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1 Department of Bacteriology
and2 Department of Pathology, Scientific Data Center for the Atomic Bomb Disaster, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852, Japan
The protease-resistant isoform of prion protein (PrP) has been implicated in the pathogenesis and transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), scrapie and other related diseases, but the relationship between the infectious agent and PrP awaits elucidation. In the present study, we have examined levels of infectivity together with accumulation of the protease-resistant form of PrP (PrPCJD) in various tissues of CJD agent-inoculated mice. Accumulation of PrPCJD occurred only in tissues, including brain, salivary gland and spleen, in which infectivity was readily detectable throughout the course of the experiment. The brain showed the highest levels of both infectivity and PrPCJD accumulation, with well correlated kinetics. On the other hand, the high titres of infectivity detected in salivary gland and spleen early after inoculation of the agent were obviously distinguishable from PrPCJD. Furthermore, in the salivary gland, the kinetics of infectivity and the accumulation of PrPCJD reversed; infectivity declined as PrPCJD accumulated in the tissue. Our findings indicate that PrPCJD accumulation is associated with replication of the agent; however, PrPCJD is unlikely to be the agent itself.
Received 1 April 1993;
accepted 9 June 1993.
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