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Szymanik KH, Hancks DC, Sullivan CS. Viral piracy of host RNA phosphatase DUSP11 by avipoxviruses. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.08.06.606876. [PMID: 39211142 PMCID: PMC11361023 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.06.606876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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Proper recognition of viral pathogens is an essential part of the innate immune response. A common viral replicative intermediate and chemical signal that cells use to identify pathogens is the presence of a triphosphorylated 5' end (5'ppp) RNA, which activates the cytosolic RNA sensor RIG-I and initiates downstream antiviral signaling. While 5'pppRNA generated by viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRps) can be a potent activator of the immune response, endogenous RNA polymerase III (RNAPIII) transcripts can retain the 5'pppRNA generated during transcription and induce a RIG-I-mediated immune response. We have previously shown that host RNA triphosphatase dual-specificity phosphatase 11 (DUSP11) can act on both host and viral RNAs, altering their levels and reducing their ability to induce RIG-I activation. Our previous work explored how artificially altered DUSP11 can impact immune activation, prompting further exploration into natural contexts of altered DUSP11. Here, we have identified viral DUSP11 homologs (vDUSP11s) present in some avipoxviruses. Consistent with the known functions of endogenous DUSP11, we have shown that expression of vDUSP11s: 1) reduces levels of endogenous RNAPIII transcripts, 2) reduces a cell's sensitivity to 5'pppRNA-mediated immune activation, and 3) restores virus infection defects seen in the absence of DUSP11. Our results identify a virus-relevant context where DUSP11 activity has been co-opted to alter RNA metabolism and influence the outcome of infection.
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Pu F, Wang R, Yang X, Hu X, Wang J, Zhang L, Zhao Y, Zhang D, Liu Z, Liu J. Nucleotide and codon usage biases involved in the evolution of African swine fever virus: A comparative genomics analysis. J Basic Microbiol 2023; 63:499-518. [PMID: 36782108 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.202200624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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Since African swine fever virus (ASFV) replication is closely related to its host's machinery, codon usage of viral genome can be subject to selection pressures. A better understanding of codon usage can give new insights into viral evolution. We implemented information entropy and revealed that the nucleotide usage pattern of ASFV is significantly associated with viral isolation factors (region and time), especially the usages of thymine and cytosine. Despite the domination of adenine and thymine in the viral genome, we found that mutation pressure alters the overall codon usage pattern of ASFV, followed by selective forces from natural selection. Moreover, the nucleotide skew index at the gene level indicates that nucleotide usages influencing synonymous codon bias of ASFV are significantly correlated with viral protein hydropathy. Finally, evolutionary plasticity is proved to contribute to the weakness in synonymous codons with A- or T-end serving as optimal codons of ASFV, suggesting that fine-tuning translation selection plays a role in synonymous codon usages of ASFV for adapting host. Taken together, ASFV is subject to evolutionary dynamics on nucleotide selections and synonymous codon usage, and our detailed analysis offers deeper insights into the genetic characteristics of this newly emerging virus around the world.
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- Feiyang Pu
- Biomedical Research Center, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Biomedical Research Center, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Biomedical Research Center, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Biomedical Research Center, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Biomedical Research Center, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Biomedical Research Center, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Biomedical Research Center, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Biomedical Research Center, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Life Science and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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The African Swine Fever Virus with MGF360 and MGF505 Deleted Reduces the Apoptosis of Porcine Alveolar Macrophages by Inhibiting the NF-κB Signaling Pathway and Interleukin-1β. Vaccines (Basel) 2021; 9:vaccines9111371. [PMID: 34835302 PMCID: PMC8622997 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines9111371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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African swine fever virus (ASFV) poses serious threats to the swine industry. The mortality rate of African swine fever (ASF) is 100%, and there is no effective vaccine currently available. Complex immune escape strategies of ASFV are crucial factors affecting immune prevention and vaccine development. CD2v and MGF360-505R genes have been implicated in the modulation of the immune response. The molecular mechanisms contributing to innate immunity are poorly understood. In this study, we discover the cytopathic effect and apoptosis of ΔCD2v/ΔMGF360-505R-ASFV after infection in porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs) was significantly less than wild-type ASFV. We demonstrated that CD2v- and MGF360-505R-deficient ASFV decrease the level of apoptosis by inhibiting the NF-κB signaling pathway and IL-1β mRNA transcription. Compared with wild-type ASFV infection, the levels of phospho-NF-κB p65 and p-IκB protein decreased in CD2v- and MGF360-505R-deficient ASFV. Moreover, CD2v- and MGF360-505R-deficient ASFV induced less IL-1β production than wild-type ASFV and was attenuated in replication compared with wild-type ASFV. We further found that MGF360-12L, MGF360-13L, and MGF-505-2R suppress the promoter activity of NF-κB by reporter assays, and CD2v activates the NF-κB signaling pathway. These findings suggested that CD2v- and MGF360-505R-deficient ASFV could reduce the level of ASFV p30 and the apoptosis of PAMs by inhibiting the NF-κB signaling pathway and IL-1β mRNA transcription, which might reveal a novel strategy for ASFV to maintain the replication of the virus in the host.
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Bono LM, Mao S, Done RE, Okamoto KW, Chan BK, Turner PE. Advancing phage therapy through the lens of virus host-breadth and emergence potential. Adv Virus Res 2021; 111:63-110. [PMID: 34663499 DOI: 10.1016/bs.aivir.2021.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Phages are viruses that specifically infect bacteria, and their biodiversity contributes to historical and current development of phage therapy to treat myriad bacterial infections. Phage therapy holds promise as an alternative to failing chemical antibiotics, but there are benefits and costs of this technology. Here, we review the rich history of phage therapy, highlighting reasons (often political) why it was widely rejected by Western medicine until recently. One longstanding idea involves mixing different phages together in cocktails, to increase the probability of killing target pathogenic bacteria without pre-screening for phage susceptibility. By challenging 30 lytic phages to infect 14 strains of the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, we showed that some phages were "generalists" with broad host-ranges, emphasizing that extreme host-specificity of phages was not necessarily a liability. Using a "greedy algorithm" analysis, we identified the best cocktail mixture of phages to achieve broad bacteria killing. Additionally, we review how virus host-range can evolve and connect lessons learned from virus emergence-including contributions of elevated virus mutation rates in promoting emergence and virus evolutionary transitions from specialized to generalized host-use-as cautionary tales for avoiding risk of "off-target" phage emergence on commensal bacteria in microbiomes. Throughout, we highlight how fundamental understanding of virus ecology and evolution is vital for developing phage therapy; heeding these principles should help in designing therapeutic strategies that do not recapitulate consequences of virus selection to emerge on novel hosts.
