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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prion infection of human cerebral organoids.


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.

SUBMITTER: Groveman BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6567389 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prion infection of human cerebral organoids.

Groveman Bradley R BR   Foliaki Simote T ST   Orru Christina D CD   Zanusso Gianluigi G   Carroll James A JA   Race Brent B   Haigh Cathryn L CL  

Acta neuropathologica communications 20190614 1


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 h  ...[more]

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