Author： Leucht Christoph
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0962-8819
Source： Transgenic Research, Vol.13, Iss.1, 2004-02, pp. : 81-85
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Abstract
The 37-kDa/67-kDa laminin receptor (LRP/LR) plays a major role in the propagation of PrPSc, the abnormal form of the prion protein. In order to ablate the expression of LRP/LR in mouse brain we generated transgenic mice ectopically expressing antisense LRP RNA in the brain under control of the neuron-specific enolase (NSE) promoter. Hemizygous transgenic mice TgN(NSEasLRP)2 showed a significant reduction of LRP/LR protein levels in hippocampal and cerebellar brain regions. These mice might act as powerful tools to investigate the role of the laminin receptor in scrapie pathogenesis.
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