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SUBMITTER: Browning S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3220511 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Browning Shawn S Baker Christopher A CA Smith Emery E Mahal Sukhvir P SP Herva Maria E ME Demczyk Cheryl A CA Li Jiali J Weissmann Charles C
The Journal of biological chemistry 20110919 47
Neuroblastoma-derived N2a-PK1 cells, fibroblastic LD9 cells, and CNS-derived CAD5 cells can be infected efficiently and persistently by various prion strains, as measured by the standard scrapie cell assay. Swainsonine, an inhibitor of Golgi α-mannosidase II that causes abnormal N-glycosylation, strongly inhibits infection of PK1 cells by RML, 79A and 22F, less so by 139A, and not at all by 22L prions, and it does not diminish propagation of any of these strains in LD9 or CAD5 cells. Misglycosyl ...[more]