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Mizutani T, Ishizaka A. Poliovirus capsid protein VP3 can penetrate vascular endothelial cells. FEBS Lett 2024; 598:1909-1918. [PMID: 38955545 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2024] [Revised: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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The poliovirus (PV) enters the central nervous system (CNS) via the bloodstream, suggesting the existence of a mechanism to cross the blood-brain barrier. Here, we report that PV capsid proteins (VP1 and VP3) can penetrate cells, with VP3 being more invasive. Two independent parts of VP3 are responsible for this function. Both peptides can penetrate human umbilical cord vascular endothelial cells, and one peptide of VP3 could also penetrate peripheral blood mononuclear cells. In an in vitro blood-brain barrier model using rat-derived astrocytes, pericytes, and endothelial cells, both peptides were observed to traverse from the blood side to the brain side at 6 h after administration. These results provide insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying PV invasion into the CNS.
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- Taketoshi Mizutani
- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Advanced Clinical Research Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Devaux CA, Pontarotti P, Levasseur A, Colson P, Raoult D. Is it time to switch to a formulation other than the live attenuated poliovirus vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis? Front Public Health 2024; 11:1284337. [PMID: 38259741 PMCID: PMC10801389 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1284337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
Abstract
The polioviruses (PVs) are mainly transmitted by direct contact with an infected person through the fecal-oral route and respiratory secretions (or more rarely via contaminated water or food) and have a primary tropism for the gut. After their replication in the gut, in rare cases (far less than 1% of the infected individuals), PVs can spread to the central nervous system leading to flaccid paralysis, which can result in respiratory paralysis and death. By the middle of the 20th century, every year the wild polioviruses (WPVs) are supposed to have killed or paralyzed over half a million people. The introduction of the oral poliovirus vaccines (OPVs) through mass vaccination campaigns (combined with better application of hygiene measures), was a success story which enabled the World Health Organization (WHO) to set the global eradication of poliomyelitis as an objective. However this strategy of viral eradication has its limits as the majority of poliomyelitis cases today arise in individuals infected with circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) which regain pathogenicity following reversion or recombination. In recent years (between January 2018 and May 2023), the WHO recorded 8.8 times more cases of polio which were linked to the attenuated OPV vaccines (3,442 polio cases after reversion or recombination events) than cases linked to a WPV (390 cases). Recent knowledge of the evolution of RNA viruses and the exchange of genetic material among biological entities of the intestinal microbiota, call for a reassessment of the polio eradication vaccine strategies.
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- Christian Albert Devaux
- Laboratory Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infection (MEPHI), Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-SNC5039), Marseille, France
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- Laboratory Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infection (MEPHI), Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-SNC5039), Marseille, France
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- Laboratory Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infection (MEPHI), Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Laboratory Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infection (MEPHI), Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- Laboratory Microbes Evolution Phylogeny and Infection (MEPHI), Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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Seasonal Trends in the Prevalence and Incidence of Viral Encephalitis in Korea (2015-2019). J Clin Med 2023; 12:jcm12052003. [PMID: 36902789 PMCID: PMC10003849 DOI: 10.3390/jcm12052003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Viral infections are a common cause of encephalitis. This study investigated the relationship between the incidence of encephalitis and that of respiratory and enteric viral infections in all age groups from 2015 to 2019, using the Health Insurance Review and Assessment (HIRA) Open Access Big Data Platform. We identified monthly incidence patterns and seasonal trends using the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA). The Granger causality test was used to analyze correlations between encephalitis incidence and the positive detection rate (PDR) at 1-month intervals. A total of 42,775 patients were diagnosed with encephalitis during the study period. The incidence of encephalitis was highest in the winter (26.8%). The PDRs for respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) and coronavirus (HCoV) were associated with the trend in encephalitis diagnosis in all age groups, with a 1-month lag period. In addition, an association with norovirus was observed in patients aged over 20 years, and with influenza virus (IFV) in patients aged over 60 years. This study found that HRSV, HCoV, IFV, and norovirus tended to precede encephalitis by 1 month. Further research is required to confirm the association between these viruses and encephalitis.
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Xing J, Wang K, Wang G, Li N, Zhang Y. Recent advances in enterovirus A71 pathogenesis: a focus on fatal human enterovirus A71 infection. Arch Virol 2022; 167:2483-2501. [PMID: 36171507 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-022-05606-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is one of the major pathogens responsible for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD). Many HFMD outbreaks have been reported throughout the world in the past decades. Compared with other viruses, EV-A71 infection is more frequently associated with severe neurological complications and even death in children. EV-A71 can also infect adults and cause severe complications and death, although such cases are very uncommon. Although fatal cases of EV-A71 infection have been reported, the underlying mechanisms of EV-A71 infection, especially the mode of viral spread into the central nervous system (CNS) and mechanisms of pulmonary edema, which is considered to be the direct cause of death, have not yet been fully clarified, and more studies are needed. Here, we first summarize the pathological findings in various systems of patients with fatal EV-A71 infections, focussing in detail on gross changes, histopathological examination, tissue distribution of viral antigens and nucleic acids, systemic inflammatory cell infiltration, and tissue distribution of viral receptors and their co-localization with viral antigens. We then present our conclusions about viral dissemination, neuropathogenesis, and the mechanism of pulmonary edema in EV-A71 infection, based on pathological findings.
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- Jingjun Xing
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, No. 818 Fenghua Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo, 315211, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China
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- The Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Ningbo University, No. 247 Renmin Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo, 315020, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, No. 818 Fenghua Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo, 315211, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, No. 818 Fenghua Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo, 315211, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, No. 818 Fenghua Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo, 315211, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
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Chen Z, Haider A, Chen J, Xiao Z, Gobbi L, Honer M, Grether U, Arnold SE, Josephson L, Liang SH. The Repertoire of Small-Molecule PET Probes for Neuroinflammation Imaging: Challenges and Opportunities beyond TSPO. J Med Chem 2021; 64:17656-17689. [PMID: 34905377 PMCID: PMC9094091 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c01571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Neuroinflammation is an adaptive response of the central nervous system to diverse potentially injurious stimuli, which is closely associated with neurodegeneration and typically characterized by activation of microglia and astrocytes. As a noninvasive and translational molecular imaging tool, positron emission tomography (PET) could provide a better understanding of neuroinflammation and its role in neurodegenerative diseases. Ligands to translator protein (TSPO), a putative marker of neuroinflammation, have been the most commonly studied in this context, but they suffer from serious limitations. Herein we present a repertoire of different structural chemotypes and novel PET ligand design for classical and emerging neuroinflammatory targets beyond TSPO. We believe that this Perspective will support multidisciplinary collaborations in academic and industrial institutions working on neuroinflammation and facilitate the progress of neuroinflammation PET probe development for clinical use.
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- Zhen Chen
- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital & Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital & Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital & Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital & Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
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- Pharma Research and Early Development, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, CH-4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Pharma Research and Early Development, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, CH-4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Pharma Research and Early Development, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, CH-4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology and the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 114 16th Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital & Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital & Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
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Chen J, Jing H, Martin-Nalda A, Bastard P, Rivière JG, Liu Z, Colobran R, Lee D, Tung W, Manry J, Hasek M, Boucherit S, Lorenzo L, Rozenberg F, Aubart M, Abel L, Su HC, Soler Palacin P, Casanova JL, Zhang SY. Inborn errors of TLR3- or MDA5-dependent type I IFN immunity in children with enterovirus rhombencephalitis. J Exp Med 2021; 218:212742. [PMID: 34726731 PMCID: PMC8570298 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20211349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Enterovirus (EV) infection rarely results in life-threatening infection of the central nervous system. We report two unrelated children with EV30 and EV71 rhombencephalitis. One patient carries compound heterozygous TLR3 variants (loss-of-function F322fs2* and hypomorphic D280N), and the other is homozygous for an IFIH1 variant (loss-of-function c.1641+1G>C). Their fibroblasts respond poorly to extracellular (TLR3) or intracellular (MDA5) poly(I:C) stimulation. The baseline (TLR3) and EV-responsive (MDA5) levels of IFN-β in the patients’ fibroblasts are low. EV growth is enhanced at early and late time points of infection in TLR3- and MDA5-deficient fibroblasts, respectively. Treatment with exogenous IFN-α2b before infection renders both cell lines resistant to EV30 and EV71, whereas post-infection treatment with IFN-α2b rescues viral susceptibility fully only in MDA5-deficient fibroblasts. Finally, the poly(I:C) and viral phenotypes of fibroblasts are rescued by the expression of WT TLR3 or MDA5. Human TLR3 and MDA5 are critical for cell-intrinsic immunity to EV, via the control of baseline and virus-induced type I IFN production, respectively.
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- Jie Chen
- St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Sixth Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Infection in Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients Research Group, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain.,Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain.,Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies, Barcelona, Spain
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- St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.,Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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- Infection in Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients Research Group, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain.,Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain.,Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies, Barcelona, Spain
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- St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
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- Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies, Barcelona, Spain.,Diagnostic Immunology Group, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain.,Immunology Division, Genetics Department, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.,Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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- St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
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- Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Virology, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France.,Pediatric Neurology Department, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.,Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Infection in Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients Research Group, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain.,Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain.,Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies, Barcelona, Spain
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- St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.,Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY
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- St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.,Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1163, Paris, France.,University of Paris, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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Tee HK, Zainol MI, Sam IC, Chan YF. Recent advances in the understanding of enterovirus A71 infection: a focus on neuropathogenesis. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2021; 19:733-747. [PMID: 33183118 DOI: 10.1080/14787210.2021.1851194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Introduction: Hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is more frequently associated with neurological complications and deaths compared to other enteroviruses.Areas covered: The authors discuss current understanding of the neuropathogenesis of EV-A71 based on various clinical, human, and animal model studies. The authors discuss the important advancements in virus entry, virus dissemination, and neuroinvasion. The authors highlight the role of host immune system, host genetic factors, viral quasispecies, and heparan sulfate in EV-A71 neuropathogenesis.Expert opinion: Comparison of EV-A71 with EV-D68 and PV shows similarity in primary target sites and dissemination to the central nervous system. More research is needed to understand cellular tropisms, persistence of EV-A71, and other possible invasion routes. EV-A71 infection has varied clinical manifestations which may be attributed to multiple receptors usage. Future development of antivirals and vaccines should target neurotropic enteroviruses. Repurposing drug and immunomodulators used in combination could reduce the severity of EV-A71 infection. Only a few drugs have been tested in clinical trials, and in the absence of antiviral and vaccines (except China), active virus surveillance, good hand hygiene, and physical distancing should be advocated. A better understanding of EV-A71 neuropathogenesis is critical for antiviral and multivalent vaccines development.
