OMIA:000944-9852 : Spongiform encephalopathy, susceptibility/resistance to in Alces alces (Eurasian elk)

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 , pig , Arabian camel , deer , 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

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: yes

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.

Species-specific name: chronic wasting disease

Species-specific symbol: CWD

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2021). OMIA:000944-9852: 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.

2024 Hopp, P., Rolandsen, C.M., Korpenfelt, S.L., Våge, J., Sörén, K., Solberg, E.J., Averhed, G., Pusenius, J., Rosendal, T., Ericsson, G., Bakka, H.C., Mysterud, A., Gavier-Widén, D., Hautaniemi, M., Ågren, E., Isomursu, M., Madslien, K., Benestad, S.L., Nöremark, M. :
Sporadic cases of chronic wasting disease in old moose - an epidemiological study. J Gen Virol 105, 2024. Pubmed reference: 38265285. DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001952.
2023 [No authors listed] :
Monitoring of chronic wasting disease (CWD) (IV). EFSA J 21:e07936, 2023. Pubmed reference: 37077299. DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7936.
[No authors listed] :
The European Union summary report on surveillance for the presence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in 2022. EFSA J 21:e08384, 2023. Pubmed reference: 38035139. DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8384.
Harpaz, E., Vuong, T.T., Tran, L., Tranulis, M.A., Benestad, S.L., Ersdal, C. :
Inter- and intra-species conversion efficacies of Norwegian prion isolates estimated by serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification. Vet Res 54:84, 2023. Pubmed reference: 37773068. DOI: 10.1186/s13567-023-01220-7.
Lee, Y.R., Kim, Y.C., Won, S.Y., Jeong, M.J., Park, K.J., Park, H.C., Roh, I.S., Kang, H.E., Sohn, H.J., Jeong, B.H. :
Identification of a novel risk factor for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in elk: S100G single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the prion protein gene (PRNP). Vet Res 54:48, 2023. Pubmed reference: 37328789. DOI: 10.1186/s13567-023-01177-7.
Mathiason, C.K. :
Large animal models for chronic wasting disease. Cell Tissue Res 392:21-31, 2023. Pubmed reference: 35113219. DOI: 10.1007/s00441-022-03590-4.
Sola, D., Tran, L., Våge, J., Madslien, K., Vuong, T.T., Korpenfelt, S.L., Ågren, E.O., Averhed, G., Nöremark, M., Sörén, K., Isaksson, M., Acín, C., Badiola, J.J., Gavier-Widén, D., Benestad, S.L. :
Heterogeneity of pathological prion protein accumulation in the brain of moose (Alces alces) from Norway, Sweden and Finland with chronic wasting disease. Vet Res 54:74, 2023. Pubmed reference: 37684668. DOI: 10.1186/s13567-023-01208-3.
Tranulis, M.A., Tryland, M. :
The zoonotic potential of chronic wasting disease - A review. Foods 12:824, 2023. Pubmed reference: 36832899. DOI: 10.3390/foods12040824.
2022 Güere, M.E., Våge, J., Tharaldsen, H., Kvie, K.S., Bårdsen, B.J., Benestad, S.L., Vikøren, T., Madslien, K., Rolandsen, C.M., Tranulis, M.A., Røed, K.H. :
Chronic wasting disease in Norway-A survey of prion protein gene variation among cervids. Transbound Emerg Dis 69:e20-e31, 2022. Pubmed reference: 34346562. DOI: 10.1111/tbed.14258.
Roh, I.S., Kim, Y.C., Kim, H.J., Won, S.Y., Jeong, M.J., Hwang, J.Y., Kang, H.E., Sohn, H.J., Jeong, B.H. :
Polymorphisms of the prion-related protein gene are strongly associated with cervids' susceptibility to chronic wasting disease. Vet Rec 190:e940, 2022. Pubmed reference: 34562285. DOI: 10.1002/vetr.940.
2021 Gallardo, M.J., Delgado, F.O. :
Animal prion diseases: A review of intraspecies transmission. Open Vet J 11:707-723, 2021. Pubmed reference: 35070868. DOI: 10.5455/OVJ.2021.v11.i4.23.
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.
Tranulis, M.A., Gavier-Widén, D., Våge, J., Nöremark, M., Korpenfelt, S.L., Hautaniemi, M., Pirisinu, L., Nonno, R., Benestad, S.L. :
Chronic wasting disease in Europe: new strains on the horizon. Acta Vet Scand 63:48, 2021. Pubmed reference: 34823556. DOI: 10.1186/s13028-021-00606-x.
2018 Benestad, S.L., Telling, G.C. :
Chronic wasting disease: an evolving prion disease of cervids. Handb Clin Neurol 153:135-151, 2018. Pubmed reference: 29887133. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63945-5.00008-8.
Pirisinu, L., Tran, L., Chiappini, B., Vanni, I., Di Bari, M.A., Vaccari, G., Vikøren, T., Madslien, K.I., Våge, J., Spraker, T., Mitchell, G., Balachandran, A., Baron, T., Casalone, C., Rolandsen, C.M., Røed, K.H., Agrimi, U., Nonno, R., Benestad, S.L. :
Novel Type of Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Moose (Alces alces), Norway. Emerg Infect Dis 24:2210-2218, 2018. Pubmed reference: 30457526. DOI: 10.3201/eid2412.180702.

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