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Tan N, Chen C, Ren Y, Huang R, Zhu Z, Xu K, Yang X, Yang J, Yuan L. Nucleotide at position 66 of NS2A in Japanese encephalitis virus is associated with the virulence and proliferation of virus. Virus Genes 2024; 60:9-17. [PMID: 37938470 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-023-02036-5] [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: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
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Most wild strains of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) produce NS1' protein, which plays an important role in viral infection and immune escape. The G66A nucleotide mutation in NS2A gene of the wild strain SA14 prevented the ribosomal frameshift that prevented the production of NS1' protein, thus reduced the virulence. In this study, the 66th nucleotide of the NS2A gene of SA14 was mutated into A, U or C, respectively. Both the G66U and G66C mutations cause the E22D mutation of the NS2A protein. Subsequently, the expression of NS1' protein, plaque size, replication ability, and virulence to mice of the three mutant strains were examined. The results showed that the three mutant viruses could not express NS1' protein, and their proliferation ability in nerve cells and virulence to mice were significantly reduced. In addition, the SA14(G66C) was less virulent than the other two mutated viruses. Our results indicate that only when G is the 66th nucleotide of NS2A, the JEV can produce NS1' protein, which affects the virulence.
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- Ning Tan
- Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Jintang First People's Hospital, West China Hospital Sichuan University JinTang Hospital, Chengdu, 610400, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China.
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Evidence that untranslated genomic sequences are key determinants of insect-specific flavivirus host restriction. Virology 2022; 574:102-114. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2022.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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West Nile Virus: An Update on Pathobiology, Epidemiology, Diagnostics, Control and "One Health" Implications. Pathogens 2020; 9:pathogens9070589. [PMID: 32707644 PMCID: PMC7400489 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens9070589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2020] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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West Nile virus (WNV) is an important zoonotic flavivirus responsible for mild fever to severe, lethal neuroinvasive disease in humans, horses, birds, and other wildlife species. Since its discovery, WNV has caused multiple human and animal disease outbreaks in all continents, except Antarctica. Infections are associated with economic losses, mainly due to the cost of treatment of infected patients, control programmes, and loss of animals and animal products. The pathogenesis of WNV has been extensively investigated in natural hosts as well as in several animal models, including rodents, lagomorphs, birds, and reptiles. However, most of the proposed pathogenesis hypotheses remain contentious, and much remains to be elucidated. At the same time, the unavailability of specific antiviral treatment or effective and safe vaccines contribute to the perpetuation of the disease and regular occurrence of outbreaks in both endemic and non-endemic areas. Moreover, globalisation and climate change are also important drivers of the emergence and re-emergence of the virus and disease. Here, we give an update of the pathobiology, epidemiology, diagnostics, control, and “One Health” implications of WNV infection and disease.
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Zhang Q, Li N, Deng C, Zhang Z, Li X, Yoshii K, Ye H, Zhang B. Trans Complementation of Replication-defective Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever Virus for Antiviral Study. Virol Sin 2019; 34:412-422. [PMID: 30949960 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-019-00109-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus (OHFV) is a tick-borne flavivirus classified as a biosafety level-4 (BSL4) pathogen. Studies of OHFV are restricted to be conducted within BSL4 laboratories. Currently, no commercial vaccines or antiviral drugs are available against OHFV infection. In this study, we recovered a replication-deficient OHFV with an NS1 deletion (OHFV-ΔNS1) and reporter virus replacing NS1 with the Gaussia luciferase (Gluc) (OHFV-ΔNS1-Gluc). Both the defective OHFV-ΔNS1 and OHFV-ΔNS1-Gluc virus could only replicate efficiently in the BHK21 cell line expressing NS1 (BHK21NS1) but not in naïve BHK21 cells. The Gluc reporter gene of OHFV-ΔNS1-Gluc virus was maintained stably after serial passaging of BHK21NS1 cells and was used to surrogate the replication of OHFV. Using NITD008, OHFV-ΔNS1-Gluc virus was validated for antiviral screening, and high-throughput screening parameters were optimized in a 96-well plate format with a calculated Z' value above 0.5. The OHFV-ΔNS1-Gluc reporter virus is a powerful tool for antiviral screening as well as viral replication and pathogenesis studies in BSL2 laboratories.
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- Qiuyan Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China
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- Laboratory of Public Health, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0818, Japan
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China.
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Japanese Encephalitis Virus NS1' Protein Antagonizes Interferon Beta Production. Virol Sin 2018; 33:515-523. [PMID: 30542978 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-018-0067-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne virus and the major cause of viral encephalitis in Asia. NS1', a 52-amino acid C-terminal extension of NS1, is generated with a -1 programmed ribosomal frameshift and is only present in members of the Japanese encephalitis serogroup of flaviviruses. Previous studies demonstrated that NS1' plays a vital role in virulence, but the mechanism is unclear. In this study, an NS1' defected (rG66A) virus was generated. We found that rG66A virus was less virulent than its parent virus (pSA14) in wild-type mice. However, similar mortality caused by the two viruses was observed in an IFNAR knockout mouse model. Moreover, we found that rG66A virus induced a greater type I interferon (IFN) response than that by pSA14, and JEV NS1' significantly inhibited the production of IFN-β and IFN-stimulated genes. Taken together, our results reveal that NS1' plays a vital role in blocking type I IFN production to help JEV evade antiviral immunity and benefit viral replication.