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- Han Kang Tee
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Chen BS, Lee HC, Lee KM, Gong YN, Shih SR. Enterovirus and Encephalitis. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:261. [PMID: 32153545 PMCID: PMC7044131 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Enterovirus-induced infection of the central nervous system (CNS) results in acute inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) and constitutes a significant global burden to human health. These viruses are thought to be highly cytolytic, therefore normal brain function could be greatly compromised following enteroviral infection of the CNS. A further layer of complexity is added by evidence showing that some enteroviruses may establish a persistent infection within the CNS and eventually lead to pathogenesis of certain neurodegenerative disorders. Interestingly, enterovirus encephalitis is particularly common among young children, suggesting a potential causal link between the development of the neuroimmune system and enteroviral neuroinvasion. Although the CNS involvement in enterovirus infections is a relatively rare complication, it represents a serious underlying cause of mortality. Here we review a selection of enteroviruses that infect the CNS and discuss recent advances in the characterization of these enteroviruses with regard to their routes of CNS infection, tropism, virulence, and immune responses.
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- Bo-Shiun Chen
- Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States
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- Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Research Center for Chinese Herbal Medicine, College of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Research Center for Food and Cosmetic Safety, College of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Health Industry Technology, College of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Generous AR, Harrison OJ, Troyanovsky RB, Mateo M, Navaratnarajah CK, Donohue RC, Pfaller CK, Alekhina O, Sergeeva AP, Indra I, Thornburg T, Kochetkova I, Billadeau DD, Taylor MP, Troyanovsky SM, Honig B, Shapiro L, Cattaneo R. Trans-endocytosis elicited by nectins transfers cytoplasmic cargo, including infectious material, between cells. J Cell Sci 2019; 132:jcs235507. [PMID: 31331966 PMCID: PMC6737912 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.235507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Here, we show that cells expressing the adherens junction protein nectin-1 capture nectin-4-containing membranes from the surface of adjacent cells in a trans-endocytosis process. We find that internalized nectin-1-nectin-4 complexes follow the endocytic pathway. The nectin-1 cytoplasmic tail controls transfer: its deletion prevents trans-endocytosis, while its exchange with the nectin-4 tail reverses transfer direction. Nectin-1-expressing cells acquire dye-labeled cytoplasmic proteins synchronously with nectin-4, a process most active during cell adhesion. Some cytoplasmic cargo remains functional after transfer, as demonstrated with encapsidated genomes of measles virus (MeV). This virus uses nectin-4, but not nectin-1, as a receptor. Epithelial cells expressing nectin-4, but not those expressing another MeV receptor in its place, can transfer infection to nectin-1-expressing primary neurons. Thus, this newly discovered process can move cytoplasmic cargo, including infectious material, from epithelial cells to neurons. We name the process nectin-elicited cytoplasm transfer (NECT). NECT-related trans-endocytosis processes may be exploited by pathogens to extend tropism. This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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- Alex R Generous
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
- Virology and Gene Therapy Track, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Systems Biology and Medicine, Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
- Virology and Gene Therapy Track, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
- Virology and Gene Therapy Track, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Systems Biology and Medicine, Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Systems Biology and Medicine, Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Systems Biology and Medicine, Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
- Virology and Gene Therapy Track, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Yao PP, Miao ZP, Xu F, Lu HJ, Sun YS, Xia Y, Chen C, Yang ZN, Xia SC, Jiang JM, Hu CG, Mao ZA, Gao M, Xu ZY, Ying HN, Yao CH, Zhu ZY, Zhu HP, Xiang HQ. An adult gerbil model for evaluating potential coxsackievirus A16 vaccine candidates. Vaccine 2019; 37:5341-5349. [PMID: 31351798 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.07.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Revised: 06/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A suitable animal model of CVA16 infection is crucial in order to understand its pathogenesis and to help develop antiviral vaccines or screen therapeutic drugs. The neonatal mouse model has a short sensitivity period to CA16 infection, which is a major limitation. In this study, we demonstrate that adult (60-day-old) gerbils are susceptible to CVA16 infection at high doses (108.0 TCID50). A clinical isolate strain of CVA16 was inoculated intraperitoneally into adult gerbils, which subsequently developed significant clinical symptoms, including hind limb weakness, paralysis of one or both hind limbs, tremors, and eventual death from neurological disorders. Real-time RT-PCR revealed that viral loads in the spinal cord and brainstem were higher than those in other organs/tissues. Histopathological changes, such as neuronal degeneration, neuronal loss, and neuronophagia, were observed in the spinal cord, brainstem, and heart muscle, along with necrotizing myositis. Gerbils receiving both prime and boost immunizations of alum adjuvant inactivated vaccine exhibited no clinical signs of disease or mortality following challenge by CVA16, whereas 80% of control animals showed obvious clinical signs, including slowness, paralysis of one or both hind limbs, and eventual death, suggesting that the CVA16 vaccine can fully protect gerbils against CVA16 challenge. These results demonstrate that an adult gerbil model provides us with a useful tool for studying the pathogenesis and evaluating antiviral reagents of CVA16 infection. The development of this animal model would also be conducive to screening promising CVA16 vaccine candidates as well as further vaccination evaluation.
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- Ping-Ping Yao
- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Pukang Biotechnology Co.,LTD., China
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- Zhejiang Pukang Biotechnology Co.,LTD., China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China.
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- Health Service Development Center of Hangzhou, Hangzhou, China.
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Sato K, Tachikawa M, Watanabe M, Miyauchi E, Uchida Y, Terasaki T. Identification of Blood-Brain Barrier-Permeable Proteins Derived from a Peripheral Organ: In Vivo and in Vitro Evidence of Blood-to-Brain Transport of Creatine Kinase. Mol Pharm 2019; 16:247-257. [PMID: 30495961 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Certain proteins, such as inflammatory cytokines, that are released from injured or diseased organs are transported from the circulating blood through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) into the brain and contribute to the pathogenesis of related central nervous system dysfunctions. However, little is known about the protein transport mechanisms involved in the central nervous system dysfunctions. The aims of the present study were to identify BBB-permeable protein(s) derived from liver and to clarify their transport characteristics at the BBB. After administration of biotin-labeled liver cytosolic protein fraction to mice in vivo, we identified 9 biotin-labeled proteins in the brain. Among them, we focused here on creatine kinase (CK). In vitro uptake studies with human brain microvessel endothelial cells (hCMEC/D3 cells) showed preferential uptake of muscle-type CK (CK-MM) compared with brain-type CK (CK-BB) at the BBB. Integration plot analysis revealed that CK-MM readily penetrated into brain parenchyma from the circulating blood across the BBB. The uptake of CK-MM by hCMEC/D3 cells was decreased at 4 °C and in the presence of clathrin- and caveolin-dependent endocytosis inhibitors. These results indicate that entry of CK into the brain is mediated by a transport system(s) at the BBB.
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- Kazuki Sato
- Division of Membrane Transport and Drug Targeting, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8577 , Japan
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- Division of Membrane Transport and Drug Targeting, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8577 , Japan
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- Division of Membrane Transport and Drug Targeting, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8577 , Japan
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- Division of Membrane Transport and Drug Targeting, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8577 , Japan
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- Division of Membrane Transport and Drug Targeting, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8577 , Japan
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- Division of Membrane Transport and Drug Targeting, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8577 , Japan
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Mao Q, Hao X, Hu Y, Du R, Lang S, Bian L, Gao F, Yang C, Cui B, Zhu F, Shen L, Liang Z. A neonatal mouse model of central nervous system infections caused by Coxsackievirus B5. Emerg Microbes Infect 2018; 7:185. [PMID: 30459302 PMCID: PMC6246558 DOI: 10.1038/s41426-018-0186-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Revised: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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As one of the key members of the coxsackievirus B group, coxsackievirus B5 (CV-B5) can cause many central nervous system diseases, such as viral encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, and acute flaccid paralysis. Notably, epidemiological data indicate that outbreaks of CV-B5-associated central nervous system (CNS) diseases have been reported worldwide throughout history. In this study, which was conducted to promote CV-B5 vaccine and anti-virus drug research, a 3-day-old BALB/c mouse model was established using a CV-B5 clinical isolate (CV-B5/JS417) as the challenge strain. Mice challenged with CV-B5/JS417 exhibited a series of neural clinical symptoms and death with necrosis of neuronal cells in the cerebral cortex and the entire spinal cord, hindlimb muscles, and cardiomyocytes. The viral load of each tissue at various post-challenge time points suggested that CV-B5 replicated in the small intestine and was subsequently transmitted to various organs via viremia; the virus potentially entered the brain through the spinal axons, causing neuronal cell necrosis. In addition, this mouse model was used to evaluate the protective effect of a CV-B5 vaccine. The results indicated that both the inactivated CV-B5 vaccine and anti-CVB5 serum significantly protected mice from a lethal infection of CV-B5/JS417 by producing neutralizing antibodies. In summary, the first CV-B5 neonatal mouse model has been established and can sustain CNS infections in a manner similar to that observed in humans. This model will be a useful tool for studies on pathogenesis, vaccines, and anti-viral drug evaluations.