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- Lisa M Bono
- Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Program, Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States; Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States; Microbiology Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
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Hao JH, Kong HJ, Yan MH, Shen CC, Xu GW, Zhang DJ, Zhang KS, Zheng HX, Liu XT. Inhibition of orf virus replication in goat skin fibroblast cells by the HSPA1B protein, as demonstrated by iTRAQ-based quantitative proteome analysis. Arch Virol 2020; 165:2561-2587. [PMID: 32876795 PMCID: PMC7465882 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-020-04789-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Orf virus (ORFV) infects sheep and goat tissues, resulting in severe proliferative lesions. To analyze cellular protein expression in ORFV-infected goat skin fibroblast (GSF) cells, we used two-dimensional liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry coupled with isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ). The proteomics approach was used along with quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) to detect differentially expressed proteins in ORFV-infected GSF cells and mock-infected GSF cells. A total of 282 differentially expressed proteins were identified. It was found that 222 host proteins were upregulated and 60 were downregulated following viral infection. We confirmed that these proteins were differentially expressed and found that heat shock 70-kDa protein 1B (HSPA1B) was differentially expressed and localized in the cytoplasm. It was also noted that HSPA1B caused inhibition of viral proliferation, in the middle and late stages of viral infection. The differentially expressed proteins were associated with the biological processes of viral binding, cell structure, signal transduction, cell adhesion, and cell proliferation.
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- Jun-Hong Hao
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, No. 1, Xujiaping, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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Teixeira SC, Borges BC, Oliveira VQ, Carregosa LS, Bastos LA, Santos IA, Jardim ACG, Melo FF, Freitas LM, Rodrigues VM, Lopes DS. Insights into the antiviral activity of phospholipases A 2 (PLA 2s) from snake venoms. Int J Biol Macromol 2020; 164:616-625. [PMID: 32698062 PMCID: PMC7368918 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.07.178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Viruses are associated with several human diseases that infect a large number of individuals, hence directly affecting global health and economy. Owing to the lack of efficient vaccines, antiviral therapy and emerging resistance strains, many viruses are considered as a potential threat to public health. Therefore, researches have been developed to identify new drug candidates for future treatments. Among them, antiviral research based on natural molecules is a promising approach. Phospholipases A2 (PLA2s) isolated from snake venom have shown significant antiviral activity against some viruses such as Dengue virus, Human Immunodeficiency virus, Hepatitis C virus and Yellow fever virus, and have emerged as an attractive alternative strategy for the development of novel antiviral therapy. Thus, this review provides an overview of remarkable findings involving PLA2s from snake venom that possess antiviral activity, and discusses the mechanisms of action mediated by PLA2s against different stages of virus replication cycle. Additionally, molecular docking simulations were performed by interacting between phospholipids from Dengue virus envelope and PLA2s from Bothrops asper snake venom. Studies on snake venom PLA2s highlight the potential use of these proteins for the development of broad-spectrum antiviral drugs.
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- S C Teixeira
- Department of Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Science, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Science, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil
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- Multidisciplinary Institute of Health, Anísio Teixeira Campus, Federal University of Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Multidisciplinary Institute of Health, Anísio Teixeira Campus, Federal University of Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Multidisciplinary Institute of Health, Anísio Teixeira Campus, Federal University of Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Virology, Institute of Biomedical Science, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Virology, Institute of Biomedical Science, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil
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- Multidisciplinary Institute of Health, Anísio Teixeira Campus, Federal University of Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Multidisciplinary Institute of Health, Anísio Teixeira Campus, Federal University of Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Animal Toxins, Institute of Biotechnology, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.
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- Multidisciplinary Institute of Health, Anísio Teixeira Campus, Federal University of Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil; Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Bio-Function, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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Reguzova A, Ghosh M, Müller M, Rziha HJ, Amann R. Orf Virus-Based Vaccine Vector D1701-V Induces Strong CD8+ T Cell Response against the Transgene but Not against ORFV-Derived Epitopes. Vaccines (Basel) 2020; 8:E295. [PMID: 32531997 PMCID: PMC7349966 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines8020295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The potency of viral vector-based vaccines depends on their ability to induce strong transgene-specific immune response without triggering anti-vector immunity. Previously, Orf virus (ORFV, Parapoxvirus) strain D1701-V was reported as a novel vector mediating protection against viral infections. The short-lived ORFV-specific immune response and the absence of virus neutralizing antibodies enables repeated immunizations and enhancement of humoral immune responses against the inserted antigens. However, only limited information exists about the D1701-V induced cellular immunity. In this study we employed major histocompatibility complex (MHC) ligandomics and immunogenicity analysis to identify ORFV-specific epitopes. Using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry we detected 36 ORFV-derived MHC I peptides, originating from various proteins. Stimulated splenocytes from ORFV-immunized mice did not exhibit specific CD8+ T cell responses against the tested peptides. In contrast, immunization with ovalbumin-expressing ORFV recombinant elicited strong SIINFEKL-specific CD8+ T lymphocyte response. In conclusion, our data indicate that cellular immunity to the ORFV vector is negligible, while strong CD8+ T cell response is induced against the inserted transgene. These results further emphasize the ORFV strain D1701-V as an attractive vector for vaccine development. Moreover, the presented experiments describe prerequisites for the selection of T cell epitopes exploitable for generation of ORFV-based vaccines by reverse genetics.
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- Department of Immunology, Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; (A.R.); (M.G.); (M.M.); (H.-J.R.)