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Černý J, Selinger M, Palus M, Vavrušková Z, Tykalová H, Bell-Sakyi L, Štěrba J, Grubhoffer L, Růžek D. Expression of a second open reading frame present in the genome of tick-borne encephalitis virus strain Neudoerfl is not detectable in infected cells. Virus Genes 2016; 52:309-16. [PMID: 26924586 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-015-1273-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2015] [Accepted: 12/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A short upstream open reading frame (uORF) was recently identified in the 5' untranslated region of some tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) strains. However, it is not known if the peptide encoded by TBEV uORF (TuORF) is expressed in infected cells. Here we show that TuORF forms three phylogenetically separated clades which are typical of European, Siberian, and Far-Eastern TBEV subtypes. Analysis of selection pressure acting on the TuORF area showed that it is under positive selection pressure. Theoretically, TuORF may code for a short hydrophobic peptide embedded in a biological membrane. However, expression of TuORF was detectable neither by immunoblotting in tick and mammalian cell lines infected with TBEV nor by immunofluorescence in TBEV-infected mammalian cell lines. These results support the idea that TuORF is not expressed in TBEV-infected cell or expressed in undetectably low concentrations. Therefore we can assume that TuORF has either minor or no biological role in the TBEV life cycle.
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- Jiří Černý
- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. .,Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. .,Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 296/70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.,Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 296/70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.,Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 296/70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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Kim JK, Kim JM, Song BH, Yun SI, Yun GN, Byun SJ, Lee YM. Profiling of viral proteins expressed from the genomic RNA of Japanese encephalitis virus using a panel of 15 region-specific polyclonal rabbit antisera: implications for viral gene expression. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0124318. [PMID: 25915765 PMCID: PMC4410938 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2015] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, is closely related to West Nile (WN), yellow fever (YF), and dengue (DEN) viruses. Its plus-strand genomic RNA carries a single open reading frame encoding a polyprotein that is cleaved into three structural (C, prM/M, and E) and at least seven nonstructural (NS1/NS1', NS2A, NS2B, NS3, NS4A, NS4B, and NS5) proteins, based on previous work with WNV, YFV, and DENV. Here, we aimed to profile experimentally all the viral proteins found in JEV-infected cells. We generated a collection of 15 JEV-specific polyclonal antisera covering all parts of the viral protein-coding regions, by immunizing rabbits with 14 bacterially expressed glutathione-S-transferase fusion proteins (for all nine viral proteins except NS2B) or with a chemically synthesized oligopeptide (for NS2B). In total lysates of JEV-infected BHK-21 cells, immunoblotting with these antisera revealed: (i) three mature structural proteins (~12-kDa C, ~8-kDa M, and ~53-kDa E), a precursor of M (~24-kDa prM) and three other M-related proteins (~10-14 kDa); (ii) the predicted ~45-kDa NS1 and its frameshift product, ~58-kDa NS1', with no evidence of the predicted ~25-kDa NS2A; (iii) the predicted but hardly detectable ~14-kDa NS2B and an unexpected but predominant ~12-kDa NS2B-related protein; (iv) the predicted ~69-kDa NS3 plus two major cleavage products (~34-kDa NS3N-term and ~35-kDa NS3C-term), together with at least nine minor proteins of ~16-52 kDa; (v) the predicted ~14-kDa NS4A; (vi) two NS4B-related proteins (~27-kDa NS4B and ~25-kDa NS4B'); and (vii) the predicted ~103-kDa NS5 plus at least three other NS5-related proteins (~15 kDa, ~27 kDa, and ~90 kDa). Combining these data with confocal microscopic imaging of the proteins' intracellular localization, our study is the first to provide a solid foundation for the study of JEV gene expression, which is crucial for elucidating the regulatory mechanisms of JEV genome replication and pathobiology.