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- Qunying Mao
- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Quality Control Department, Hualan Biological Engineering Inc., Henan, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Shandong Xinbo Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Dezhou, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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- Vaccine Clinical Evaluation Department, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China
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- Institute for Biological Products Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China.
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Xue YC, Feuer R, Cashman N, Luo H. Enteroviral Infection: The Forgotten Link to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis? Front Mol Neurosci 2018; 11:63. [PMID: 29593492 PMCID: PMC5857577 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that primarily attacks motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, leading to progressive paralysis and ultimately death. Currently there is no effective therapy. The majority of ALS cases are sporadic, with no known family history; unfortunately the etiology remains largely unknown. Contribution of Enteroviruses (EVs), a family of positive-stranded RNA viruses including poliovirus, coxsackievirus, echovirus, enterovirus-A71 and enterovirus-D68, to the development of ALS has been suspected as they can target motor neurons, and patients with prior poliomyelitis show a higher risk of motor neuron disease. Multiple efforts have been made to detect enteroviral genome in ALS patient tissues over the past two decades; however the clinical data are controversial and a causal relationship has not yet been established. Recent evidence from in vitro and animal studies suggests that enterovirus-induced pathology remarkably resembles the cellular and molecular phenotype of ALS, indicating a possible link between enteroviral infection and ALS pathogenesis. In this review, we summarize the nature of enteroviral infection, including route of infection, cells targeted, and viral persistence within the central nervous system (CNS). We review the molecular mechanisms underlying viral infection and highlight the similarity between viral pathogenesis and the molecular and pathological features of ALS, and finally, discuss the potential role of enteroviral infection in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a disease that shares common clinical, genetic, and pathological features with ALS, and the significance of anti-viral therapy as an option for the treatment of ALS.
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- Yuan Chao Xue
- Centre for Heart and Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- The Integrated Regenerative Research Institute at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Heart and Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Morrey JD, Wang H, Hurst BL, Zukor K, Siddharthan V, Van Wettere AJ, Sinex DG, Tarbet EB. Causation of Acute Flaccid Paralysis by Myelitis and Myositis in Enterovirus-D68 Infected Mice Deficient in Interferon αβ/γ Receptor Deficient Mice. Viruses 2018; 10:E33. [PMID: 29329211 PMCID: PMC5795446 DOI: 10.3390/v10010033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Revised: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) caused a large outbreak in the summer and fall of 2014 in the United States. It causes serious respiratory disease, but causation of associated paralysis is controversial, because the virus is not routinely identified in cerebrospinal fluid. To establish clinical correlates with human disease, we evaluated EV-D68 infection in non-lethal paralysis mouse models. Ten-day-old mice lacking interferon responses were injected intraperitoneally with the virus. Paralysis developed in hindlimbs. After six weeks of paralysis, the motor neurons were depleted due to viral infection. Hindlimb muscles were also infected and degenerating. Even at the earliest stage of paralysis, muscles were still infected and were degenerating, in addition to presence of virus in the spinal cord. To model natural respiratory infection, five-day-old mice were infected intranasally with EV-D68. Two of the four infected mice developed forelimb paralysis. The affected limbs had muscle disease, but no spinal cord infection was detected. The unique contributions of this study are that EV-D68 causes paralysis in mice, and that causation by muscle disease, with or without spinal cord disease, may help to resolve the controversy that the virus can cause paralysis, even if it cannot be identified in cerebrospinal fluid.
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- John D Morrey
- Institute for Antiviral Research, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, 5600 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
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- Institute for Antiviral Research, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, 5600 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
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- Institute for Antiviral Research, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, 5600 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
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- Institute for Antiviral Research, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, 5600 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
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- Institute for Antiviral Research, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, 5600 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
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- Utah Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, 950 East 1400 North, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84341, USA.
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- Department of Communication Disorders and Deaf Education, 2800 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
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- Institute for Antiviral Research, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, 5600 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
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Anastasina M, Domanska A, Palm K, Butcher S. Human picornaviruses associated with neurological diseases and their neutralization by antibodies. J Gen Virol 2017. [PMID: 28631594 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Picornaviruses are the most commonly encountered infectious agents in mankind. They typically cause mild infections of the gastrointestinal or respiratory tract, but sometimes also invade the central nervous system. There, they can cause severe diseases with long-term sequelae and even be lethal. The most infamous picornavirus is poliovirus, for which significant epidemics of poliomyelitis were reported from the end of the nineteenth century. A successful vaccination campaign has brought poliovirus close to eradication, but neurological diseases caused by other picornaviruses have increasingly been reported since the late 1990s. In this review we focus on enterovirus 71, coxsackievirus A16, enterovirus 68 and human parechovirus 3, which have recently drawn attention because of their links to severe neurological diseases. We discuss the clinical relevance of these viruses and the primary role of humoral immunity in controlling them, and summarize current knowledge on the neutralization of such viruses by antibodies.
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- Maria Anastasina
- Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 1, 00790 Helsinki, Finland.,Protobios LLC, Mäealuse 4, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 1, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
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- Protobios LLC, Mäealuse 4, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia.,Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 1, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
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Cordey S, Schibler M, L'Huillier AG, Wagner N, Gonçalves AR, Ambrosioni J, Asner S, Turin L, Posfay-Barbe KM, Kaiser L. Comparative analysis of viral shedding in pediatric and adult subjects with central nervous system-associated enterovirus infections from 2013 to 2015 in Switzerland. J Clin Virol 2017; 89:22-29. [PMID: 28214758 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2017.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Revised: 01/25/2017] [Accepted: 01/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Several enterovirus (EV) genotypes can result in aseptic meningitis, but their routes of access to the central nervous system remain to be elucidated and may differ between the pediatric and adult populations. OBJECTIVE To assess the pattern of viral shedding in pediatric and adult subjects with acute EV meningitis and to generate EV surveillance data for Switzerland. STUDY DESIGN All pediatric and adult subjects admitted to the University Hospitals of Geneva with a diagnosis of EV meningitis between 2013 and 2015 were enrolled. A quantitative EV real-time reverse transcriptase (rRT)-PCR was performed on the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), blood, stool, urine and respiratory specimens to assess viral shedding and provide a comparative analysis of pediatric and adult populations. EV genotyping was systematically performed. RESULTS EV positivity rates differed significantly between pediatric and adult subjects; 62.5% of pediatric cases (no adult case) were EV-positive in stool and blood for subjects for whom these samples were all collected. Similarly, the EV viral load in blood was significantly higher in pediatric subjects. Blood C-reactive protein levels were lower and the number of leucocytes/mm3 in the CSF were higher in non-viremic than in viremic pediatric subjects, respectively. A greater diversity of EV genotypes was observed in pediatric cases, with a predominance of echovirus 30 in children ≥3 years old and adults. CONCLUSION In contrast to adults, EV-disseminated infections are predominant in pediatric subjects and show different patterns of EV viral shedding. This observation may be useful for clinicians and contribute to modify current practices of patient care.
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- S Cordey
- Laboratory of Virology, Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospitals of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland; University of Geneva Medical School, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory of Virology, Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospitals of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland; University of Geneva Medical School, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- University of Geneva Medical School, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals of Geneva, 6 Rue Willy-Donzé, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
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- University of Geneva Medical School, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals of Geneva, 6 Rue Willy-Donzé, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Virology, Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospitals of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland; University of Geneva Medical School, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, 149 Carrer del Rosselló, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Center, 46 Rue du Bugnon, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Center, 46 Rue du Bugnon, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Virology, Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospitals of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland; University of Geneva Medical School, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- University of Geneva Medical School, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals of Geneva, 6 Rue Willy-Donzé, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Virology, Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospitals of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland; University of Geneva Medical School, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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Xiao Y, Daniell H. Long-term evaluation of mucosal and systemic immunity and protection conferred by different polio booster vaccines. Vaccine 2017; 35:5418-5425. [PMID: 28111147 PMCID: PMC5517362 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.12.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Revised: 11/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Oral polio vaccine (OPV) and Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) have distinct advantages and limitations. IPV does not provide mucosal immunity and introduction of IPV to mitigate consequences of circulating vaccine-derived polio virus from OPV has very limited effect on transmission and OPV campaigns are essential for interrupting wild polio virus transmission, even in developed countries with a high coverage of IPV and protected sewer systems. The problem is magnified in many countries with limited resources. Requirement of refrigeration for storage and transportation for both IPV and OPV is also a major challenge in developing countries. Therefore, we present here long-term studies on comparison of a plant-based booster vaccine, which is free of virus and cold chain with IPV boosters and provide data on mucosal and systemic immunity and protection conferred by neutralizing antibodies. Mice were primed subcutaneously with IPV and boosted orally with lyophilized plant cells containing 1 μg or 25 μg polio viral protein 1 (VP1), once a month for three months or a single booster one year after the first prime. Our results show that VP1-IgG1 titers in single or double dose IPV dropped to background levels after one year of immunization. This decrease correlated with >50% reduction in seropositivity in double dose and <10% seropositivity in single dose IPV against serotype 1. Single dose IPV offered no or minimal protection against serotype 1 and 2 but conferred protection against serotype 3. VP1-IgA titers were negligible in IPV single or double dose vaccinated mice. VP1 antigen with two plant-derived adjuvants induced significantly high level and long lasting VP1-IgG1, IgA and neutralizing antibody titers (average 4.3–6.8 log2 titers). Plant boosters with VP1 and plant derived adjuvants maintained the same level titers from 29 to 400 days and conferred the same level of protection against all three serotypes throughout the duration of this study. Even during period, when no plant booster was given (∼260 days), VP1-IgG1 titers were maintained at high levels. Lyophilized plant cells expressing VP1 can be stored without losing efficacy, eliminating cold chain. Virus-free, cold-chain free vaccine is ready for further clinical development.
