OMIA:000944-9823 : Spongiform encephalopathy, susceptibility/resistance to in Sus scrofa (pig)

In other species: Mallard , chicken , Ring-necked pheasant , white-tufted-ear marmoset , macaques , crab-eating macaque , Rhesus monkey , dog , domestic ferret , domestic cat , puma , horse , Arabian camel , deer , Eurasian elk , Western roe deer , red deer , Eastern wapiti , sika deer , Manchurian Wapiti , reindeer , black-tailed deer , white-tailed deer , American bison , taurine cattle , goat , mouflon , sheep , eland , greater kudu , gemsbok , rabbit , golden hamster , domestic guinea pig , domestic yak , chital , fallow deer , cheetah , raccoon dog , bighorn sheep , blue antelope , Arabian oryx , scimitar-horned oryx , nyala , Spanish ibex , water buffalo , Japanese quail , Pyrenean chamois , Iberian red deer , Bank vole , American mink

Categories: Nervous system phene

Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 176640 (gene) , 245300 (trait)

Links to relevant human diseases in MONDO:

Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown

Disease-related: 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. (2020). OMIA:000944-9823: 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 Orge, L., Lima, C., Machado, C., Tavares, P., Mendonça, P., Carvalho, P., Silva, J., Pinto, M.L., Bastos, E., Pereira, J.C., Gonçalves-Anjo, N., Gama, A., Esteves, A., Alves, A., Matos, A.C., Seixas, F., Silva, F., Pires, I., Figueira, L., Vieira-Pinto, M., Sargo, R., Pires, M.D.A. :
Neuropathology of animal prion diseases. Biomolecules 11:466, 2021. Pubmed reference: 33801117. DOI: 10.3390/biom11030466.
2020 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.
2003 Matthews, D., Cooke, B.C. :
The potential for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in non-ruminant livestock and fish Revue Scientifique et Technique 22:283-96, 2003. Pubmed reference: 12793786.
1996 Pearce, F. :
BSE may lurk in pigs and chickens New Scientist 150:5, 1996.
1994 Groschup, M.H., Langeveld, J., Pfaff, E. :
The major species specific epitope in prion proteins of ruminants Archives of Virology 136:423-431, 1994. Pubmed reference: 7518226.
1990 Dawson, M., Wells, G.A.H., Parker, B.N.J., Scott, A.C. :
Primary Parenteral Transmission of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy to the Pig Veterinary Record 127:338, 1990. Pubmed reference: 2147795.
Done, J.T. :
Spongiform Encephalopathy in Pigs Veterinary Record 127:484, 1990. Pubmed reference: 2270645.
Meldrum, K.C. :
Transmission of BSE to a Pig Veterinary Record 127:362, 1990. Pubmed reference: 2260244.

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