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- Jin-Kyoung Kim
- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea
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- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America
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- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea
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- Animal Biotechnology Division, Korea National Institute of Animal Science, Suwon, South Korea
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- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America
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Huhtamo E, Cook S, Moureau G, Uzcátegui NY, Sironen T, Kuivanen S, Putkuri N, Kurkela S, Harbach RE, Firth AE, Vapalahti O, Gould EA, de Lamballerie X. Novel flaviviruses from mosquitoes: mosquito-specific evolutionary lineages within the phylogenetic group of mosquito-borne flaviviruses. Virology 2014; 464-465:320-329. [PMID: 25108382 PMCID: PMC4170750 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2014] [Revised: 03/07/2014] [Accepted: 07/01/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Novel flaviviruses that are genetically related to pathogenic mosquito-borne flaviviruses (MBFV) have been isolated from mosquitoes in various geographical locations, including Finland. We isolated and characterized another novel virus of this group from Finnish mosquitoes collected in 2007, designated as Ilomantsi virus (ILOV). Unlike the MBFV that infect both vertebrates and mosquitoes, the MBFV-related viruses appear to be specific to mosquitoes similar to the insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs). In this overview of MBFV-related viruses we conclude that they differ from the ISFs genetically and antigenically. Phylogenetic analyses separated the MBFV-related viruses isolated in Africa, the Middle East and South America from those isolated in Europe and Asia. Serological cross-reactions of MBFV-related viruses with other flaviviruses and their potential for vector-borne transmission require further characterization. The divergent MBFV-related viruses are probably significantly under sampled to date and provide new information on the variety, properties and evolution of vector-borne flaviviruses. Mosquito-borne flavivirus-related viruses were isolated from Finnish mosquitoes. Isolates were reactive with flavivirus antibodies but appeared mosquito-specific. Sequence analysis identified related viruses from different parts of the world. These viruses represent unique properties among the mosquito-borne flavivirus group.
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- Eili Huhtamo
- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
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- UMR D 190 "Emergence des Pathologies Virales", Aix Marseille University, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, Marseille 13005, France
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- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Virology and Immunology, Helsinki University Central Hospital Laboratory (HUSLAB), P.O. Box 400, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00029 HUS, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
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- Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QP, United Kingdom
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- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Virology and Immunology, Helsinki University Central Hospital Laboratory (HUSLAB), P.O. Box 400, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00029 HUS, Helsinki, Finland; Division of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- UMR D 190 "Emergence des Pathologies Virales", Aix Marseille University, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, Marseille 13005, France
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- UMR D 190 "Emergence des Pathologies Virales", Aix Marseille University, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, Marseille 13005, France
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Mlera L, Melik W, Bloom ME. The role of viral persistence in flavivirus biology. Pathog Dis 2014; 71:137-63. [PMID: 24737600 PMCID: PMC4154581 DOI: 10.1111/2049-632x.12178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2014] [Revised: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 04/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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In nature, vector borne flaviviruses are persistently cycled between either the tick or mosquito vector and small mammals such as rodents, skunks, and swine. These viruses account for considerable human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Increasing and substantial evidence of viral persistence in humans, which includes the isolation of RNA by RT PCR and infectious virus by culture, continues to be reported. Viral persistence can also be established in vitro in various human, animal, arachnid, and insect cell lines in culture. Although some research has focused on the potential roles of defective virus particles, evasion of the immune response through the manipulation of autophagy and/or apoptosis, the precise mechanism of flavivirus persistence is still not well understood. We propose additional research for further understanding of how viral persistence is established in different systems. Avenues for additional studies include determining whether the multifunctional flavivirus protein NS5 has a role in viral persistence, the development of relevant animal models of viral persistence, and investigating the host responses that allow vector borne flavivirus replication without detrimental effects on infected cells. Such studies might shed more light on the viral–host relationships and could be used to unravel the mechanisms for establishment of persistence. Persistent infections by vector borne flaviviruses are an important, but inadequately studied topic.
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- Luwanika Mlera
- Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Laboratory of Virology, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA
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Replication cycle and molecular biology of the West Nile virus. Viruses 2013; 6:13-53. [PMID: 24378320 PMCID: PMC3917430 DOI: 10.3390/v6010013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2013] [Revised: 12/12/2013] [Accepted: 12/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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West Nile virus (WNV) is a member of the genus Flavivirus in the family Flaviviridae. Flaviviruses replicate in the cytoplasm of infected cells and modify the host cell environment. Although much has been learned about virion structure and virion-endosomal membrane fusion, the cell receptor(s) used have not been definitively identified and little is known about the early stages of the virus replication cycle. Members of the genus Flavivirus differ from members of the two other genera of the family by the lack of a genomic internal ribosomal entry sequence and the creation of invaginations in the ER membrane rather than double-membrane vesicles that are used as the sites of exponential genome synthesis. The WNV genome 3' and 5' sequences that form the long distance RNA-RNA interaction required for minus strand initiation have been identified and contact sites on the 5' RNA stem loop for NS5 have been mapped. Structures obtained for many of the viral proteins have provided information relevant to their functions. Viral nonstructural protein interactions are complex and some may occur only in infected cells. Although interactions between many cellular proteins and virus components have been identified, the functions of most of these interactions have not been delineated.
