OMIA:000944-9796 : Spongiform encephalopathy, susceptibility/resistance to in Equus caballus |
In other species: domestic cat , taurine cattle , goat , pig , sheep , American mink , golden hamster , blue antelope , white-tufted-ear marmoset , eland , domestic ferret , greater kudu , Arabian oryx , mouflon , puma , Eastern wapiti , cheetah , chicken , crab-eating macaque , Rhesus monkey , macaques , black-tailed deer , rabbit , dog , water buffalo , Manchurian Wapiti , deer , domestic guinea pig , Iberian red deer , Western roe deer , fallow deer , Spanish ibex , Pyrenean chamois , white-tailed deer , chital , American bison , Eurasian elk , nyala , gemsbok , scimitar-horned oryx , reindeer , Arabian camel , red deer , Mallard , sika deer , domestic yak , Ring-necked pheasant , raccoon dog , Bank vole , Japanese quail , bighorn sheep
Categories: Nervous system phene
Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s)s (MIM numbers): 176640 (gene) , 245300 (trait)
Links to MONDO diseases:
Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown
Considered a defect: unknown
Cross-species summary: Spongiform encephalopathies are a class of fatal neurological diseases. Clinical signs are characteristic of a progressive degeneration of the central nervous system; they include pruritis, abnormalities of gait and recumbency. Death is inevitable. On post-mortem, brain histopathology shows a characteristic spongy appearance. The infectious agent is a modified form of a protein encoded by a gene in the host. The name given to this infectious particle is prion. The host gene is called the prion protein (PrP) gene, which is a normal part of the genome of mammals and chickens. Its polypeptide product, called cellular PrP(superscript C), is a naturally-occurring protein attached to the outer surface of neurones and some other cells. PrP(superscript C) appears to play a role in maintaining the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum, which are essential for balance and muscular function. The infectious agent, called scrapie PrP(superscript Sc), is a modifed form of PrP(superscript C), where the modifications involve glycosylation and the creation of intra-strand di-sulphide bonds. It is important to realise that these modifications involve no change in amino acid sequence. When PrP(superscript Sc) molecules enter a previously uninfected host, they convert the naturally occurring PrP(superscript C) molecules, produced by the host gene, into infectious PrP(superscript Sc) particles, which ultimately cause clinical signs in that animal, and which can spread to other animals, both horizontally (by infection) and vertically (by maternal transmission). In ruminants the disease has been called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, scrapie in sheep and goats and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids.
Cite this entry
Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2021). OMIA:000944-9796: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70
References
Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.
2021 | Won, S.Y., Kim, Y.C., Do, K., Jeong, B.H. : |
The first report of genetic polymorphisms of the equine SPRN gene in outbred horses, Jeju and Halla horses. Animals (Basel) 11:, 2021. Pubmed reference: 34573540 . DOI: 10.3390/ani11092574. | |
2020 | Kim, Y.C., Won, S.Y., Do, K., Jeong, B.H. : |
Identification of the novel polymorphisms and potential genetic features of the prion protein gene (PRNP) in horses, a prion disease-resistant animal. Sci Rep 10:8926, 2020. Pubmed reference: 32488112 . DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65731-5. | |
Myers, R., Cembran, A., Fernandez-Funez, P. : | |
Insight from animals resistant to prion diseases: Deciphering the genotype - morphotype - phenotype code for the prion protein. Front Cell Neurosci 14:254, 2020. Pubmed reference: 33013324 . DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2020.00254. | |
Won, S.Y., Kim, Y.C., Do, K., Jeong, B.H. : | |
Absence of strong genetic linkage disequilibrium between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the prion protein gene (PRNP) and the prion-like protein gene (PRND) in the horse, a prion-resistant species. Genes (Basel) 11:, 2020. Pubmed reference: 32392732 . DOI: 10.3390/genes11050518. | |
2019 | Won, S.Y., Kim, Y.C., Kim, S.K., Jeong, B.H. : |
The first report of genetic and structural diversities in the SPRN gene in the horse, an animal resistant to prion disease. Genes (Basel) 11:39, 2019. Pubmed reference: 31905681 . DOI: 10.3390/genes11010039. | |
2018 | Kim, Y.C., Jeong, B.H. : |
The first report of polymorphisms and genetic characteristics of the prion protein gene (PRNP) in horses. Prion :, 2018. Pubmed reference: 30165784 . DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2018.1513316. | |
Sanchez-Garcia, J., Fernandez-Funez, P. : | |
D159 and S167 are protective residues in the prion protein from dog and horse, two prion-resistant animals. Neurobiol Dis 119:1-12, 2018. Pubmed reference: 30010001 . DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2018.07.011. |
Edit History
- Created by Frank Nicholas on 20 Sep 2019
- Changed by Frank Nicholas on 15 May 2020
- Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 20 Apr 2021
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- Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 25 Aug 2021