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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prion infection of human cerebral organoids | Acta Neuropathologica Communications | Full Text

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prion infection of human cerebral organoids | Acta Neuropathologica Communications | Full Text



Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prion infection of human cerebral organoids

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Acta Neuropathologica Communications20197:12
  • Received: 29 March 2019
  • Accepted: 16 May 2019
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Abstract

For the transmissible, neurogenerative family of prion diseases, few human models of infection exist and none represent structured neuronal tissue. Human cerebral organoids are self-organizing, three-dimensional brain tissues that can be grown from induced pluripotent stem cells. Organoids can model aspects of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease and Down’s Syndrome, reproducing tau hyperphosphorylation and amyloid plaque pathology. To determine whether organoids could be used to reproduce human prion infection and pathogenesis, we inoculated organoids with two sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease prion subtypes. Organoids showed uptake, followed by clearance, of the infectious inoculum. Subsequent re-emergence of prion self-seeding activity indicated de novo propagation. Organoid health assays, prion titer, prion protein electrophoretic mobility and immunohistochemistry demonstrated inoculum-specific differences. Our study shows, for the first time, that cerebral organoids can model aspects of human prion disease and thus offer a powerful system for investigating different human prion subtype pathologies and testing putative therapeutics.

Keywords

  • Prion
  • CJD
  • Human cerebral organoid
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells
  • RT-QuIC

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