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Novel Insights into the Roles of Bcl-2 Homolog Nr-13 (vNr-13) Encoded by Herpesvirus of Turkeys in the Virus Replication Cycle, Mitochondrial Networks, and Apoptosis Inhibition. J Virol 2020; 94:JVI.02049-19. [PMID: 32161176 PMCID: PMC7199394 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02049-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The Bcl-2 (B cell lymphoma 2)-related protein Nr-13 plays a major role in the regulation of cell death in developing avian B cells. With over 65% sequence similarity to the chicken Nr-13, herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT) vNr-13, encoded by the HVT079 and HVT096 genes, is the first known alphaherpesvirus-encoded Bcl-2 homolog. HVT-infected cells were reported to be relatively more resistant to serum starvation, suggested that vNr-13 could be involved in protecting the cells. Here, we describe CRISPR/Cas9-based editing of exon 1 of the HVT079 and HVT096 genes from the HVT genome to generate the mutant HVT-ΔvNr-13 to gain insights into its functional roles. Overall, wild-type HVT and HVT-ΔvNr-13 showed similar growth kinetics; however, at early time points, HVT-ΔvNr-13 showed 1.3- to 1.7-fold-lower growth of cell-associated virus and 3- to 6.2-fold-lower growth of cell-free virus. In transfected cells, HVT vNr-13 showed a mainly diffuse cytoplasmic distribution with faint nuclear staining. Further, vNr-13 localized to the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and disrupted mitochondrial network morphology in the transfected cells. In the wild-type HVT-infected cells, vNr-13 expression appeared to be directly involved in the disruption of the mitochondrial network, as the mitochondrial network morphology was substantially restored in the HVT-ΔvNr-13-infected cells. IncuCyte S3 real-time apoptosis monitoring demonstrated that vNr-13 is unequivocally involved in the apoptosis inhibition, and it is associated with an increase of PFU, especially under serum-free conditions in the later stages of the viral replication cycle. Furthermore, HVT blocks apoptosis in infected cells but activates apoptosis in noninfected bystander cells.IMPORTANCE B cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) family proteins play important roles in regulating apoptosis during homeostasis, tissue development, and infectious diseases. Several viruses encode homologs of cellular Bcl-2-proteins (vBcl-2) to inhibit apoptosis, which enable them to replicate and persist in the infected cells and to evade/modulate the immune response of the host. Herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT) is a nonpathogenic alphaherpesvirus of turkeys and chickens that is widely used as a live vaccine against Marek's disease and as recombinant vaccine viral vectors for protecting against multiple avian diseases. Identical copies of the HVT genes HVT079 and HVT096 encode the Bcl-2 homolog vNr-13. While previous studies have identified the potential ability of vNr-13 in inhibiting apoptosis induced by serum deprivation, there have been no detailed investigations on the functions of vNr-13. Using CRISPR/Cas9-based ablation of the vNr-13 gene, we demonstrated the roles of HVT vNr-13 in early stages of the viral replication cycle, mitochondrial morphology disruption, and apoptosis inhibition in later stages of viral replication.
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Dixon LK, Islam M, Nash R, Reis AL. African swine fever virus evasion of host defences. Virus Res 2019; 266:25-33. [PMID: 30959069 PMCID: PMC6505686 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2019.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Revised: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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African swine fever virus causes a haemorrhagic fever in domestic pigs and wild boar. The continuing spread in Africa, Europe and Asia threatens the global pig industry. The lack of a vaccine limits disease control. To underpin rational strategies for vaccine development improved knowledge is needed of how the virus interacts with and modulates the host's responses to infection. The virus long double-stranded DNA genome codes for more than 160 proteins of which many are non-essential for replication in cells but can have important roles in evading the host's defences. Here we review knowledge of the pathways targeted by ASFV and the mechanisms by which these are inhibited. The impact of deleting single or multiple ASFV genes on virus replication in cells and infection in pigs is summarised providing information on strategies for rational development of modified live vaccines.
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- L K Dixon
- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK.
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- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK
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- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK
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- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK
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Manickam C, Shah SV, Lucar O, Ram DR, Reeves RK. Cytokine-Mediated Tissue Injury in Non-human Primate Models of Viral Infections. Front Immunol 2018; 9:2862. [PMID: 30568659 PMCID: PMC6290327 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Viral infections trigger robust secretion of interferons and other antiviral cytokines by infected and bystander cells, which in turn can tune the immune response and may lead to viral clearance or immune suppression. However, aberrant or unrestricted cytokine responses can damage host tissues, leading to organ dysfunction, and even death. To understand the cytokine milieu and immune responses in infected host tissues, non-human primate (NHP) models have emerged as important tools. NHP have been used for decades to study human infections and have played significant roles in the development of vaccines, drug therapies and other immune treatment modalities, aided by an ability to control disease parameters, and unrestricted tissue access. In addition to the genetic and physiological similarities with humans, NHP have conserved immunologic properties with over 90% amino acid similarity for most cytokines. For example, human-like symptomology and acute respiratory syndrome is found in cynomolgus macaques infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, antibody enhanced dengue disease is common in neotropical primates, and in NHP models of viral hepatitis cytokine-induced inflammation induces severe liver damage, fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma recapitulates human disease. To regulate inflammation, anti-cytokine therapy studies in NHP are underway and will provide important insights for future human interventions. This review will provide a comprehensive outline of the cytokine-mediated exacerbation of disease and tissue damage in NHP models of viral infections and therapeutic strategies that can aid in prevention/treatment of the disease syndromes.
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- Cordelia Manickam
- Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Bordignon V, Di Domenico EG, Trento E, D'Agosto G, Cavallo I, Pontone M, Pimpinelli F, Mariani L, Ensoli F. How Human Papillomavirus Replication and Immune Evasion Strategies Take Advantage of the Host DNA Damage Repair Machinery. Viruses 2017; 9:v9120390. [PMID: 29257060 PMCID: PMC5744164 DOI: 10.3390/v9120390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Revised: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 12/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The DNA damage response (DDR) is a complex signalling network activated when DNA is altered by intrinsic or extrinsic agents. DDR plays important roles in genome stability and cell cycle regulation, as well as in tumour transformation. Viruses have evolved successful life cycle strategies in order to ensure a chronic persistence in the host, virtually avoiding systemic sequelae and death. This process promotes the periodic shedding of large amounts of infectious particles to maintain a virus reservoir in individual hosts, while allowing virus spreading within the community. To achieve such a successful lifestyle, the human papilloma virus (HPV) needs to escape the host defence systems. The key to understanding how this is achieved is in the virus replication process that provides by itself an evasion mechanism by inhibiting and delaying the host immune response against the viral infection. Numerous studies have demonstrated that HPV exploits both the ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ataxia-telangiectasia and rad3-related (ATR) DDR pathways to replicate its genome and maintain a persistent infection by downregulating the innate and cell-mediated immunity. This review outlines how HPV interacts with the ATM- and ATR-dependent DDR machinery during the viral life cycle to create an environment favourable to viral replication, and how the interaction with the signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) protein family and the deregulation of the Janus kinase (JAK)-STAT pathways may impact the expression of interferon-inducible genes and the innate immune responses.
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- Valentina Bordignon
- Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Unit, San Gallicano Dermatology Institute, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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- Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Unit, San Gallicano Dermatology Institute, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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- Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Unit, San Gallicano Dermatology Institute, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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- Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Unit, San Gallicano Dermatology Institute, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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- Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Unit, San Gallicano Dermatology Institute, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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- Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Unit, San Gallicano Dermatology Institute, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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- Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Unit, San Gallicano Dermatology Institute, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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- HPV Unit, Department of Gynaecologic Oncology, National Cancer Institute Regina Elena, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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- Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Unit, San Gallicano Dermatology Institute, IRCCS, IFO, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy.
