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Different transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)-associated forms of prion protein (e.g. PrP Sc ) can vary markedly in ultrastructure and biochemical characteristics, but each is propagated in the host. PrP Sc  propagation involves conversion from its normal isoform, PrP C , by a seeded or templated polymerization mechanism. Such a mechanism is also the basis of the RT-QuIC and eQuIC prion assays which use recombinant PrP (rPrP Sen ) as a substrate. These ultrasensitive detection assays have been developed for TSE prions of several host species and sample tissues, but not for murine models which are central to TSE pathogenesis research. Here we have adapted RT-QuIC and eQuIC to various murine prions and evaluated how seeding activity depends on glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchoring and the abundance of amyloid plaques and protease-resistant PrP Sc  (PrP Res ). Scrapie brain dilutions up to 10 −8  and 10 −13  were detected by RT-QuIC and eQuIC, respectively. Comparisons of scrapie-affected wild-type mice and transgenic mice expressing GPI anchorless PrP showed that, although similar concentrations of seeding activity accumulated in brain, the heavily amyloid-laden anchorless mouse tissue seeded more rapid reactions. Next we compared seeding activities in the brains of mice with similar infectivity titers, but widely divergent PrP Res  levels. For this purpose we compared the 263K and 139A scrapie strains in transgenic mice expressing P101L PrP C . Although the brains of 263K-affected mice had little immunoblot-detectable PrP Res , RT-QuIC indicated that seeding activity was comparable to that associated with a high-PrP Res  strain, 139A. Thus, in this comparison, RT-QuIC seeding activity correlated more closely with infectivity than with PrP Res  levels. We also found that eQuIC, which incorporates a PrP Sc  immunoprecipitation step, detected seeding activity in plasma from wild-type and anchorless PrP transgenic mice inoculated with 22L, 79A and/or RML scrapie strains. Overall, we conclude that these new mouse-adapted prion seeding assays detect diverse types of PrP Sc .

Prion Seeding Activities of Mouse Scrapie Strains with Divergent PrPSc Protease Sensitivities and Amyloid Plaque Content Using RT-QuIC and eQuIC