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- Yuhong Xiao
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Watanabe R, Kakizaki M, Ikehara Y, Togayachi A. Formation of fibroblastic reticular network in the brain after infection with neurovirulent murine coronavirus. Neuropathology 2016; 36:513-526. [PMID: 27121485 PMCID: PMC7167860 DOI: 10.1111/neup.12302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2016] [Revised: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 03/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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cl‐2 virus is an extremely neurovirulent murine coronavirus. However, during the initial phase of infection between 12 and 24 h post‐inoculation (hpi), the viral antigens are detected only in the meninges, followed by viral spread into the ventricular wall before invasion into the brain parenchyma, indicating that the viruses employ a passage between the meninges and ventricular wall as an entry route into the brain parenchyma. At 48 hpi, the passage was found to be constructed by ER‐TR7 antigen (ERag)‐positive fibers (ERfibs) associated with laminin and collagen III between the fourth ventricle and meninges at the cerebellopontine angle. The construct of the fibers mimics the reticular fibers of the fibroblastic reticular network, which comprises a conduit system in the lymphoid organs. In the meninges, ERfibs together with collagen fibers, lining in a striped pattern, made up a pile of thin sheets. In the brain parenchyma, mature ERfibs associated with laminin were found around blood vessels. Besides mature ERfibs, immature Erfibs without associations with other extracellular matrix components like laminin and collagen appeared after infection, suggesting that the CNS creates a unique conduit system for immune communication triggered by viral invasion.
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- Rihito Watanabe
- Department of Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Center For Medical Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Research Center For Medical Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Chen WW, Zhang X, Huang WJ. Role of neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases (Review). Mol Med Rep 2016; 13:3391-6. [PMID: 26935478 PMCID: PMC4805095 DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2016.4948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 614] [Impact Index Per Article: 76.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2015] [Accepted: 02/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Neurodegeneration is a phenomenon that occurs in the central nervous system through the hallmarks associating the loss of neuronal structure and function. Neurodegeneration is observed after viral insult and mostly in various so-called 'neurodegenerative diseases', generally observed in the elderly, such as Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that negatively affect mental and physical functioning. Causative agents of neurodegeneration have yet to be identified. However, recent data have identified the inflammatory process as being closely linked with multiple neurodegenerative pathways, which are associated with depression, a consequence of neurodegenerative disease. Accordingly, pro-inflammatory cytokines are important in the pathophysiology of depression and dementia. These data suggest that the role of neuroinflammation in neurodegeneration must be fully elucidated, since pro-inflammatory agents, which are the causative effects of neuroinflammation, occur widely, particularly in the elderly in whom inflammatory mechanisms are linked to the pathogenesis of functional and mental impairments. In this review, we investigated the role played by the inflammatory process in neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Wei-Wei Chen
- Department of Neurology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221009, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221009, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221009, P.R. China
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Faleye TOC, Adewumi MO, Adeniji JA. Defining the Enterovirus Diversity Landscape of a Fecal Sample: A Methodological Challenge? Viruses 2016; 8:E18. [PMID: 26771630 PMCID: PMC4728578 DOI: 10.3390/v8010018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 12/24/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Enteroviruses are a group of over 250 naked icosahedral virus serotypes that have been associated with clinical conditions that range from intrauterine enterovirus transmission withfataloutcome through encephalitis and meningitis, to paralysis. Classically, enterovirus detection was done by assaying for the development of the classic enterovirus-specific cytopathic effect in cell culture. Subsequently, the isolates were historically identified by a neutralization assay. More recently, identification has been done by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). However, in recent times, there is a move towards direct detection and identification of enteroviruses from clinical samples using the cell culture-independent RT semi-nested PCR (RT-snPCR) assay. This RT-snPCR procedure amplifies the VP1 gene, which is then sequenced and used for identification. However, while cell culture-based strategies tend to show a preponderance of certain enterovirus species depending on the cell lines included in the isolation protocol, the RT-snPCR strategies tilt in a different direction. Consequently, it is becoming apparent that the diversity observed in certain enterovirus species, e.g., enterovirus species B(EV-B), might not be because they are the most evolutionarily successful. Rather, it might stem from cell line-specific bias accumulated over several years of use of the cell culture-dependent isolation protocols. Furthermore, it might also be a reflection of the impact of the relative genome concentration on the result of pan-enterovirus VP1 RT-snPCR screens used during the identification of cell culture isolates. This review highlights the impact of these two processes on the current diversity landscape of enteroviruses and the need to re-assess enterovirus detection and identification algorithms in a bid to better balance our understanding of the enterovirus diversity landscape.
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- Department of Virology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
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- WHO National Polio Laboratory, Department of Virology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
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Luethy LN, Erickson AK, Jesudhasan PR, Ikizler M, Dermody TS, Pfeiffer JK. Comparison of three neurotropic viruses reveals differences in viral dissemination to the central nervous system. Virology 2016; 487:1-10. [PMID: 26479325 PMCID: PMC4679581 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2015] [Revised: 09/23/2015] [Accepted: 09/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Neurotropic viruses initiate infection in peripheral tissues prior to entry into the central nervous system (CNS). However, mechanisms of dissemination are not completely understood. We used genetically marked viruses to compare dissemination of poliovirus, yellow fever virus 17D (YFV-17D), and reovirus type 3 Dearing in mice from a hind limb intramuscular inoculation site to the sciatic nerve, spinal cord, and brain. While YFV-17D likely entered the CNS via blood, poliovirus and reovirus likely entered the CNS by transport through the sciatic nerve to the spinal cord. We found that dissemination was inefficient in adult immune-competent mice for all three viruses, particularly reovirus. Dissemination of all viruses was more efficient in immune-deficient mice. Although poliovirus and reovirus both accessed the CNS by transit through the sciatic nerve, stimulation of neuronal transport by muscle damage enhanced dissemination only of poliovirus. Our results suggest that these viruses access the CNS using different pathways.
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- Lauren N Luethy
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA; Elizabeth B. Lamb Center for Pediatric Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA; Elizabeth B. Lamb Center for Pediatric Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
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Mizutani T, Ishizaka A, Nihei CI. Transferrin Receptor 1 Facilitates Poliovirus Permeation of Mouse Brain Capillary Endothelial Cells. J Biol Chem 2015; 291:2829-36. [PMID: 26637351 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.690941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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As a possible route for invasion of the CNS, circulating poliovirus (PV) in the blood is believed to traverse the blood-brain barrier (BBB), resulting in paralytic poliomyelitis. However, the underlying mechanism is poorly understood. In this study, we demonstrated that mouse transferrin receptor 1 (mTfR1) is responsible for PV attachment to the cell surface, allowing invasion into the CNS via the BBB. PV interacts with the apical domain of mTfR1 on mouse brain capillary endothelial cells (MBEC4) in a dose-dependent manner via its capsid protein (VP1). We found that F-G, G-H, and H-I loops in VP1 are important for this binding. However, C-D, D-E, and E-F loops in VP1-fused Venus proteins efficiently penetrate MBEC4 cells. These results imply that the VP1 functional domain responsible for cell attachment is different from that involved in viral permeation of the brain capillary endothelium. We observed that co-treatment of MBEC4 cells with excess PV particles but not dextran resulted in blockage of transferrin transport into cells. Using the Transwell in vitro BBB model, transferrin co-treatment inhibited permeation of PV into MBEC4 cells and delayed further viral permeation via mTfR1 knockdown. With mTfR1 as a positive mediator of PV-host cell attachment and PV permeation of MBEC4 cells, our results indicate a novel role of TfR1 as a cellular receptor for human PV receptor/CD155-independent PV invasion of the CNS.
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- Taketoshi Mizutani
- From the Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation (BIKAKEN), Tokyo, 3-14-23 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0021, Japan
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- From the Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation (BIKAKEN), Tokyo, 3-14-23 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0021, Japan
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- From the Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation (BIKAKEN), Tokyo, 3-14-23 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0021, Japan
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Volle R, Archimbaud C, Couraud PO, Romero IA, Weksler B, Mirand A, Pereira B, Henquell C, Peigue-Lafeuille H, Bailly JL. Differential permissivity of human cerebrovascular endothelial cells to enterovirus infection and specificities of serotype EV-A71 in crossing an in vitro model of the human blood-brain barrier. J Gen Virol 2015; 96:1682-95. [PMID: 25711966 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.000103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Human cerebral microvascular endothelial cells (hCMEC/D3 cell line) form a steady polarized barrier when cultured in vitro on a permeable membrane. Their susceptibility to enterovirus (EV) strains was analysed to investigate how these viruses may cross the blood-brain barrier. A sample of 88 virus strains was selected on phylogenetic features amongst 43 epidemiologically relevant types of the four EV species A-D. The EV-A71 genome was replicated at substantial rates, whilst the infectious virus was released at extremely low but sustained rates at both barrier sides for at least 4 days. EV-A71 antigens were detected in a limited number of cells. The properties of the endothelial barrier (structure and permeability) remained intact throughout infection. The chronic EV-A71 infection was in sharp contrast to the productive infection of cytolytic EVs (e.g. echoviruses E-6 and E-30). The hCMEC/D3 barriers infected with the latter EVs exhibited elevated proportions of apoptotic and necrotic cells, which resulted in major injuries to the endothelial barriers with a dramatic increase of paracellular permeability and virus crossing to the abluminal side. The following intracellular rearrangements were also seen: early destruction of the actin cytoskeleton, remodelling of intracellular membranes and reorganization of the mitochondrion network in a small cluster near the perinuclear space.
