Fusion of Doppel to octapeptide repeat and N-terminal half of hydrophobic region of prion protein confers resistance to serum deprivation

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Our previous studies have shown an essential role played by the octapeptide repeat region (OR) and the N-terminal half of hydrophobic region (HR) in the anti-apoptotic activity of prion protein (PrP). As PrP-like protein Doppel (Dpl), which structurally resembles an N-terminally truncated PrP, did not show any anti-apoptotic activity, we examined apoptosis of HpL3-4 cells expressing Dpl fused to various lengths of the N-terminal region of PrP to investigate whether the PrP/Dpl fusion proteins retain anti-apoptotic function. HpL3-4 cells expressing Dpl fused to PrP(1-124) with the OR and N-terminal half of HR of PrP showed anti-apoptotic function, whereas Dpl fused to PrP(1-95) with OR did not rescue cells from apoptotic cell death induced by serum deprivation. These results indicate that the OR and N-terminal half of HR of PrP retains anti-apoptotic activity similar to full-length PrP.

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Lee, D. C., Sakudo, A., Kim, C. K., Nishimura, T., Saeki, K., Matsumoto, Y., … Onodera, T. (2006). Fusion of Doppel to octapeptide repeat and N-terminal half of hydrophobic region of prion protein confers resistance to serum deprivation. Microbiology and Immunology, 50(3), 203–209. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.2006.tb03787.x

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