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Muller DA, Young PR. The flavivirus NS1 protein: molecular and structural biology, immunology, role in pathogenesis and application as a diagnostic biomarker. Antiviral Res 2013; 98:192-208. [PMID: 23523765 DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 363] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2013] [Revised: 03/02/2013] [Accepted: 03/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The flavivirus nonstructural glycoprotein NS1 is an enigmatic protein whose structure and mechanistic function have remained somewhat elusive ever since it was first reported in 1970 as a viral antigen circulating in the sera of dengue-infected patients. All flavivirus NS1 genes share a high degree of homology, encoding a 352-amino-acid polypeptide that has a molecular weight of 46-55 kDa, depending on its glycosylation status. NS1 exists in multiple oligomeric forms and is found in different cellular locations: a cell membrane-bound form in association with virus-induced intracellular vesicular compartments, on the cell surface and as a soluble secreted hexameric lipoparticle. Intracellular NS1 co-localizes with dsRNA and other components of the viral replication complex and plays an essential cofactor role in replication. Although this makes NS1 an ideal target for inhibitor design, the precise nature of its cofactor function has yet to be elucidated. A plethora of potential interacting partners have been identified, particularly for the secreted form of NS1, with many being implicated in immune evasion strategies. Secreted and cell-surface-associated NS1 are highly immunogenic and both the proteins themselves and the antibodies they elicit have been implicated in the seemingly contradictory roles of protection and pathogenesis in the infected host. Finally, NS1 is also an important biomarker for early diagnosis of disease. In this article, we provide an overview of these somewhat disparate areas of research, drawing together the wealth of data generated over more than 40 years of study of this fascinating protein.
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- David A Muller
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Ye Q, Li XF, Zhao H, Li SH, Deng YQ, Cao RY, Song KY, Wang HJ, Hua RH, Yu YX, Zhou X, Qin ED, Qin CF. A single nucleotide mutation in NS2A of Japanese encephalitis-live vaccine virus (SA14-14-2) ablates NS1' formation and contributes to attenuation. J Gen Virol 2012; 93:1959-1964. [PMID: 22739060 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.043844-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Japanese encephalitis (JE) remains the leading cause of viral encephalitis in the Asia-Pacific region, and the live vaccine SA14-14-2 is currently recommended by WHO and widely used in Asian countries with a good safety and efficacy profile. In this study, we demonstrated that SA14-14-2 failed to produce NS1', the larger NS1-related protein, compared with its parental strain SA14 in various cells. Sequence analysis and secondary structure prediction identified a single silent mutation G66A in the NS2A-coding region of SA14-14-2 destabilized the conserved pseudoknot structure, which was associated with a -1 ribosomal frame shift event. Using reverse genetic technology and animal study, we provided solid evidence that this single silent mutation G66A in the NS2A gene abolished the production of NS1' in vitro and reduced neurovirulence and neuroinvasiveness in mice. These findings provide critical information in understanding the molecular mechanism of JE vaccine attenuation and is critical for JE vaccine quality control.
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- Qing Ye
- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- School of Medicine Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150001, PR China
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- National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing 100050, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, PR China
- Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, PR China
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Sun J, Yu Y, Deubel V. Japanese encephalitis virus NS1' protein depends on pseudoknot secondary structure and is cleaved by caspase during virus infection and cell apoptosis. Microbes Infect 2012; 14:930-40. [PMID: 22504173 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2012.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2011] [Revised: 03/15/2012] [Accepted: 03/19/2012] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a flavivirus with a complex life cycle involving mosquito vectors that mainly target birds and pigs, and causes severe encephalitis in children in Asia. Neurotropic flaviviruses of the JEV serogroup have a particular characteristic of expressing a unique nonstructural NS1' protein, which is a prolongation of NS1 at the C terminus by 52 amino acids derived from a pseudoknot-driven-1 translation frameshift. Protein NS1' is associated with virus neuro-invasiveness. In this study, the need of the pseudoknot structure for NS1' synthesis was confirmed. By using a specific antibody against the prolonged peptide, NS1' was found to be absent from the JEV SA14-14-2 vaccine strain, resulting from a single nucleotide silent mutation in the pseudoknot. A partial cleavage of NS1' at a specific site of its C-terminal appendix recognized by caspases and inhibited by caspase inhibitors suggests a unique feature of intracellular NS1'.
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- Jin Sun
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology & Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200025, China
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Lee TH, Song BH, Yun SI, Woo HR, Lee YM, Diamond MS, Chung KM. A cross-protective mAb recognizes a novel epitope within the flavivirus NS1 protein. J Gen Virol 2011; 93:20-26. [PMID: 21918007 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.036640-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Despite a resurgence of flavivirus infections worldwide, no approved therapeutic agent exists for any member of the genus. While cross-reactive antibodies with therapeutic potential against flaviviruses have been generated, the majority of them are anti-E antibodies with the potential to cause antibody-dependent enhancement of flavivirus infection and disease. We described previously mAbs against the non-structural NS1 protein of the West Nile virus (WNV) that were protective in mice when administered pre- or post-infection of WNV. Here, we demonstrate that one of these mAbs (16NS1) cross-reacted with Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and exhibited protective activity against a lethal JEV infection. Overlapping peptide mapping analysis combined with site-specific mutations identified a novel epitope ¹¹⁶KAWGKSILFA¹²⁵ and critical amino acid residues (¹¹⁸W and ¹²²I) for 16NS1 mAb binding. These results may facilitate the development of a broadly therapeutic mAb that lacks enhancing potential and/or subunit-based vaccine against flaviviruses that target the NS1 protein.