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- Romain Volle
- 1Clermont Université, Université d'Auvergne, EPIE, EA 4843, Clermont-Ferrand, France 2CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Virologie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- 1Clermont Université, Université d'Auvergne, EPIE, EA 4843, Clermont-Ferrand, France 2CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Virologie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- 5Department of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- 1Clermont Université, Université d'Auvergne, EPIE, EA 4843, Clermont-Ferrand, France 2CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Virologie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- 3CHU Clermont-Ferrand, DRCI, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- 2CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Virologie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- 1Clermont Université, Université d'Auvergne, EPIE, EA 4843, Clermont-Ferrand, France 2CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Virologie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- 1Clermont Université, Université d'Auvergne, EPIE, EA 4843, Clermont-Ferrand, France 2CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Virologie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Zhou L, Miranda-Saksena M, Saksena NK. Viruses and neurodegeneration. Virol J 2013; 10:172. [PMID: 23724961 PMCID: PMC3679988 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-10-172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2012] [Accepted: 05/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are chronic degenerative diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), which affect 37 million people worldwide. As the lifespan increases, the NDs are the fourth leading cause of death in the developed countries and becoming increasingly prevalent in developing countries. Despite considerable research, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Although the large majority of studies do not show support for the involvement of pathogenic aetiology in classical NDs, a number of emerging studies show support for possible association of viruses with classical neurodegenerative diseases in humans. Space does not permit for extensive details to be discussed here on non-viral-induced neurodegenerative diseases in humans, as they are well described in literature.Viruses induce alterations and degenerations of neurons both directly and indirectly. Their ability to attack the host immune system, regions of nervous tissue implies that they can interfere with the same pathways involved in classical NDs in humans. Supporting this, many similarities between classical NDs and virus-mediated neurodegeneration (non-classical) have been shown at the anatomic, sub-cellular, genomic and proteomic levels suggesting that viruses can explain neurodegenerative disorders mechanistically. The main objective of this review is to provide readers a detailed snapshot of similarities viral and non-viral neurodegenerative diseases share, so that mechanistic pathways of neurodegeneration in human NDs can be clearly understood. Viruses can guide us to unveil these pathways in human NDs. This will further stimulate the birth of new concepts in the biological research, which is needed for gaining deeper insights into the treatment of human NDs and delineate mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration.
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- Li Zhou
- Retroviral Genetics Division, Center for Virus Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Westmead NSW 2145, Sydney Australia
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Atsumi S, Matsumine A, Toyoda H, Niimi R, Iino T, Nakamura T, Matsubara T, Asanuma K, Komada Y, Uchida A, Sudo A. Oncolytic virotherapy for human bone and soft tissue sarcomas using live attenuated poliovirus. Int J Oncol 2012; 41:893-902. [PMID: 22692919 DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2012.1514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2012] [Accepted: 05/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The poliovirus receptor CD155, is essential for poliovirus to infect and induce death in neural cells. Recently, CD155 has been shown to be selectively expressed on certain types of tumor cells originating from the neural crest, including malignant glioma and neuroblastoma. However, the expression pattern of CD155 in soft tissue sarcoma has not been examined. Therefore, we first examined CD155 expression in sarcoma cell lines, and found the expression of both CD155 mRNA and protein in 12 soft and bone tissue sarcoma cell lines. Furthermore, we examined the effect of live attenuated poliovirus (LAPV) on 6 bone and soft tissue sarcoma cell lines in vitro, and found that LAPV induced apoptosis by activating caspases 7 and 3 in all of these cell lines. Furthermore, in BALB/c nu/nu mice xenotransplanted with HT1080 fibrosarcoma cells, administration of live attenuated poliovirus caused growth suppression of the tumors. These results suggest that oncolytic therapy using a LAPV may represent a new option for the treatment of bone and soft tissue sarcomas.
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- Satoru Atsumi
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
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Ohka S, Nihei CI, Yamazaki M, Nomoto A. Poliovirus trafficking toward central nervous system via human poliovirus receptor-dependent and -independent pathway. Front Microbiol 2012; 3:147. [PMID: 22529845 PMCID: PMC3328850 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2011] [Accepted: 03/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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In humans, paralytic poliomyelitis results from the invasion of the central nervous system (CNS) by circulating poliovirus (PV) via the blood-brain barrier (BBB). After the virus enters the CNS, it replicates in neurons, especially in motor neurons, inducing the cell death that causes paralytic poliomyelitis. Along with this route of dissemination, neural pathway has been reported in humans, monkeys, and PV-sensitive human PV receptor (hPVR/CD155)-transgenic (Tg) mice. We demonstrated that a fast retrograde axonal transport process is required for PV dissemination through the sciatic nerve of hPVR-Tg mice and that intramuscularly inoculated PV causes paralysis in a hPVR-dependent manner. We also showed that hPVR-independent axonal transport of PV exists in hPVR-Tg and non-Tg mice, indicating that several different pathways for PV axonal transport exist in these mice. Circulating PV after intravenous inoculation in mice cross the BBB at a high rate in a hPVR-independent manner. We will implicate an involvement of a new possible receptor for PV to permeate the BBB based on our recent findings.
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- Seii Ohka
- Division of Cancer Stem Cell, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
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The toll-like receptor 3-mediated antiviral response is important for protection against poliovirus infection in poliovirus receptor transgenic mice. J Virol 2011; 86:185-94. [PMID: 22072781 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.05245-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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RIG-I-like receptors and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play important roles in the recognition of viral infections. However, how these molecules contribute to the defense against poliovirus (PV) infection remains unclear. We characterized the roles of these sensors in PV infection in transgenic mice expressing the PV receptor. We observed that alpha/beta interferon (IFN-α/β) production in response to PV infection occurred in an MDA5-dependent but RIG-I-independent manner in primary cultured kidney cells in vitro. These results suggest that, similar to the RNA of other picornaviruses, PV RNA is recognized by MDA5. However, serum IFN-α levels, the viral load in nonneural tissues, and mortality rates did not differ significantly between MDA5-deficient mice and wild-type mice. In contrast, we observed that serum IFN production was abrogated and that the viral load in nonneural tissues and mortality rates were both markedly higher in TIR domain-containing adaptor-inducing IFN-β (TRIF)-deficient and TLR3-deficient mice than in wild-type mice. The mortality rate of MyD88-deficient mice was slightly higher than that of wild-type mice. These results suggest that multiple pathways are involved in the antiviral response in mice and that the TLR3-TRIF-mediated signaling pathway plays an essential role in the antiviral response against PV infection.
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The reovirus sigma1s protein is a determinant of hematogenous but not neural virus dissemination in mice. J Virol 2011; 85:11781-90. [PMID: 21917967 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02289-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Nonstructural protein σ1s is a critical determinant of hematogenous dissemination by type 1 reoviruses, which reach the central nervous system (CNS) by a strictly blood-borne route. However, it is not known whether σ1s contributes to neuropathogenesis of type 3 reoviruses, which disseminate by both vascular and neural pathways. Using isogenic type 3 viruses that vary only in σ1s expression, we observed that mice survived at a higher frequency following hind-limb inoculation with σ1s-null virus than when inoculated with wild-type virus. This finding suggests that σ1s is essential for reovirus virulence when inoculated at a site that requires systemic spread to cause disease. Wild-type and σ1s-null viruses produced comparable titers in the spinal cord, suggesting that σ1s is dispensable for invasion of the CNS. Although the two viruses ultimately achieved similar peak titers in the brain, loads of wild-type virus were substantially greater than those of the σ1s-null mutant at early times after inoculation. In contrast, wild-type virus produced substantially higher titers than the σ1s-null virus in peripheral organs to which reovirus spreads via the blood, including the heart, intestine, liver, and spleen. Concordantly, viral titers in the blood were higher following infection with wild-type virus than following infection with the σ1s-null mutant. These results suggest that differences in viral brain titers at early time points postinfection are due to limited virus delivery to the brain by hematogenous pathways. Transection of the sciatic nerve prior to hind-limb inoculation diminished viral spread to the spinal cord. However, wild-type virus retained the capacity to disseminate to the brain following sciatic nerve transection, indicating that wild-type reovirus can spread to the brain by the blood. Together, these results indicate that σ1s is not required for reovirus spread by neural mechanisms. Instead, σ1s mediates hematogenous dissemination within the infected host, which is required for full reovirus neurovirulence.
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Rhoades RE, Tabor-Godwin JM, Tsueng G, Feuer R. Enterovirus infections of the central nervous system. Virology 2011; 411:288-305. [PMID: 21251690 PMCID: PMC3060663 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2010.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2010] [Accepted: 12/08/2010] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Enteroviruses (EV) frequently infect the central nervous system (CNS) and induce neurological diseases. Although the CNS is composed of many different cell types, the spectrum of tropism for each EV is considerable. These viruses have the ability to completely shut down host translational machinery and are considered highly cytolytic, thereby causing cytopathic effects. Hence, CNS dysfunction following EV infection of neuronal or glial cells might be expected. Perhaps unexpectedly given their cytolytic nature, EVs may establish a persistent infection within the CNS, and the lasting effects on the host might be significant with unanticipated consequences. This review will describe the clinical aspects of EV-mediated disease, mechanisms of disease, determinants of tropism, immune activation within the CNS, and potential treatment regimes.
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- Corresponding author. Cell & Molecular Biology Joint Doctoral Program, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive; San Diego, CA 92182-4614, USA. Fax: +1 619 594 0777.