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Bergqvist C, Kurban M, Abbas O. Orf virus infection. Rev Med Virol 2017; 27. [DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Revised: 02/17/2017] [Accepted: 03/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Christina Bergqvist
- Dermatology Department; American University of Beirut Medical Center; Beirut Lebanon
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- Dermatology Department; American University of Beirut Medical Center; Beirut Lebanon
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- Dermatology Department; American University of Beirut Medical Center; Beirut Lebanon
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Although genetic transfer between viruses and vertebrate hosts occurs less frequently than gene flow between bacteriophages and prokaryotes, it is extensive and has affected the evolution of both parties. With retroviruses, the integration of proviral DNA into chromosomal DNA can result in the activation of adjacent host gene expression and in the transduction of host transcripts into retroviral genomes as oncogenes. Yet in contrast to lysogenic phage, there is little evidence that viral oncogenes persist in a chain of natural transmission or that retroviral transduction is a significant driver of the horizontal spread of host genes. Conversely, integration of proviruses into the host germ line has generated endogenous retroviral genomes (ERV) in all vertebrate genomes sequenced to date. Some of these genomes retain potential infectivity and upon reactivation may transmit to other host species. During mammalian evolution, sequences of retroviral origin have been repurposed to serve host functions, such as the viral envelope glycoproteins crucial to the development of the placenta. Beyond retroviruses, DNA viruses with complex genomes have acquired numerous genes of host origin which influence replication, pathogenesis and immune evasion, while host species have accumulated germline sequences of both DNA and RNA viruses. A codicil is added on lateral transmission of cancer cells between hosts and on migration of host mitochondria into cancer cells.
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- Robin A Weiss
- Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
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Mou D, Espinosa JE, Stempora L, Iwakoshi NN, Kirk AD. Viral-induced CD28 loss evokes costimulation independent alloimmunity. J Surg Res 2015; 196:241-6. [PMID: 25801976 DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.02.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Revised: 01/21/2015] [Accepted: 02/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Belatacept, a B7-specific fusion protein, blocks CD28-B7 costimulation and prevents kidney allograft rejection. However, it is ineffective in a sizable minority of patients. Although T-cell receptor and CD28 engagement are known to initiate T-cell activation, many human antigen-experienced T-cells lose CD28, and can be activated independent of CD28 signals. We posit that these cells are central drivers of costimulation blockade resistant rejection (CoBRR) and propose that CoBRR might relate to an accumulation of CD28(-) T-cells resulting from viral antigen exposure. MATERIALS AND METHODS We infected C57BL/6 mice with polyomavirus (a BK virus analog), murine cytomegalovirus (a human cytomegalovirus analog), and gammaherpesvirus (HV68; an Epstein-Barr virus analog) and assessed for CD28 expression relative to mock infection controls. We then used mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) assays to assess the alloreactive response of these mice against major histocompatibility complex-mismatched cells. RESULTS We demonstrated that infection with polyomavirus, murine CMV, and HV68 can induce CD28 downregulation in mice. We showed that these analogs of clinically relevant human viruses enable lymphocytes from infected mice to launch an anamnestic, costimulation blockade resistant, alloreactive response against major histocompatibility complex-mismatched cells without prior alloantigen exposure. Further analysis revealed that gammherpesvirus-induced oligoclonal T-cell expansion is required for the increased alloreactivity. CONCLUSIONS Virus exposure results in reduced T-cell expression of CD28, the target of costimulation blockade therapy. These viruses also contribute to increased alloreactivity. Thus, CD28 downregulation after viral infection may play a seminal role in driving CoBRR.
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- Danny Mou
- Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
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- Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Cianciulli A, Calvello R, Panaro MA. Determinism and randomness in the evolution of introns and sine inserts in mouse and human mitochondrial solute carrier and cytokine receptor genes. Comput Biol Chem 2015; 55:49-59. [PMID: 25707022 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2015.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Revised: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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In the homologous genes studied, the exons and introns alternated in the same order in mouse and human. We studied, in both species: corresponding short segments of introns, whole corresponding introns and complete homologous genes. We considered the total number of nucleotides and the number and orientation of the SINE inserts. Comparisons of mouse and human data series showed that at the level of individual relatively short segments of intronic sequences the stochastic variability prevails in the local structuring, but at higher levels of organization a deterministic component emerges, conserved in mouse and human during the divergent evolution, despite the ample re-editing of the intronic sequences and the fact that processes such as SINE spread had taken place in an independent way in the two species. Intron conservation is negatively correlated with the SINE occupancy, suggesting that virus inserts interfere with the conservation of the sequences inherited from the common ancestor.
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- Antonia Cianciulli
- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari,via Orabona, 4, I-70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari,via Orabona, 4, I-70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari,via Orabona, 4, I-70126 Bari, Italy.
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Hosamani M, Scagliarini A, Bhanuprakash V, McInnes CJ, Singh RK. Orf: an update on current research and future perspectives. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2014; 7:879-93. [PMID: 19735227 DOI: 10.1586/eri.09.64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Madhusudan Hosamani
- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar-263138, Nainital Distt., India and Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Hebbal, Bangalore-24, India.
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Gonzalez MW, Spouge JL. Domain analysis of symbionts and hosts (DASH) in a genome-wide survey of pathogenic human viruses. BMC Res Notes 2013; 6:209. [PMID: 23706066 PMCID: PMC3672079 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2012] [Accepted: 05/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the coevolution of viruses and their hosts, viruses often capture host genes, gaining advantageous functions (e.g. immune system control). Identifying functional similarities shared by viruses and their hosts can help decipher mechanisms of pathogenesis and accelerate virus-targeted drug and vaccine development. Cellular homologs in viruses are usually documented using pairwise-sequence comparison methods. Yet, pairwise-sequence searches have limited sensitivity resulting in poor identification of divergent homologies. RESULTS Methods based on profiles from multiple sequences provide a more sensitive alternative to identify similarities in host-pathogen systems. The present work describes a profile-based bioinformatics pipeline that we call the Domain Analysis of Symbionts and Hosts (DASH). DASH provides a web platform for the functional analysis of viral and host genomes. This study uses Human Herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) as a model to validate the methodology. Our results indicate that HHV-8 shares at least 29% of its genes with humans (fourteen immunomodulatory and ten metabolic genes). DASH also suggests functions for fifty-one additional HHV-8 structural and metabolic proteins. We also perform two other comparative genomics studies of human viruses: (1) a broad survey of eleven viruses of disparate sizes and transcription strategies; and (2) a closer examination of forty-one viruses of the order Mononegavirales. In the survey, DASH detects human homologs in 4/5 DNA viruses. None of the non-retro-transcribing RNA viruses in the survey showed evidence of homology to humans. The order Mononegavirales are also non-retro-transcribing RNA viruses, however, and DASH found homology in 39/41 of them. Mononegaviruses display larger fractions of human similarities (up to 75%) than any of the other RNA or DNA viruses (up to 55% and 29% respectively). CONCLUSIONS We conclude that gene sharing probably occurs between humans and both DNA and RNA viruses, in viral genomes of differing sizes, regardless of transcription strategies. Our method (DASH) simultaneously analyzes the genomes of two interacting species thereby mining functional information to identify shared as well as exclusive domains to each organism. Our results validate our approach, showing that DASH has potential as a pipeline for making therapeutic discoveries in other host-symbiont systems. DASH results are available at http://tinyurl.com/spouge-dash.