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- Tae Hee Lee
- Institute for Medical Science, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Chonju, Chonbuk 561-180, Republic of Korea.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Chonju, Chonbuk 561-180, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences and Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR), College of Agriculture, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-4815, USA.,Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361-763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences and Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR), College of Agriculture, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-4815, USA.,Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361-763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences and Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR), College of Agriculture, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-4815, USA.,Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361-763, Republic of Korea
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- Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Institute for Medical Science, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Chonju, Chonbuk 561-180, Republic of Korea.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Chonju, Chonbuk 561-180, Republic of Korea
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A short N-terminal peptide motif on flavivirus nonstructural protein NS1 modulates cellular targeting and immune recognition. J Virol 2010; 84:9516-32. [PMID: 20592095 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00775-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Flavivirus NS1 is a versatile nonstructural glycoprotein, with intracellular NS1 functioning as an essential cofactor for viral replication and cell surface and secreted NS1 antagonizing complement activation. Even though NS1 has multiple functions that contribute to virulence, the genetic determinants that regulate the spatial distribution of NS1 in cells among different flaviviruses remain uncharacterized. Here, by creating a panel of West Nile virus-dengue virus (WNV-DENV) NS1 chimeras and site-specific mutants, we identified a novel, short peptide motif immediately C-terminal to the signal sequence cleavage position that regulates its transit time through the endoplasmic reticulum and differentially directs NS1 for secretion or plasma membrane expression. Exchange of two amino acids within this motif reciprocally changed the cellular targeting pattern of DENV or WNV NS1. For WNV, this substitution also modulated infectivity and antibody-induced phagocytosis of infected cells. Analysis of a mutant lacking all three conserved N-linked glycosylation sites revealed an independent requirement of N-linked glycans for secretion but not for plasma membrane expression of WNV NS1. Collectively, our experiments define the requirements for cellular targeting of NS1, with implications for the protective host responses, immune antagonism, and association with the host cell sorting machinery. These studies also suggest a link between the effects of NS1 on viral replication and the levels of secreted or cell surface NS1.
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Firth AE, Blitvich BJ, Wills NM, Miller CL, Atkins JF. Evidence for ribosomal frameshifting and a novel overlapping gene in the genomes of insect-specific flaviviruses. Virology 2010; 399:153-166. [PMID: 20097399 PMCID: PMC2830293 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.12.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2009] [Revised: 12/15/2009] [Accepted: 12/22/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Flaviviruses have a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome of ∼11 kb, encoding a large polyprotein that is cleaved to produce ∼10 mature proteins. Cell fusing agent virus, Kamiti River virus, Culex flavivirus and several recently discovered flaviviruses have no known vertebrate host and apparently infect only insects. We present compelling bioinformatic evidence for a 253–295 codon overlapping gene (designated fifo) conserved throughout these insect-specific flaviviruses and immunofluorescent detection of its product. Fifo overlaps the NS2A/NS2B coding sequence in the − 1/+ 2 reading frame and is most likely expressed as a trans-frame fusion protein via ribosomal frameshifting at a conserved GGAUUUY slippery heptanucleotide with 3′-adjacent RNA secondary structure (which stimulates efficient frameshifting in vitro). The discovery bears striking parallels to the recently discovered ribosomal frameshifting site in the NS2A coding sequence of the Japanese encephalitis serogroup of flaviviruses and suggests that programmed ribosomal frameshifting may be more widespread in flaviviruses than currently realized.
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- Andrew E Firth
- BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
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- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA.
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- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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- BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA.
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Whiteman MC, Li L, Wicker JA, Kinney RM, Huang C, Beasley DW, Chung KM, Diamond MS, Solomon T, Barrett AD. Development and characterization of non-glycosylated E and NS1 mutant viruses as a potential candidate vaccine for West Nile virus. Vaccine 2010; 28:1075-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.10.112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2009] [Revised: 10/15/2009] [Accepted: 10/19/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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NS1' of flaviviruses in the Japanese encephalitis virus serogroup is a product of ribosomal frameshifting and plays a role in viral neuroinvasiveness. J Virol 2009; 84:1641-7. [PMID: 19906906 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01979-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Flavivirus NS1 is a nonstructural protein involved in virus replication and regulation of the innate immune response. Interestingly, a larger NS1-related protein, NS1', is often detected during infection with the members of the Japanese encephalitis virus serogroup of flaviviruses. However, how NS1' is made and what role it performs in the viral life cycle have not been determined. Here we provide experimental evidence that NS1' is the product of a -1 ribosomal frameshift event that occurs at a conserved slippery heptanucleotide motif located near the beginning of the NS2A gene and is stimulated by a downstream RNA pseudoknot structure. Using site-directed mutagenesis of these sequence elements in an infectious clone of the Kunjin subtype of West Nile virus, we demonstrate that NS1' plays a role in viral neuroinvasiveness.