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Lancaster KZ, Pfeiffer JK. Limited trafficking of a neurotropic virus through inefficient retrograde axonal transport and the type I interferon response. PLoS Pathog 2010; 6:e1000791. [PMID: 20221252 PMCID: PMC2832671 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2009] [Accepted: 01/26/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Poliovirus is an enteric virus that rarely invades the human central nervous system (CNS). To identify barriers limiting poliovirus spread from the periphery to CNS, we monitored trafficking of 10 marked viruses. After oral inoculation of susceptible mice, poliovirus was present in peripheral neurons, including vagus and sciatic nerves. To model viral trafficking in peripheral neurons, we intramuscularly injected mice with poliovirus, which follows a muscle-sciatic nerve-spinal cord-brain route. Only 20% of the poliovirus population successfully moved from muscle to brain, and three barriers limiting viral trafficking were identified. First, using light-sensitive viruses, we found limited viral replication in peripheral neurons. Second, retrograde axonal transport of poliovirus in peripheral neurons was inefficient; however, the efficiency was increased upon muscle damage, which also increased the transport efficiency of a non-viral neural tracer, wheat germ agglutinin. Third, using susceptible interferon (IFN) alpha/beta receptor knockout mice, we demonstrated that the IFN response limited viral movement from the periphery to the brain. Surprisingly, the retrograde axonal transport barrier was equivalent in strength to the IFN barrier. Illustrating the importance of barriers created by the IFN response and inefficient axonal transport, IFN alpha/beta receptor knockout mice with muscle damage permitted 80% of the viral population to access the brain, and succumbed to disease three times faster than mice with intact barriers. These results suggest that multiple separate barriers limit poliovirus trafficking from peripheral neurons to the CNS, possibly explaining the rare incidence of paralytic poliomyelitis. This study identifies inefficient axonal transport as a substantial barrier to poliovirus trafficking in peripheral neurons, which may limit CNS access for other viruses.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Axonal Transport/immunology
- Central Nervous System/cytology
- Central Nervous System/immunology
- Central Nervous System/virology
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Injections, Intramuscular
- Interferon Type I/immunology
- Interferon Type I/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Muscle, Skeletal/injuries
- Muscle, Skeletal/innervation
- Muscle, Skeletal/virology
- Neurons/immunology
- Neurons/virology
- Poliomyelitis/immunology
- Poliomyelitis/physiopathology
- Poliomyelitis/virology
- Poliovirus/growth & development
- Poliovirus/immunology
- Poliovirus/metabolism
- Receptor, Interferon alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptor, Interferon alpha-beta/metabolism
- Receptors, Virus/genetics
- Receptors, Virus/metabolism
- Sciatic Nerve/cytology
- Sciatic Nerve/immunology
- Sciatic Nerve/virology
- Virus Replication/immunology
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- Karen Z. Lancaster
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Pfeiffer JK. Innate host barriers to viral trafficking and population diversity: lessons learned from poliovirus. Adv Virus Res 2010; 77:85-118. [PMID: 20951871 PMCID: PMC3234684 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-385034-8.00004-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Poliovirus is an error-prone enteric virus spread by the fecal-oral route and rarely invades the central nervous system (CNS). However, in the rare instances when poliovirus invades the CNS, the resulting damage to motor neurons is striking and often permanent. In the prevaccine era, it is likely that most individuals within an epidemic community were infected; however, only 0.5% of infected individuals developed paralytic poliomyelitis. Paralytic poliomyelitis terrified the public and initiated a huge research effort, which was rewarded with two outstanding vaccines. During research to develop the vaccines, many questions were asked: Why did certain people develop paralysis? How does the virus move from the gut to the CNS? What limits viral trafficking to the CNS in the vast majority of infected individuals? Despite over 100 years of poliovirus research, many of these questions remain unanswered. The goal of this chapter is to review our knowledge of how poliovirus moves within and between hosts, how host barriers limit viral movement, how viral population dynamics impact viral fitness and virulence, and to offer hypotheses to explain the rare incidence of paralytic poliovirus disease.
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- Julie K Pfeiffer
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Banks WA. Mouse models of neurological disorders: a view from the blood-brain barrier. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2009; 1802:881-8. [PMID: 19879356 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2009.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2009] [Revised: 10/20/2009] [Accepted: 10/23/2009] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The number of disease models that involve an aspect of blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysregulation have increased tremendously. The main factors contributing to this expansion have been an increased number of diseases in which the BBB is known to be involved, an increase in the known functions of the BBB, and an increase in the number of models and tools with which those diverse functions can be studied. In many cases, the BBB may be a target of disease; current thinking would include hypertensive encephalopathy and perhaps stroke in this category. Another category are those diseases in which special attributes of the BBB may predispose to disease; for example, the ability of a pathogen to cross the BBB often depends on the pathogen's ability to invoke transcytotic pathways in the brain endothelial or choroid plexus cell. Of special interest are those diseases in which the BBB may be the primary seat of disease or play a major role in the onset or progression of the disease. An increasing number of diseases are so categorized in which BBB dysfunction or dysregulation plays a major role; this review highlights such roles for the BBB including those proposed for Alzheimer's disease and obesity.
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- William A Banks
- GRECC, Veterans Affairs Medical Center-St. Louis and Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, 915 N. Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63106, USA.
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Ohka S, Sakai M, Bohnert S, Igarashi H, Deinhardt K, Schiavo G, Nomoto A. Receptor-dependent and -independent axonal retrograde transport of poliovirus in motor neurons. J Virol 2009; 83:4995-5004. [PMID: 19244317 PMCID: PMC2682071 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02225-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2008] [Accepted: 02/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Poliovirus (PV), when injected intramuscularly into the calf, is incorporated into the sciatic nerve and causes an initial paralysis of the inoculated limb in transgenic (Tg) mice carrying the human PV receptor (hPVR/CD155) gene. We have previously demonstrated that a fast retrograde axonal transport process is required for PV dissemination through the sciatic nerves of hPVR-Tg mice and that intramuscularly inoculated PV causes paralytic disease in an hPVR-dependent manner. Here we showed that hPVR-independent axonal transport of PV was observed in hPVR-Tg and non-Tg mice, indicating that several different pathways for PV axonal transport exist in these mice. Using primary motor neurons (MNs) isolated from these mice or rats, we demonstrated that the axonal transport of PV requires several kinetically different motor machineries and that fast transport relies on a system involving cytoplasmic dynein. Unexpectedly, the hPVR-independent axonal transport of PV was not observed in cultured MNs. Thus, PV transport machineries in cultured MNs and in vivo differ in their hPVR requirements. These results suggest that the axonal trafficking of PV is carried out by several distinct pathways and that MNs in culture and in the sciatic nerve in situ are intrinsically different in the uptake and axonal transport of PV.
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- Seii Ohka
- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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Making it to the synapse: measles virus spread in and among neurons. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2009; 330:3-30. [PMID: 19203102 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70617-5_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Measles virus (MV) is one of the most transmissible microorganisms known, continuing to result in extensive morbidity and mortality worldwide. While rare, MV can infect the human central nervous system, triggering fatal CNS diseases weeks to years after exposure. The advent of crucial laboratory tools to dissect MV neuropathogenesis, including permissive transgenic mouse models, the capacity to manipulate the viral genome using reverse genetics, and cell biology advances in understanding the processes that govern intracellular trafficking of viral components, have substantially clarified how MV infects, spreads, and persists in this unique cell population. This review highlights some of these technical advances, followed by a discussion of our present understanding of MV neuronal infection and transport. Because some of these processes may be shared among diverse viruses, comparisons are made to parallel studies with other neurotropic viruses. While a crystallized view of how the unique environment of the neuron affects MV replication, spread, and, ultimately, neuropathogenesis is not fully realized, the tools and ideas are in place for exciting advances in the coming years.
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Poliomyelitis has long served as a model for studies of viral pathogenesis, but there remain many important gaps in our understanding of this disease. It is the intent of this review to highlight these residual but important questions, in light of a possible future moratorium on research with polioviruses. Salient questions include: (1) What cells in the gastrointestinal tract are initially infected and act as the source of excreted virus? (2) What is the receptor used by mouse-adapted strains of poliovirus and how can some polioviruses use both mouse and primate receptors? (3) What determines species differences in susceptibility of the gastrointestinal tract to polioviruses? Why cannot PVR transgenic mice be infected by the natural enteric route? (4) Why are neuroadapted polioviruses unable to infect nonneural cells? (5) What is the role of postentry blocks in replication as determinants of neurovirulence? (6) What route(s) does poliovirus take to enter the central nervous system and how does it cross the blood-brain barrier? (7) Why does poliovirus preferentially attack lower motor neurons in contrast to many other neuronal types within the central nervous system? (8) Does cellular immunity play any role in recovery from acute infection or in vaccine-induced protection? (9) In which cells does poliovirus persist in patients with gamma-globulin deficiencies? (10) Is there any evidence that poliovirus genomes can persist in immunocompetent hosts? (11) Why has type 2 poliovirus been eradicated while types 1 and 3 have not? (12) Can transmission of vaccine-derived polioviruses be prevented with inactivated poliovirus vaccine? (13) What is the best strategy to control and eliminate vaccine-derived polioviruses?