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- Mileidy W Gonzalez
- National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room 6N611-M, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
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A Case of Contagious Ecthyma (Orf Virus) in a Nonmanipulated Laboratory Dorset Sheep (Ovis aries). Case Rep Vet Med 2013. [DOI: 10.1155/2013/210854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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An approximately 5-month-old laboratory wether, originating from a local vendor with a closed flock and maintained on a preventative medicine plan, presented with a continuum of lesions from hemorrhagic papules, vesicles, and pustules, to multifocal necrotic scabs at the commissure of the lips, medial canthus of the left eye, and distal prepuce. A presumptive diagnosis of Orf virus (ORFV) was made and the sheep was euthanized. A full necropsy was performed, and histopathological evaluation of affected tissues revealed multifocal-to-coalescing necrotizing and proliferative cheilitis and dermatitis with eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies. Electron microscopy findings revealed degenerate keratinocytes containing numerous typical 200–300 nm wide cytoplasmic parapoxvirus virions, confirming the diagnosis of ORFV. We believe that this animal developed a clinical case of ORFV either due to an adverse reaction to an ORFV vaccine, or this animal had a case of preexisting ORFV which manifested after arrival at our facility.
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Horizontal transfer and the evolution of host-pathogen interactions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 2012; 2012:679045. [PMID: 23227424 PMCID: PMC3513734 DOI: 10.1155/2012/679045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2012] [Accepted: 10/26/2012] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Horizontal gene transfer has been long known in viruses and prokaryotes, but its importance in eukaryotes has been only acknowledged recently. Close contact between organisms, as it occurs between pathogens and their hosts, facilitates the occurrence of DNA transfer events. Once inserted in a foreign genome, DNA sequences have sometimes been coopted by pathogens to improve their survival or infectivity, or by hosts to protect themselves against the harm of pathogens. Hence, horizontal transfer constitutes a source of novel sequences that can be adopted to change the host-pathogen interactions. Therefore, horizontal transfer can have an important impact on the coevolution of pathogens and their hosts.
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Mohamed MR, Rahman MM, Lanchbury JS, Shattuck D, Neff C, Dufford M, van Buuren N, Fagan K, Barry M, Smith S, Damon I, McFadden G. Proteomic screening of variola virus reveals a unique NF-kappaB inhibitor that is highly conserved among pathogenic orthopoxviruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:9045-50. [PMID: 19451633 PMCID: PMC2683884 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900452106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Identification of the binary interactions between viral and host proteins has become a valuable tool for investigating viral tropism and pathogenesis. Here, we present the first systematic protein interaction screening of the unique variola virus proteome by using yeast 2-hybrid screening against a variety of human cDNA libraries. Several protein-protein interactions were identified, including an interaction between variola G1R, an ankryin/F-box containing protein, and human nuclear factor kappa-B1 (NF-kappaB1)/p105. This represents the first direct interaction between a pathogen-encoded protein and NF-kappaB1/p105. Orthologs of G1R are present in a variety of pathogenic orthopoxviruses, but not in vaccinia virus, and expression of any one of these viral proteins blocks NF-kappaB signaling in human cells. Thus, proteomic screening of variola virus has the potential to uncover modulators of the human innate antiviral responses.
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- Mohamed R. Mohamed
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
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- Myriad Genetics, Salt Lake City, UT 84108
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2S2
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2S2
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2S2
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Smallpox and other Poxvirus Infections, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333
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- World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Smallpox and other Poxvirus Infections, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
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Immunoglobulins in pigs vaccinated with a subunit E2 and an attenuated c strain vaccine against classical swine fever. ACTA VET-BEOGRAD 2009. [DOI: 10.2298/avb0906489t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Stebbing J, Powles T, Nelson M, Bower M. Significance of variation within HIV, EBV, and KSHV subtypes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 5:93-102. [PMID: 16928877 DOI: 10.1177/1545109706290171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Since their initial transmission to humans, viruses have diversified extensively through recombination and mutation. The presence of intra- and inter-individual viral diversity influences disease progression, drug resistance, and therapy and presumably explains the conflicting results in many studies, including the failure of peptide-based vaccination strategies. Although HIV is a small RNA virus, coinfection with large DNA viruses, notably the oncogenic gamma-herpesviridae human herpesvirus-8 and Epstein Barr virus, is common. This coinfection occurs secondary to immunosuppression and shared transmission routes with high-risk predisposing behavior. In addition, all 3 of these viruses can lead to chronic infections, long periods of latency, and reactivation characterized by pain and suffering. The efficient targeting of their genetic diversity represents one of the major challenges in their control, both in prophylactic and therapeutic strategies. An understanding of diversity will help delineate whether population-specific vaccine strategies are necessary.
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- Justin Stebbing
- Department of HIV Medicine, The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road, London, United Kingdom
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Xu W, Zheng S, Goggans TM, Kiser P, Quinones-Mateu ME, Janocha AJ, Comhair SAA, Slee R, Williams BRG, Erzurum SC. Cystic fibrosis and normal human airway epithelial cell response to influenza a viral infection. J Interferon Cytokine Res 2007; 26:609-27. [PMID: 16978065 DOI: 10.1089/jir.2006.26.609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Viral infections produce severe respiratory morbidity in children with cystic fibrosis (CF). CF cells are more susceptible to virus in part because of impaired airway epithelial activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (Stat1). As Stat1 is a fundamental regulator of antiviral defenses, we hypothesized that there may be multiple alterations in the antiviral defense of CF epithelium compared with normal (NL). To obtain a comprehensive view of mucosal host responses to influenza and characterize the difference between CF and NL responses to influenza, gene expression profiles of primary human airway epithelial cells (HAEC) were evaluated using an interferon (IFN)-stimulated genes/AU/double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) microarray or quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) following influenza A infection. Gene expression was significantly modified by influenza in NL (228 genes) and CF (101 genes), with a similar pattern of gene response but with overall less numbers of responsive genes in CF (p < 0.05). Moreover, CF cells had less IFN-related antiviral gene induction at 24 h but greater inflammatory cytokine gene induction at 1 h after infection. Taken together, the lesser antiviral and greater early inflammatory response likely contribute to the severe respiratory illness of CF patients with viral infections.
