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Journal of Virology, April 2000, p. 3135-3140, Vol. 74, No. 7
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Amphotericin B Inhibits the Generation of the Scrapie Isoform of the Prion Protein in Infected Cultures

Alain Mangé, Noriyuki Nishida, Ollivier Milhavet, Hilary E. M. McMahon, Danielle Casanova, and Sylvain Lehmann*

Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS U.P.R. 1142, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Received 12 November 1999/Accepted 27 December 1999

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies form a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that have the unique property of being infectious, sporadic, or genetic in origin. Although some doubts about the nature of the responsible agent of these diseases remain, it is clear that a protein called PrPSc plays a central role. PrPSc is a conformational variant of PrPC, the normal host protein. Polyene antibiotics such as amphotericin B have been shown to delay the accumulation of PrPSc and to increase the incubation time of the disease after experimental transmission in laboratory animals. Unlike for Congo red and sulfated polyanions, no effect of amphotericin B has been observed in infected cultures. We show here for the first time that amphotericin B can inhibit PrPSc generation in scrapie-infected GT1-7 and N2a cells. Its activity seems to be related to a modification of the properties of detergent-resistant microdomains. These results provide new insights into the mechanism of action of amphotericin B and confirm the usefulness of infected cultures in the therapeutic research of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: CNRS, 141, rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. Phone: 33 (0)4 99 61 99 31. Fax: 33 (0)4 99 61 99 01. E-mail: Sylvain.Lehmann{at}igh.cnrs.fr.

Journal of Virology, April 2000, p. 3135-3140, Vol. 74, No. 7
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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