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Kuss SK, Etheredge CA, Pfeiffer JK. Multiple host barriers restrict poliovirus trafficking in mice. PLoS Pathog 2008; 4:e1000082. [PMID: 18535656 PMCID: PMC2390757 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2008] [Accepted: 05/06/2008] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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RNA viruses such as poliovirus have high mutation rates, and a diverse viral population is likely required for full virulence. We previously identified limitations on poliovirus spread after peripheral injection of mice expressing the human poliovirus receptor (PVR), and we hypothesized that the host interferon response may contribute to the viral bottlenecks. Here, we examined poliovirus population bottlenecks in PVR mice and in PVR mice that lack the interferon alpha/beta receptor (PVR-IFNAR-/-), an important component of innate immunity. To monitor population dynamics, we developed a pool of ten marked polioviruses discriminated by a novel hybridization-based assay. Following intramuscular or intraperitoneal injection of the ten-virus pool, a major bottleneck was observed during transit to the brain in PVR mice, but was absent in PVR-IFNAR-/- mice, suggesting that the interferon response was a determinant of the peripheral site-to-brain bottleneck. Since poliovirus infects humans by the fecal-oral route, we tested whether bottlenecks exist after oral inoculation of PVR-IFNAR-/- mice. Despite the lack of a bottleneck following peripheral injection of PVR-IFNAR-/- mice, we identified major bottlenecks in orally inoculated animals, suggesting physical barriers may contribute to the oral bottlenecks. Interestingly, two of the three major bottlenecks we identified were partially overcome by pre-treating mice with dextran sulfate sodium, which damages the colonic epithelium. Overall, we found that viral trafficking from the gut to other body sites, including the CNS, is a very dynamic, stochastic process. We propose that multiple host barriers and the resulting limited poliovirus population diversity may help explain the rare occurrence of viral CNS invasion and paralytic poliomyelitis. These natural host barriers are likely to play a role in limiting the spread of many microbes.
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- Sharon K. Kuss
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Coyne CB, Kim KS, Bergelson JM. Poliovirus entry into human brain microvascular cells requires receptor-induced activation of SHP-2. EMBO J 2007; 26:4016-28. [PMID: 17717529 PMCID: PMC1994131 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2007] [Accepted: 07/23/2007] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Viruses use specific receptor molecules to bind selectively to target cells. Receptors have often been considered as mere docking sites, but they may also possess intrinsic signaling capacities that serve to prime the cell for entry and infection. Poliovirus (PV) initiates infection by binding to the PV receptor (PVR) and causes paralytic poliomyelitis by replicating within motor neurons of the brain and spinal cord. We have examined the process by which PV enters cultured human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC), an in vitro model of the blood-brain barrier. We found that PV enters HBMEC by dynamin-dependent caveolar endocytosis, and that entry depends on intracellular signals triggered by virus attachment to PVR. Tyrosine kinase and RhoA GTPase activation initiated by PVR ligation were both essential. Virus attachment also induced tyrosine phosphorylation of PVR; this permitted the association of PVR with SHP-2, a protein tyrosine phosphatase whose activation was required for entry and infection. The results indicate that receptor-induced signals promote virus entry and suggest a role for tyrosine phosphatases in viral pathogenesis.
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- Carolyn B Coyne
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Ohka S, Igarashi H, Nagata N, Sakai M, Koike S, Nochi T, Kiyono H, Nomoto A. Establishment of a poliovirus oral infection system in human poliovirus receptor-expressing transgenic mice that are deficient in alpha/beta interferon receptor. J Virol 2007; 81:7902-12. [PMID: 17507470 PMCID: PMC1951287 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02675-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2006] [Accepted: 05/08/2007] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Poliovirus (PV) is easily transferred to humans orally; however, no rodent model for oral infections has been developed because of the alimentary tract's low sensitivity to the virus. Here we showed that PV is inactivated by the low pH of the gastric contents in mice. The addition of 3% NaHCO3 to the viral inoculum increased the titer of virus reaching the small intestine through the stomach after intragastric inoculation of PV. Transgenic mice (Tg) carrying the human PV receptor (hPVR/CD155) gene and lacking the alpha/beta interferon receptor (IFNAR) gene (hPVR-Tg/IfnarKO) were sensitive to the oral administration of PV with 3% NaHCO3, whereas hPVR-Tg expressing IFNAR were much less sensitive. The virus was detected in the epithelia of the small intestine and proliferated in the alimentary tract of hPVR-Tg/IfnarKO. By the ninth day after the administration of a virulent PV, the mice had died. These results suggest that IFNAR plays an important role in determining permissivity in the alimentary tract as well as the generation of virus-specific immune responses to PV via the oral route. Thus, hPVR-Tg/IfnarKO are considered to be the first oral infection model for PV, although levels of anti-PV antibodies were not elevated dramatically in serum and intestinal secretions of surviving mice when hPVR-Tg/IfnarKO were administered an attenuated PV.
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- Seii Ohka
- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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De Jesus NH. Epidemics to eradication: the modern history of poliomyelitis. Virol J 2007; 4:70. [PMID: 17623069 PMCID: PMC1947962 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-4-70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2007] [Accepted: 07/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Poliomyelitis has afflicted humankind since antiquity, and for nearly a century now, we have known the causative agent, poliovirus. This pathogen is an enterovirus that in recent history has been the source of a great deal of human suffering. Although comparatively small, its genome is packed with sufficient information to make it a formidable pathogen. In the last 20 years the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has proven successful in greatly diminishing the number of cases worldwide but has encountered obstacles in its path which have made halting the transmission of wild polioviruses a practical impossibility. As we begin to realize that a change in strategy may be crucial in achieving success in this venture, it is imperative that we critically evaluate what is known about the molecular biology of this pathogen and the intricacies of its interaction with its host so that in future attempts we may better equipped to more effectively combat this important human pathogen.
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- Nidia H De Jesus
- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
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Chen CS, Yao YC, Lin SC, Lee YP, Wang YF, Wang JR, Liu CC, Lei HY, Yu CK. Retrograde axonal transport: a major transmission route of enterovirus 71 in mice. J Virol 2007; 81:8996-9003. [PMID: 17567704 PMCID: PMC1951457 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00236-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Inoculation of enterovirus 71 (EV71) by the oral (p.o.), intramuscular (i.m.), or intracranial route resulted in brain infection, flaccid paralysis, pulmonary dysfunction, and death of 7-day-old mice. The lag time of disease progression indicated that neuroinvasion from the inoculation sites was a prerequisite for the development of the clinical signs. Although EV71 p.o. inoculation led to a persistent viremia and a transient increase in blood-brain barrier permeability at the early stage of the infection, only low levels of virus, which led to neither severe infection nor clinical illness, could be detected in the brain, suggesting that hematogenous transport might not represent a major transmission route. In the spinal cord, following both p.o. and hind limb i.m. inoculation, the virus first appeared and increased rapidly in the lower segments, especially at the anterior horn areas, and then spread to the upper segments and brain in the presence of viremia. A reverse pattern, with the virus being first detected in the upper segment, was observed when the virus was i.m. inoculated in the forelimb. Colchicine, a fast axonal transport inhibitor, but not sciatic nerve transection reduced EV71 neuroinvasion in a dose-dependent manner, indicating a neuronal transmission of the virus.
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- Che-Szu Chen
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 70101, Republic of China
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González Durán E, del Angel RM, Salas Benito JS. In vitro interaction of poliovirus with cytoplasmic dynein. Intervirology 2007; 50:214-8. [PMID: 17283448 DOI: 10.1159/000099221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2006] [Accepted: 10/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Poliovirus (PV) enters the host by the oral route and can infect the central nervous system (CNS) by two mechanisms: crossing the blood-brain barrier and traveling along the nerves from the muscle to the spinal cord. In the latter mechanism, the PV receptor, CD155, and the motor protein, dynein, have been implicated in the transport of PV to the CNS. In this work we analyzed the possible interaction of PV with dynein. METHODS PV was bound to a Sepharose 4B beads and they were used to analyze the interaction of PV with cytoplasmic proteins from neuroblastoma cells by affinity chromatography and Western blot. RESULTS The interaction with cytoplasmic dynein was observed only when the Sepharose beads bound to PV were used and not in the control ones, where proteins from uninfected cells were coupled. CONCLUSION These preliminary results open the possibility that PV uses the dynein directly in its retrograde axonal transport.
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- Elizabeth González Durán
- Programa Institucional de Biomedicina Molecular, Escuela Nacional de Medicina y Homeopatía del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico D.F., Mexico
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Solomon T, Ooi MH, Mallewa M. Chapter 10 Viral infections of lower motor neurons. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2007; 82:179-206. [PMID: 18808895 DOI: 10.1016/s0072-9752(07)80013-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- Tom Solomon
- Viral CNS Infections Group, Divisions of Neurological Sciences and Medical Biology, and School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Ohka S. [Dissemination pathways for poliovirus cells to animals models]. Uirusu 2006; 56:51-8. [PMID: 17038812 DOI: 10.2222/jsv.56.51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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It is considered there are two main pathways for poliovirus dissemination towards the central nervous system in humans. One is the pathway through the blood brain barrier. The orally ingested virus invades into the blood circulation, and then the virus permeates into the central nervous system through the blood brain barrier. The other is the neural pathway. In this pathway, the intramuscularly-inoculated virus is transported through the axons from the synapse to the cell body in the central nervous system. We have developed the oral infection system using the mouse models. Moreover, we proposed the possibility that PV is transcytosed through the brain capillary epithelia in a specific manner. As for the neural pathway, we have proved that PV is endocytosed into CD155 containing vesicles and the vesicles are retrogradely transported in the axon of rat primary motor neuron. We have also shown that the cytoplasmic dynein takes part in the transport.
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- Seii Ohka
- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan.
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Pfeiffer JK, Kirkegaard K. Bottleneck-mediated quasispecies restriction during spread of an RNA virus from inoculation site to brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:5520-5. [PMID: 16567621 PMCID: PMC1414638 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0600834103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The amplification of RNA viruses such as poliovirus is associated with high error rates, and the resulting diversity likely facilitates viral survival within an infected host. However, within individual tissues of infected hosts, there may be barriers to viral spread that limit genome sampling. We tested whether poliovirus population diversity was maintained during viral spread to the brain of poliovirus receptor-expressing mice. Each of four restriction enzyme site-tagged viruses was shown to be able to replicate in the mouse brain. However, when infection was initiated by i.m., i.v., or i.p. routes, only a subset of the members of the injected pool was detectable in the brain. This jackpot effect was the result of a bottleneck in viral transit from the inoculation site to the brain. The bottleneck was difficult to overcome, requiring a 10(7) increase in viral inoculum to allow representation of all or most members of the infecting pool. Therefore, the bottleneck is not likely to be a physical barrier but an antiviral state induced by a founder virus. We suggest that the innate immune response can limit viral pathogenicity by limiting the number and therefore the diversity of viruses during spread to vulnerable tissues.