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- Weiling Xu
- Department of Pathobiology and Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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Gulbahar MY, Davis WC, Yuksel H, Cabalar M. Immunohistochemical evaluation of inflammatory infiltrate in the skin and lung of lambs naturally infected with sheeppox virus. Vet Pathol 2006; 43:67-75. [PMID: 16407491 DOI: 10.1354/vp.43-1-67] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The present study describes immunophenotypic characteristics of inflammatory infiltrate in the skin and lung of lambs naturally infected with sheeppox virus (SPV). Three lambs revealed typical cutaneous and pulmonary lesions of sheeppox. Histologically, cutaneous and pulmonary lesions consisted of hyperplastic and/or degenerative changes in the epithelium with mononuclear cells, neutrophils, and typical sheeppox cells (SPCs), which had a vacuolated nucleus and marginated chromatin with occasional granular intracytoplasmic inclusions. The inflammatory infiltrate in pox lesions in both skin and lung was characterized by the presence of MHC II+ dendritic cells, CD4+, CD8+, gammadelta+ T cells, IgM+ cells, and CD21+ cells. Loss of expression of MHC I and MHC II antigens was observed in the affected areas of skin and lung. SPCs, stained with anti-SPV antibody, were also positive for CD14 and CD172A, antigens expressed on monocytes and macrophages. CD14 and CD172A negative SPCs were considered to be SPV infected degenerated epithelial cells or fibroblasts.
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- M Y Gulbahar
- University of Ondokuz Mayis, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology, Kurupelit, 55200 Samsun, Turkey.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW A summary of recent advances in our knowledge of the biology of orf virus is presented to illustrate the interaction of a zoonotic pathogen with host skin. This is providing novel and interesting data on the viral mechanism of skin infection and the host response. RECENT FINDINGS The full genome sequences of two parapoxviruses (orf virus and bovine papular stomatitis virus) have recently been published, defining the parapoxvirus genus at the molecular genetic level. This, along with more detailed characterization of viral immuno-modulatory proteins, is providing an insight into the acquisition of host genes and the mechanism of pathogenesis. A new chemokine-binding protein has been discovered with unique features. Structure-function analysis of the viral granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor inhibitory factor has revealed a similarity to type 1 cytokine receptors. The viral vascular endothelial growth factor-E stimulates angiogenesis in the skin without the side effects seen with cellular vascular endothelial growth factor-A, and may have therapeutic potential. Finally, orf virus is proving useful both as an immuno-modulator and as a vector for the expression of foreign antigens in non-permissive species. SUMMARY Orf virus infection provokes a vigorous skin immune response. However, the virus has acquired a range of immuno-modulatory/pathogenesis-related genes that function to limit (at least transiently) the effectiveness of host immunity. With the advent of the orf virus genome sequence, the study of this dynamic process will provide important insights into virus pathogenesis and the host skin immune response to infection.
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- David M Haig
- Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, Penicuik EH45 8RE, Scotland.
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Pepose JS, Keadle TL, Morrison LA. Ocular herpes simplex: changing epidemiology, emerging disease patterns, and the potential of vaccine prevention and therapy. Am J Ophthalmol 2006; 141:547-557. [PMID: 16490506 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2005.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2005] [Revised: 09/29/2005] [Accepted: 10/11/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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PURPOSE To review the changing epidemiology of herpes simplex virus infection, emerging patterns of herpetic ocular disease, and the challenges and promise of herpes simplex virus vaccine therapy. DESIGN Perspective. METHODS Literature review. RESULTS An epidemic increase in genital herpes simplex type 2 infection is reflected in a 30% increase in HSV-2 antibodies in the United States since 1976. Approximately one in four people in the United States over age 30 is infected with HSV-2. Primary acquisition of herpes simplex type 1 is becoming progressively delayed in many industrialized countries, in contrast to developing nations where the virus is acquired early in life and is ubiquitous. Changes in sexual behavior among young adults have been associated with a recent increase in genital HSV-1 infection, resulting from oral-genital rather than genital-genital contact. Clinical trials of HSV vaccines using selected herpes simplex virus type 2 proteins mixed in adjuvant have shown limited efficacy in seronegative women, but not in men. CONCLUSIONS The recent epidemic of genital herpes simplex type 2 infection is likely to result in an increase in neonatal ocular herpes and in delayed cases of acute retinal necrosis syndrome. The increase in genital HSV-1 may lead to industry production of vaccines that contain components of both HSV-1 and HSV-2 targeted toward limiting genital disease and transmission. As newer herpes simplex vaccines become available, ophthalmologists must be vigilant that a boost in immunity against HSV does not have a paradoxical effect in exacerbating break-through cases that develop immune-mediated herpes simplex stromal keratitis.
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- Jay S Pepose
- Pepose Vision Institute, 16216 Baxter Road, Ste. 205, Chesterfield, MO 63107, USA.
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Bower M, Stebbing J. AIDS-associated malignancies. CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY AND BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS 2005; 22:687-706. [PMID: 16110634 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-4410(04)22030-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Mark Bower
- Department of Oncology, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, UK.
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Myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cells, a family of professional antigen presenting cells, are crucial in generating and maintaining anti-viral immunity. Many viruses have evolved to avoid, subvert, and even counterattack them. In this article, we focus on the tuning of innate and adaptive responses induced by human dendritic cells, and on the inhibition of their functions by viruses of medical significance. A constant "tug of war" goes on between dendritic cells and viruses and a main dendritic cell countermeasure is cross-presentation/priming.
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- Marie Larsson
- NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, MSB507, New York, NY 10016, USA
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Friebe A, Siegling A, Friederichs S, Volk HD, Weber O. Immunomodulatory effects of inactivated parapoxvirus ovis (ORF virus) on human peripheral immune cells: induction of cytokine secretion in monocytes and Th1-like cells. J Virol 2004; 78:9400-11. [PMID: 15308734 PMCID: PMC506965 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.17.9400-9411.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Inactivated parapoxvirus ovis (Orf virus; PPVO) recently displayed strong immunostimulating and modulating capacities in several animal models for acute and chronic virus infections through the induction of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) as a key mediator of antiviral activity. The data presented in this work demonstrate that inactivated PPVO has strong effects on cytokine secretion by human immune cells, including the upregulation of inflammatory and Th1-related cytokines (IFN-gamma, tumor necrosis factor alpha [TNF-alpha], interleukin 6 [IL-6], IL-8, IL-12, and IL-18) as well as anti-inflammatory and Th2-related cytokines (IL-4, IL-10, and IL-1 receptor antagonist [IL-1ra]). Studies on the mechanism of action revealed virus particles to be the effective components of the preparation. The virus particles activate monocytes or other antigen-presenting cells (APC), e.g., plasmacytoid dendritic cells, through signaling over CD14 and a Toll-like receptor and the intracellular presence of certain PPVO-specific components. The activation of monocytes or APC is followed by the release of early proinflammatory cytokines (TNF-alpha, IL-6, and IL-8) as well as the Th1-related cytokines IL-12 and IL-18. Both IL-18 and IL-12 are involved in PPVO-mediated IFN-gamma release by T cells and/or NK cells. The proinflammatory response is accompanied by the induction of anti-inflammatory and Th2-related cytokines (IL-4, IL-10, and IL-1ra), which exert a limiting efffect on the inflammatory response induced by PPVO. We conclude that the induction of a natural immune response with physiologically significant amounts of different cytokines and with antiviral potential might provide advantages over existing antiviral immunotherapies.