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Firth AE, Atkins JF. A conserved predicted pseudoknot in the NS2A-encoding sequence of West Nile and Japanese encephalitis flaviviruses suggests NS1' may derive from ribosomal frameshifting. Virol J 2009; 6:14. [PMID: 19196463 PMCID: PMC2657137 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-6-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2008] [Accepted: 02/05/2009] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Japanese encephalitis, West Nile, Usutu and Murray Valley encephalitis viruses form a tight subgroup within the larger Flavivirus genus. These viruses utilize a single-polyprotein expression strategy, resulting in ~10 mature proteins. Plotting the conservation at synonymous sites along the polyprotein coding sequence reveals strong conservation peaks at the very 5' end of the coding sequence, and also at the 5' end of the sequence encoding the NS2A protein. Such peaks are generally indicative of functionally important non-coding sequence elements. The second peak corresponds to a predicted stable pseudoknot structure whose biological importance is supported by compensatory mutations that preserve the structure. The pseudoknot is preceded by a conserved slippery heptanucleotide (Y CCU UUU), thus forming a classical stimulatory motif for -1 ribosomal frameshifting. We hypothesize, therefore, that the functional importance of the pseudoknot is to stimulate a portion of ribosomes to shift -1 nt into a short (45 codon), conserved, overlapping open reading frame, termed foo. Since cleavage at the NS1-NS2A boundary is known to require synthesis of NS2A in cis, the resulting transframe fusion protein is predicted to be NS1-NS2AN-term-FOO. We hypothesize that this may explain the origin of the previously identified NS1 'extension' protein in JEV-group flaviviruses, known as NS1'.
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- Andrew E Firth
- BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
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Kitai Y, Shoda M, Kondo T, Konishi E. Epitope-blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to differentiate west nile virus from Japanese encephalitis virus infections in equine sera. CLINICAL AND VACCINE IMMUNOLOGY : CVI 2007; 14:1024-31. [PMID: 17596430 PMCID: PMC2044481 DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00051-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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West Nile virus (WNV) is now widely distributed worldwide, except in most areas of Asia where Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is distributed. Considering the movement and migration of reservoir birds, there is concern that WNV may be introduced in Asian countries. Although manuals and guidelines for serological tests have been created in Japan in preparedness for the introduction of WNV, differential diagnosis between WNV and JEV may be complicated by antigenic cross-reactivities between these flaviviruses. Here, we generated a monoclonal antibody specific for the nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) of WNV and established an epitope-blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that can differentiate WNV from JEV infections in horse sera. Under conditions well suited for our assay system, samples collected from 95 horses in Japan (regarded as negative for WNV antibodies), including those collected from horses naturally infected with JEV, showed a mean inhibition value of 8.2% and a standard deviation (SD) of 6.5%. However, inhibition values obtained with serum used as a positive control (obtained after 28 days from a horse experimentally infected with WNV) in nine separate experiments showed a mean of 54.4% and an SD of 7.1%. We tentatively determined 27.6% (mean + 3 x SD obtained with 95 negative samples) as the cutoff value to differentiate positive from negative samples. Under this criterion, two horses experimentally infected with WNV were diagnosed as positive at 12 and 14 days, respectively, after infection.
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- Yoko Kitai
- Department of Health Sciences, Kobe University School of Medicine, 7-10-2 Tomogaoka, Suma-ku, Kobe 654-0142, Japan
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Clark DC, Lobigs M, Lee E, Howard MJ, Clark K, Blitvich BJ, Hall RA. In situ reactions of monoclonal antibodies with a viable mutant of Murray Valley encephalitis virus reveal an absence of dimeric NS1 protein. J Gen Virol 2007; 88:1175-1183. [PMID: 17374761 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82609-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Studies on the NS1 protein of flaviviruses have concluded that formation of a stable homodimer is required for virus replication. However, previous work has reported that substitution of a conserved proline by leucine at residue 250 in NS1 of Kunjin virus (KUNV) eliminated dimerization, but allowed virus replication to continue. To assess whether this substitution has similar effects on other flaviviruses, it was introduced into an infectious clone of Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV). Consistent with studies of KUNV, the mutant virus (MVEV(NS1-250Leu)) produced high levels of monomeric NS1 and the NS1 homodimer could not be detected. In contrast, wild-type MVEV cultures contained predominantly dimeric NS1. Retarded virus growth in Vero cells and loss of neuroinvasiveness for weanling mice revealed further similarities between MVEV(NS1-250Leu) and the corresponding KUNV mutant. To confirm that the lack of detection of dimeric NS1 in mutant virus samples was not due to denaturation of unstable dimers during Western blotting, a mAb (2E3) specific for the MVEV NS1 homodimer was produced. When NS1 protein was fixed in situ in mammalian and arthropod cells infected with wild-type or mutant virus, 2E3 reacted strongly with the former, but not the latter. These results confirmed that Pro(250) in NS1 is important for dimerization and that substitution of this residue by leucine represents a conserved marker of attenuation for viruses of the Japanese encephalitis virus serocomplex. The inability to detect dimeric NS1 in supernatant or cell monolayers of cultures productively infected with mutant virus also suggests that dimerization of the protein may not be essential for virus replication.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Antibodies, Viral/metabolism
- Arthropods
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Dimerization
- Disease Models, Animal
