew G.; Manca, Matteo; Thomas, Olivia R.; Raymond, Gregory J.; Race, Brent; Baron, Gerald S.; Caughey, Byron; Kraus, Allison
- Abstract
Little is known about the structural basis of prion strains. Here we provide a high (3.0 Å) resolution cryo-electron microscopy-based structure of infectious brain-derived fibrils of the mouse anchorless RML scrapie strain which, like the recently determined hamster 263K strain, has a parallel in-register β-sheet-based core. Several structural motifs are shared between these ex vivo prion strains, including an amino-proximal steric zipper and three β-arches. However, detailed comparisons reveal variations in these shared structural topologies and other features. Unlike 263K and wildtype RML prions, the anchorless RML prions lack glycophosphatidylinositol anchors and are severely deficient in N-linked glycans. Nonetheless, the similarity of our anchorless RML structure to one reported for wildtype RML prion fibrils in an accompanying paper indicates that these post-translational modifications do not substantially alter the amyloid core conformation. This work demonstrates both common and divergent structural features of prion strains at the near-atomic level. The authors report the near-atomic structure of the ex vivo aRML prion fibril. The comparison between this structure and the previously solved 263K prion fibril shows that both common and divergent features characterize these prion strains and their respective conformational replication templates.
- Subjects
PRIONS; POST-translational modification; X-ray crystallography; SCRAPIE; GLYCANS
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-30458-6