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- Astrid Friebe
- Institute of Medical Immunology, Charite, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Greenspan G, Geiger D, Gotch F, Bower M, Patterson S, Nelson M, Gazzard B, Stebbing J. Model-Based Inference of Recombination Hotspots in a Highly, Variable Oncogene. J Mol Evol 2004; 58:239-51. [PMID: 15045480 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2543-1] [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: 08/14/2003] [Accepted: 08/30/2003] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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An emergent problem in the study of pathogen evolution is our ability to determine the extent to which their rapidly evolving genomes recombine. Such information is necessary and essential for locating pathogenicity loci using association studies, and it also directs future screening, therapeutic and vaccination strategies. Recombination also complicates the use of phylogenetic approaches to infer evolutionary parameters including selection pressures. Reliable methods that identify the presence of regions of recombination are therefore vital. We illustrate the use of an integrated model-based approach to inferring recombination structure using all available sequences of the highly variable, transforming Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesviral gene, ORF-K1. This technique learns the parameters of a statistical model that takes recombination hotspots, population genetic effects, and variable rates of mutation into account. As there are no known mechanisms to explain the high mutation rate in this DNA viral gene, recombination may account for some of the variability observed. We infer recombination hotspots in conserved sites such as the tyrosine kinase signaling motif, referred to here as recombination drift, as well as in nonconserved sites, a process described as recombination shift.
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- G Greenspan
- Computer Science Department, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Aouacheria A, Banyai M, Rigal D, Schmidt CJ, Gillet G. Characterization of vnr-13, the first alphaherpesvirus gene of the bcl-2 family. Virology 2004; 316:256-66. [PMID: 14644608 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2003.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Bcl-2 family, including antiapoptotic and proapoptotic members, plays key regulating roles in programmed cell death. We report the characterization of a new member of the bcl-2 family, encoded by herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT). The product of this gene shares 80% homology with Nr-13, an apoptosis inhibitor, which is overexpressed in avian cells transformed by the v-src oncogene. This new gene, that we propose to call vnr-13, is the first member of the bcl-2 family to be isolated among alpha-herpesviruses. Results from cells expressing the HVT-vnr-13 gene product show that the encoded protein inhibits apoptosis and also reduces the rate of cellular proliferation. Contrary to all bcl-2 homologues found in gamma-herpesvirus, which are intronless, vnr-13 has the same organization as the cellular nr-13 gene. Hence, the HVT vnr-13 gene may have been acquired from a reverse transcriptase product of an unspliced precursor RNA, or via direct recombination with the host chromosomal DNA.
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- Abdel Aouacheria
- IBCP, UMR 5086 CNRS-Université Claude Bernard 7, Passage du Vercors, F69367 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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Reed SM, Bayly WM, Sellon DC. Mechanisms of Infectious Disease. EQUINE INTERNAL MEDICINE 2004. [PMCID: PMC7278211 DOI: 10.1016/b0-72-169777-1/50004-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Seet BT, Johnston JB, Brunetti CR, Barrett JW, Everett H, Cameron C, Sypula J, Nazarian SH, Lucas A, McFadden G. Poxviruses and immune evasion. Annu Rev Immunol 2003; 21:377-423. [PMID: 12543935 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.21.120601.141049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 475] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Large DNA viruses defend against hostile assault executed by the host immune system by producing an array of gene products that systematically sabotage key components of the inflammatory response. Poxviruses target many of the primary mediators of innate immunity including interferons, tumor necrosis factors, interleukins, complement, and chemokines. Poxviruses also manipulate a variety of intracellular signal transduction pathways such as the apoptotic response. Many of the poxvirus genes that disrupt these pathways have been hijacked directly from the host immune system, while others have demonstrated no clear resemblance to any known host genes. Nonetheless, the immunological targets and the diversity of strategies used by poxviruses to disrupt these host pathways have provided important insights into diverse aspects of immunology, virology, and inflammation. Furthermore, because of their anti-inflammatory nature, many of these poxvirus proteins hold promise as potential therapeutic agents for acute or chronic inflammatory conditions.
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- Bruce T Seet
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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Chianini F, Majó N, Segalés J, Domínguez J, Domingo M. Immunohistochemical characterisation of PCV2 associate lesions in lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues of pigs with natural postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2003; 94:63-75. [PMID: 12842612 PMCID: PMC7119727 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2427(03)00079-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The lymphoid, renal, pulmonary, and hepatic lesions of naturally occurring postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) affected pigs have been studied by means of immunohistology. Ten conventionally reared pigs showing acute clinical signs of PMWS were selected from a farm on which animal were seronegative to porcine reproductive and respiratory virus and to Aujeszky's disease virus. All pigs were positive in tests for porcine circovirus type 2 by ISH and IHC. Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to CD3, CD79alpha, CD45RA (3C3/9), lysozyme, SLA-II-DQ (BL2H5), and MAC387 were used to characterise cells in PMWS lesions. The most relevant changes were reduction or loss of B and T lymphocytes, increased numbers of macrophages, and partial loss and redistribution of antigen presenting cells throughout lymphoid tissues compared to uninfected controls. The characteristics of lymphoid lesions in the present study strongly suggest an immunosuppressive effect of PMWS in affected pigs.
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- F Chianini
- Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Departament de Sanitat i Anatomia Animals (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona), Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
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It is well known that microbial pathogens are able to subvert the host immune system in order to increase microbial replication and propagation. Recent research indicates that another arm of the immune response, that of the chemokine system, is also subject to this sabotage, and is undermined by a range of microbial pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Currently, it is known that the chemokine system is being challenged by a number of mechanisms, and still more are likely to be discovered with further research. Here we first review the general mechanisms by which microbial pathogens bypass mammalian chemokine defences. Broadly, these can be grouped as viral chemokine interacting proteins, microbial manipulation of host chemokine and chemokine receptor expression, microbial blockade of host chemokine receptor signalling, and the largely hypothetical mechanisms of microbial enhancement of host anti-chemokine networks (including digestion, antagonism, and neutralisation of host chemokines and chemokine receptors). We then discuss the potential results of these interactions in terms of outcome of infection.