- Encephalitis Virus, Murray Valley/genetics
- Encephalitis Virus, Murray Valley/immunology
- Encephalitis Virus, Murray Valley/pathogenicity
- Encephalitis Virus, Murray Valley/physiology
- Encephalitis, Arbovirus/virology
- Flavivirus
- Mice
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Vero Cells
- Viral Nonstructural Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Nonstructural Proteins/genetics
- Viral Nonstructural Proteins/immunology
- Viral Nonstructural Proteins/metabolism
- Virus Replication
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- David C Clark
- School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Division of Immunology and Cell Biology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Division of Immunology and Cell Biology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
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- School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
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- School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Tzeng WP, Frey TK. C-E1 fusion protein synthesized by rubella virus DI RNAs maintained during serial passage. Virology 2006; 356:198-207. [PMID: 16938325 PMCID: PMC2694048 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.07.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2006] [Revised: 06/23/2006] [Accepted: 07/13/2006] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Rubella virus (RUB) replicons are derivatives of the RUB infectious cDNA clone that retain the nonstructural open reading frame (NS-ORF) that encodes the replicase proteins but not the structural protein ORF (SP-ORF) that encodes the virion proteins. RUB defective interfering (DI) RNAs contain deletions within the SP-ORF and thus resemble replicons. DI RNAs often retain the 5' end of the capsid protein (C) gene that has been shown to modulate virus-specific RNA synthesis. However, when replicons either with or without the C gene were passaged serially in the presence of wt RUB as a source of the virion proteins, it was found that neither replicon was maintained and DI RNAs were generated. The majority DI RNA species contained in-frame deletions in the SP-ORF leading to a fusion between the 5' end of the C gene and the 3' end of the E1 glycoprotein gene. DI infectious cDNA clones were constructed and transcripts from these DI infectious cDNA clones were maintained during serial passage with wt RUB. The C-E1 fusion protein encoded by the DI RNAs was synthesized and was required for maintenance of the DI RNA during serial passage. This is the first report of a functional novel gene product resulting from deletion during DI RNA generation. Thus far, the role of the C-E1 fusion protein in maintenance of DI RNAs during serial passage remained elusive as it was found that the fusion protein diminished rather than enhanced DI RNA synthesis and was not incorporated into virus particles.
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- Wen-Pin Tzeng
- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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Macdonald J, Tonry J, Hall RA, Williams B, Palacios G, Ashok MS, Jabado O, Clark D, Tesh RB, Briese T, Lipkin WI. NS1 protein secretion during the acute phase of West Nile virus infection. J Virol 2006; 79:13924-33. [PMID: 16254328 PMCID: PMC1280181 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.22.13924-13933.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The West Nile virus (WNV) nonstructural protein NS1 is a protein of unknown function that is found within, associated with, and secreted from infected cells. We systematically investigated the kinetics of NS1 secretion in vitro and in vivo to determine the potential use of this protein as a diagnostic marker and to analyze NS1 secretion in relation to the infection cycle. A sensitive antigen capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of WNV NS1 (polyclonal-ACE) was developed, as well as a capture ELISA for the specific detection of NS1 multimers (4G4-ACE). The 4G4-ACE detected native NS1 antigens at high sensitivity, whereas the polyclonal-ACE had a higher specificity for recombinant forms of the protein. Applying these assays we found that only a small fraction of intracellular NS1 is secreted and that secretion of NS1 in tissue culture is delayed compared to the release of virus particles. In experimentally infected hamsters, NS1 was detected in the serum between days 3 and 8 postinfection, peaking on day 5, the day prior to the onset of clinical disease; immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies were detected at low levels on day 5 postinfection. Although real-time PCR gave the earliest indication of infection (day 1), the diagnostic performance of the 4G4-ACE was comparable to that of real-time PCR during the time period when NS1 was secreted. Moreover, the 4G4-ACE was found to be superior in performance to both the IgM and plaque assays during this time period, suggesting that NS1 is a viable early diagnostic marker of WNV infection.
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- Joanne Macdonald
- Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W. 168th St, Rm. 1801, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Brett D Lindenbach
- Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Within the flavivirus family, viruses that cause natural infections of the central nervous system (CNS) principally include members of the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) serogroup and the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) serocomplex. The pathogenesis of diseases involves complex interactions of viruses, which differ in neurovirulence potential, and a number of host factors, which govern susceptibility to infection and the capacity to mount effective antiviral immune responses both in the periphery and within the CNS. This chapter summarizes progress in the field of flavivirus neuropathogenesis. Mosquito-borne and tickborne viruses are considered together. Flavivirus neuropathogenesis involves both neuroinvasiveness (capacity to enter the CNS) and neurovirulence (replication within the CNS), both of which can be manipulated experimentally. Neuronal injury as a result of bystander effects may be a factor during flavivirus neuropathogenesis given that microglial activation and elaboration of inflammatory mediators, including IL-1β and TNF-α, occur in the CNS during these infections and may accompany the production of nitric oxide and peroxynitrite, which can cause neurotoxicity.