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- Julie K. Pfeiffer
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Racaniello VR. One hundred years of poliovirus pathogenesis. Virology 2006; 344:9-16. [PMID: 16364730 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2005] [Accepted: 09/10/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Poliovirus was first isolated nearly 100 years ago in a landmark experiment that established the viral etiology of poliomyelitis. This discovery stimulated investigation of the pathogenesis of poliomyelitis in many laboratories. Nearly 50 years later, when two effective poliovirus vaccines were developed, the impetus to study poliovirus pathogenesis waned. The identification of the cell receptor for poliovirus, CD155, and its use in the development of transgenic mice susceptible to poliovirus revived interest in understanding how the virus causes disease. Experiments in CD155 transgenic mice have provided new information on the initial sites of virus replication in the host, how the virus spreads to the central nervous system through the blood and by axonal transport, the determinants of viral tropism, and the basis for the attenuation phenotype of the Sabin vaccine strains. Despite these advances, our understanding of poliovirus pathogenesis is still incomplete. The dilemma is not how to answer the remaining questions, but whether there will be sufficient time to do so before global eradication of poliomyelitis leads to cessation of research on the disease.
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- Vincent R Racaniello
- Department of Microbiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Rae CS, Khor IW, Wang Q, Destito G, Gonzalez MJ, Singh P, Thomas DM, Estrada MN, Powell E, Finn MG, Manchester M. Systemic trafficking of plant virus nanoparticles in mice via the oral route. Virology 2005; 343:224-35. [PMID: 16185741 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2005] [Revised: 07/26/2005] [Accepted: 08/02/2005] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The plant virus, cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV), is increasingly being used as a nanoparticle platform for multivalent display of peptides. A growing variety of applications have employed the CPMV display technology including vaccines, antiviral therapeutics, nanoblock chemistry, and materials science. CPMV chimeras can be inexpensively produced from experimentally infected cowpea plants and are completely stable at 37 degrees C and low pH, suggesting that they could be used as edible or mucosally-delivered vaccines or therapeutics. However, the fate of CPMV particles in vivo, or following delivery via the oral route, is unknown. To address this question, we examined CPMV in vitro and in vivo. CPMV was shown to be stable under simulated gastric conditions in vitro. The pattern of localization of CPMV particles to mouse tissues following oral or intravenous dosing was then determined. For several days following oral or intravenous inoculation, CPMV was found in a wide variety of tissues throughout the body, including the spleen, kidney, liver, lung, stomach, small intestine, lymph nodes, brain, and bone marrow. CPMV particles were detected after cardiac perfusion, suggesting that the particles entered the tissues. This pattern was confirmed using methods to specifically detect the viral capsid proteins and the internal viral RNA. The stability of CPMV virions in the gastrointestinal tract followed by their systemic dissemination supports their use as orally bioavailable nanoparticles.
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- Chris S Rae
- Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences (CIMBio), The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Daley JK, Gechman LA, Skipworth J, Rall GF. Poliovirus replication and spread in primary neuron cultures. Virology 2005; 340:10-20. [PMID: 16009390 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.05.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2004] [Revised: 12/20/2004] [Accepted: 05/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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While some neurotropic viruses cause rapid central nervous system (CNS) disease upon entry into the brain parenchyma, other viruses that are cytolytic in the periphery either result in little neuropathology or are associated with a protracted course of CNS disease consistent with persistent infection. One such virus, poliovirus (PV), is an extremely lytic RNA virus that requires the expression of CD155, the poliovirus receptor (PVR), for infection. To compare the kinetics of PV infection in neuronal and non-neuronal cell types, primary hippocampal neurons and fibroblasts were isolated from CD155+ transgenic embryos and infected with the Mahoney and Sabin strains of PV. Despite similar levels of infection in these ex vivo cultures, PV-infected neurons produced 100-fold fewer infectious particles as compared to fibroblasts throughout infection, and death of PV-infected neurons was delayed approximately 48 h. Spread in neurons occurred primarily by trans-synaptic transmission and was CD155-dependent. Together, these results demonstrate that the magnitude and speed with which PV replication, spread, and subsequent cell death occur in neurons is decreased as compared to non-neuronal cells, implicating cell-specific effects on replication that may then influence viral pathogenesis.
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- John K Daley
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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Mueller S, Wimmer E, Cello J. Poliovirus and poliomyelitis: a tale of guts, brains, and an accidental event. Virus Res 2005; 111:175-93. [PMID: 15885840 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2005.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Nearly 100 years after its discovery poliovirus remains one of most thoroughly studied and best understood virus models for the molecular virologist. While poliovirus has been of vital importance for our insight into picornavirus biology at the cellular and biochemical level, it is ironic to note that, due to the early success in defeating poliomyelitis in the developed world through vaccination, many of the basic aspects of poliovirus pathogenesis remain poorly understood. This is chiefly due to the lack of an adequate and affordable animal model, save of old world monkeys. Fundamental questions, such as the identity of the target cells during the enteric phase of infection, or mechanisms of systemic spread are still unanswered. This review will attempt to summarize our current knowledge of the molecular biology of poliovirus, its pathogenesis, as well as recent advances in the areas of cell and tissue tropism and mechanisms of central nervous system invasion.
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- Steffen Mueller
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Ravits J. Sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a hypothesis of persistent (non-lytic) enteroviral infection. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 6:77-87. [PMID: 16036430 DOI: 10.1080/14660820510027026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Because of recently reported reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction evidence of enterovirus in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS) and because of newly available anti-enteroviral drugs binding enteroviral capsids, it is reasonable to re-formulate an enteroviral hypothesis of SALS using recent advances in molecular virology. Viral persistence is non-lytic and non-cytopathic infection that evades host's immune surveillance. Enteroviruses are known to cause persistent as well as lytic infection both in vitro and in vivo. Both virion as well as host factors modulate between persistent and lytic infection. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a process of active non-necrotic cell death. It has complex interplay with viruses and may be either promoted or opposed by them. Apoptosis is a major factor in motor neuron death in SALS. Viral tropism is the process by which viruses select and propagate to target cells. It is controlled by capsid conformation and surface receptors on host cells. Enteroviruses have a region on their capsids known as the canyon which docks on such receptors. Docking induces conformational changes of the capsid and genome release. Poliovirus, tropic for motor neurons, docks on the poliovirus receptor, about which much is known. The virus penetrates the motor system focally after crossing either the blood-muscle or the blood-brain barriers. It propagates bidirectionally along axons and synapses to contiguous motor neurons, upper as well as lower, which sequester infection and create avenues for spread over long distances. If chronic and persistent rather than acute and lytic, such viruses trafficking in a finite system of non-dividing cells and inducing apoptosis would cause cell death that summates linearly rather than exponentially. Taken together, these explain signature clinical features of SALS - focal onset weakness, contiguous or regional spread of weakness, confinement to upper and lower motor neurons, and linear rates of progression. The hypothesis predicts the following testable investigations: 1) viral detection may be possible by applying amplification technology to optimally acquired nervous tissue processed by laser microdissection; 2) genetic susceptibility factors such as cell surface receptor polymorphisms may combine with sporadic exposure and chance penetration of the motor system in SALS; 3) a transgenic animal model might be created by inserting such genetic factors into an animal host and inoculating intramuscularly rather than intracerebrally biochemical fractions of SALS motor neurons at vulnerable periods in the developmental life cycle of the transgenic host; and 4) continual long-term administration of anti-enteroviral agents called capsid-binding compounds which stabilize capsids and prevent genome release might be efficacious.
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- John Ravits
- Neurology Section, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Neurogenomics Laboratory, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98111, USA.
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Ida-Hosonuma M, Iwasaki T, Yoshikawa T, Nagata N, Sato Y, Sata T, Yoneyama M, Fujita T, Taya C, Yonekawa H, Koike S. The alpha/beta interferon response controls tissue tropism and pathogenicity of poliovirus. J Virol 2005; 79:4460-9. [PMID: 15767446 PMCID: PMC1061561 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.7.4460-4469.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Poliovirus selectively replicates in neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, although poliovirus receptor (PVR) expression is observed in both the target and nontarget tissues in humans and transgenic mice expressing human PVR (PVR-transgenic mice). We assessed the role of alpha/beta interferon (IFN) in determining tissue tropism by comparing the pathogenesis of the virulent Mahoney strain in PVR-transgenic mice and PVR-transgenic mice deficient in the alpha/beta IFN receptor gene (PVR-transgenic/Ifnar knockout mice). PVR-transgenic/Ifnar knockout mice showed increased susceptibility to poliovirus. After intravenous inoculation, severe lesions positive for the poliovirus antigen were detected in the liver, spleen, and pancreas in addition to the central nervous system. These results suggest that the alpha/beta IFN system plays an important role in determining tissue tropism by protecting nontarget tissues that are potentially susceptible to infection. We subsequently examined the expression of IFN and IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) in the PVR-transgenic mice. In the nontarget tissues, ISGs were expressed even in the noninfected state, and the expression level increased soon after poliovirus infection. On the contrary, in the target tissues, ISG expression was low in the noninfected state and sufficient response after poliovirus infection was not observed. The results suggest that the unequal IFN response is one of the important determinants for the differential susceptibility of tissues to poliovirus. We consider that poliovirus replication was observed in the nontarget tissues of PVR-transgenic/Ifnar knockout mice because the IFN response was null in all tissues.
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Affiliation(s)
- Miki Ida-Hosonuma
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research, Tokyo 183-8526, Japan
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