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- Adrian Liston
- Immunogenomics Laboratory, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Australia
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Jha P, Kotwal GJ. Vaccinia complement control protein: multi-functional protein and a potential wonder drug. J Biosci 2003; 28:265-71. [PMID: 12734405 DOI: 10.1007/bf02970146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Vaccinia virus complement control protein (VCP) was one of the first viral molecules demonstrated to have a role in blocking complement and hence in the evasion of host defense. Structurally it is very similar to the human C4b-BP and the other members of complement control protein. Functionally it is most similar to the CR1 protein. VCP blocks both major pathways of complement activation. The crystal structure of VCP was determined a little over a year ago and it is the only known structure of an intact and complete complement control protein. In addition to binding complement, VCP also binds to heparin. These two binding abilities can take place simultaneously and contribute to its many function and to its potential use in several inflammatory diseases, e.g. Alzheimer's disease (AD), CNS injury, xenotransplantation, etc. making it a truly fascinating molecule and potential drug.
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- Purushottam Jha
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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Haig DM, Thomson J, McInnes CJ, Deane DL, Anderson IE, McCaughan CA, Imlach W, Mercer AA, Howard CJ, Fleming SB. A comparison of the anti-inflammatory and immuno-stimulatory activities of orf virus and ovine interleukin-10. Virus Res 2002; 90:303-16. [PMID: 12457984 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1702(02)00252-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Orf virus causes pustular skin lesions (orf) in sheep, goats and humans. The virus encodes an interleukin-10 (orfvIL-10) that is identical in amino acid composition to ovine IL-10 (ovIL-10) over the C terminal two-thirds of the polypeptide, but not in the N terminal third. The immuno-suppressive and immuno-stimulatory activities of orfvIL-10 and ovIL-10 were compared. Both orfvIL-10 and ovIL-10 inhibited TNF-alpha and IL-8 cytokine production from stimulated ovine macrophages and keratinocytes and IFN-gamma and GM-CSF production from peripheral blood lymphocytes. OrfvIL-10 and ovIL-10 co-stimulated both ovine and murine mast cell proliferation in conjunction with IL-3 (ovine) or IL-4 (murine). Isoleucine at position 87 (Ile(87)) of the mature human IL-10 (huIL-10) has been reported as essential for the immuno-stimulatory activity of huIL-10. In spite of the differences in amino acids within the N-terminal third of orfvIL-10 compared with ovIL-10 and substitution of Ile(87) with Ala(87) in ovIL-10, these variants of ovIL-10 and orfvIL-10 all co-stimulated mast cell proliferation and inhibited macrophage IL-8 production. As ovIL-10 and orfvIL-10 have a similar structure to huIL-10 and conserved receptor-binding residues, it was concluded that Ile(87) is not essential for IL-10 immuno-stimulatory activity. Finally, ovine keratinocytes do not express ovIL-10. This might explain why orf virus has evolved a viral IL-10.
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- David M Haig
- The Moredun Research Institute, International Research Center, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, EH26 0PZ, Penicuik,
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Gotoh B, Komatsu T, Takeuchi K, Yokoo J. Paramyxovirus strategies for evading the interferon response. Rev Med Virol 2002; 12:337-57. [PMID: 12410527 DOI: 10.1002/rmv.357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Two genera, the Respirovirus (Sendai virus (SeV) and human parainfluenza virus (hPIV3) and the Rubulavirus (simian virus (SV) 5, SV41, mumps virus and hPIV2), of the three in the subfamily Paramyxovirinae inhibit interferon (IFN) signalling to circumvent the IFN response. The viral protein responsible for the inhibition is the C protein for respirovirus SeV and the V protein for the rubulaviruses, both of which are multifunctional accessory proteins expressed from the P gene. SeV suppresses IFN-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) at an early phase of infection and further inhibits the downstream signalling without degrading any of the signalling components in most cell lines. On the contrary, the Rubulavirus V protein targets Stat1 or Stat2 for degradation. Proteasome-mediated degradation appears to be involved in most cases. Studies on the molecular mechanisms by which paramyxoviruses evade the IFN response will offer important information for modulating the JAK-STAT pathway, designing novel antiviral drugs and recombinant live vaccines, and improving paramyxovirus expression vectors for gene therapy.
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- Bin Gotoh
- Department of Microbiology, Fukui Medical University School of Medicine, Shimoaizuki 23-3, Matsuoka-cho, Yoshida-gun, Fukui 910-1193, Japan.
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Viral infection of a host leads to induction of an immune system attack against the virus along with a counterattack by the virus against the host. Interferons are highly upregulated upon viral infection and function as key regulators of the host innate defense system. Whereas many RNA viruses are sensitive to the effects of interferon, several of the large DNA viruses are relatively resistant, given their capacity to encode proteins that disarms the host response. The herpesvirus family is a large and diverse family of viruses that infects vertebrates and invertebrates and possesses the ability to remain latent in their host for life. This paper summarizes the relationship between herpesviruses and interferon, including the ability of herpesviruses to induce interferon production, mechanisms by which interferon decreases herpesvirus replication, and strategies of herpesviruses to counteract these mechanisms.
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- Karen L Mossman
- Centre for Gene Therapeutics, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Haig DM, Thomson J, McInnes C, McCaughan C, Imlach W, Mercer A, Fleming S. Orf virus immuno-modulation and the host immune response. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2002; 87:395-9. [PMID: 12072264 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2427(02)00087-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Orf virus encodes a range of immuno-modulatory genes that interfere with host anti-virus immune and inflammatory effector mechanisms. The function of these reflects the pathogenesis of orf. The orf virus interferon resistance protein (OVIFNR) and virus IL-10 (vIL-10) inhibit interferon production and activity. In addition the vIL-10 suppresses inflammatory cytokine production by activated macrophages and keratinocytes. The virus GM-CSF inhibitory factor (GIF) is a novel virus protein that binds to and inhibits the biological activity of GM-CSF and IL-2. Together, these immuno-modulators target key effector mechanisms of host anti-virus immunity to allow time for virus replication in epidermal cells.
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- David M Haig
- Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik EH26 0PZ, UK.
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Orf virus is a DNA parapoxvirus that causes orf, an acute debilitating skin disease of sheep, goats and humans. In sheep, a vigorous immune response involving neutrophils, dermal dendritic cells, T cells, B cells and antibody is generated after infection. CD4(+) T cells, IFN-gamma and to a lesser extent CD8(+) T cells are involved in partial protection against infection. In spite of this, orf virus can repeatedly infect sheep albeit with reduced lesion size and time to resolution compared to primary infection. This is due at least in part to the action of virus immuno-modulator proteins that interfere with host immune and inflammatory responses. These include: an interferon resistance protein; a viral orthologue of mammalian IL-10 (vIL-10) that is an anti-inflammatory cytokine; and a novel inhibitor of the cytokines GM-CSF and IL-2 (GIF). The virus also encodes a virulence protein that is an orthologue of mammalian vascular endothelial growth factor. The study of the immuno-modulator proteins provides an insight into disease pathogenesis and important elements of a host protective response. This information will be used to devise a rational disease control strategy.
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- David M Haig
- Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, EH26 OPZ, Scotland, Penicuik, UK.
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