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- Thomas J Chambers
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63104, USA
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Hall RA, Broom AK, Smith DW, Mackenzie JS. The ecology and epidemiology of Kunjin virus. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2002; 267:253-69. [PMID: 12082993 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-59403-8_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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- R A Hall
- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Blitvich BJ, Scanlon D, Shiell BJ, Mackenzie JS, Pham K, Hall RA. Determination of the intramolecular disulfide bond arrangement and biochemical identification of the glycosylation sites of the nonstructural protein NS1 of Murray Valley encephalitis virus. J Gen Virol 2001; 82:2251-2256. [PMID: 11514736 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-82-9-2251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The 12 cysteine residues in the flavivirus NS1 protein are strictly conserved, suggesting that they form disulfide bonds that are critical for folding the protein into a functional structure. In this study, we examined the intramolecular disulfide bond arrangement of NS1 of Murray Valley encephalitis virus and elucidated three of the six cysteine-pairing arrangements. Disulfide linkages were identified by separating tryptic-digested NS1 by reverse-phase high pressure liquid chromatography and analysing the resulting peptide peaks by protein sequencing, amino acid analysis and/or electrospray mass spectrometry. The pairing arrangements between the six amino-terminal cysteines were identified as follows: Cys(4)-Cys(15), Cys(55)-Cys(143) and Cys(179)-Cys(223). Although the pairing arrangements between the six carboxy-terminal cysteines were not determined, we were able to eliminate several cysteine-pairing combinations. Furthermore, we demonstrated that all three putative N-linked glycosylation sites of NS1 are utilized and that the Asn(207) glycosylation site contains a mannose-rich glycan.
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- Bradley J Blitvich
- Department of Microbiology, The University of Western Australia, QE-II Medical Centre, Nedlands 6907, Australia1
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- Protein Biochemistry, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Geelong 3220, Australia2
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- Protein Biochemistry, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Geelong 3220, Australia2
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia3
- Department of Microbiology, The University of Western Australia, QE-II Medical Centre, Nedlands 6907, Australia1
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia3
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia3
- Department of Microbiology, The University of Western Australia, QE-II Medical Centre, Nedlands 6907, Australia1
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Bugrysheva JV, Matveeva VA, Dobrikova EY, Bykovskaya NV, Korobova SA, Bakhvalova VN, Morozova OV. Tick-borne encephalitis virus NS1 glycoprotein during acute and persistent infection of cells. Virus Res 2001; 76:161-9. [PMID: 11410315 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1702(01)00274-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) was propagated in porcine embryo kidney (PS) cells until 48 h whereas human kidney (RH) cells maintained the virus persistence during at least 2 months. One of possible reasons of flavivirus chronic infection might be abnormal NS1 gene expression. Immunoblotting with monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) revealed the similarity of the intracellular and secreted NS1 nonstructural glycoprotein size and linear antigenic determinants in both the infected cell lines. However, according to the competitive binding of MAbs with the TBEV NS1 extracellular glycoprotein, its contiguous epitopes differed for acute or persistent infection. To map the TBEV NS1 glycoprotein antigenic determinants its recombinant analogues were used. All the studied MAbs could bind with the full-length NS1 recombinant protein. Deletion of the TBEV NS1 gene internal region resulted in defective NS1d1 protein without the region between 269 and 333 a.a. Lack of NS1d1 binding with 20B4 MAb and diminished binding with 22H8 and 17C3 MAbs permitted to map their antigenic determinants within or nearby deleted region, respectively. Interaction of other MAbs with the NS1 and NS1d1 recombinant proteins did not differ, suggesting that their epitopes were located in the region of N-terminal 268 a.a. or C-terminal 19 a.a. of the TBEV NS1 protein. The second NS1d2 truncated protein contained the first N-terminal 33 a.a. of the TBEV NS1 protein and was able to bind with 29G9 MAb. Taken together the data stand for the differences in the N-terminal structure of the TBEV NS1 multimers secreted from the acute and persistent infected cells whereas the intracellular and secreted monomer processing was the same. The modified NS1 protein oligomers in the RH cellular line might slow virus replication and could result in the TBEV persistence.
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Affiliation(s)
- J V Bugrysheva
- Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev's Prospect 8, 630090 -90, Novosibirsk, Russia
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Australia/epidemiology
- Biological Evolution
- Culicidae/virology
- Encephalitis Virus, Murray Valley/isolation & purification
- Encephalitis Virus, Murray Valley/pathogenicity
- Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese/classification
- Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese/genetics
- Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese/isolation & purification
- Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese/pathogenicity
- Encephalitis, Arbovirus/epidemiology
- Encephalitis, Arbovirus/prevention & control
- Encephalitis, Arbovirus/veterinary
- Encephalitis, Arbovirus/virology
- Genome, Viral
- Glycosylation
- Humans
- Sentinel Surveillance
- Seroepidemiologic Studies
- Viral Vaccines
- Virulence
- West Nile Fever/epidemiology
- West Nile Fever/virology
- West Nile virus/classification
- West Nile virus/genetics
- West Nile virus/isolation & purification
- West Nile virus/pathogenicity
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Affiliation(s)
- R A Hall
- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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