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Saied AA, Metwally AA, Mohamed HMA, Haridy MAM. The contribution of bovines to human health against viral infections. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 28:46999-47023. [PMID: 34272669 PMCID: PMC8284698 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14941-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 06/12/2021] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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In the last 40 years, novel viruses have evolved at a much faster pace than other pathogens. Viral diseases pose a significant threat to public health around the world. Bovines have a longstanding history of significant contributions to human nutrition, agricultural, industrial purposes, medical research, drug and vaccine development, and livelihood. The life cycle, genomic structures, viral proteins, and pathophysiology of bovine viruses studied in vitro paved the way for understanding the human counterparts. Calf model has been used for testing vaccines against RSV, papillomavirus vaccines and anti-HCV agents were principally developed after using the BPV and BVDV model, respectively. Some bovine viruses-based vaccines (BPIV-3 and bovine rotaviruses) were successfully developed, clinically tried, and commercially produced. Cows, immunized with HIV envelope glycoprotein, produced effective broadly neutralizing antibodies in their serum and colostrum against HIV. Here, we have summarized a few examples of human viral infections for which the use of bovines has contributed to the acquisition of new knowledge to improve human health against viral infections covering the convergence between some human and bovine viruses and using bovines as disease models. Additionally, the production of vaccines and drugs, bovine-based products were covered, and the precautions in dealing with bovines and bovine-based materials.
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- AbdulRahman A Saied
- Department of Food Establishments Licensing (Aswan Branch), National Food Safety Authority (NFSA), Aswan, 81511, Egypt.
- Touristic Activities and Interior Offices Sector (Aswan Office), Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Aswan, 81511, Egypt.
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- Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aswan University, Aswan, 81511, Egypt
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, 83523, Egypt
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- Department of Pathology and Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, 83523, Egypt.
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Veenhuis RT, Abreu CM, Shirk EN, Gama L, Clements JE. HIV replication and latency in monocytes and macrophages. Semin Immunol 2021; 51:101472. [PMID: 33648815 PMCID: PMC10171083 DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2021.101472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 02/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The relevance of monocyte and macrophage reservoirs in virally suppressed people with HIV (vsPWH) has previously been debatable. Macrophages were assumed to have a moderate life span and lack self-renewing potential. However, recent studies have challenged this dogma and now suggest an important role of these cell as long-lived HIV reservoirs. Lentiviruses have a long-documented association with macrophages and abundant evidence exists that macrophages are important target cells for HIV in vivo. A critical understanding of HIV infection, replication, and latency in macrophages is needed in order to determine the appropriate method of measuring and eliminating this cellular reservoir. This review provides a brief discussion of the biology and acute and chronic infection of monocytes and macrophages, with a more substantial focus on replication, latency and measurement of the reservoir in cells of myeloid origin.
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- Rebecca T Veenhuis
- Department of Molecular and Comparative Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States; Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
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Abreu C, Shirk EN, Queen SE, Beck SE, Mangus LM, Pate KAM, Mankowski JL, Gama L, Clements JE. Brain macrophages harbor latent, infectious simian immunodeficiency virus. AIDS 2019; 33 Suppl 2:S181-S188. [PMID: 31789817 PMCID: PMC7058191 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000002269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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: The current review examines the role of brain macrophages, that is perivascular macrophages and microglia, as a potential viral reservoir in antiretroviral therapy (ART) treated, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected macaques. The role, if any, of latent viral reservoirs of HIV and SIV in the central nervous system during ART suppression is an unresolved issue. HIV and SIV infect both CD4 lymphocytes and myeloid cells in blood and tissues during acute and chronic infection. HIV spread to the brain occurs during acute infection by the infiltration of activated CD4 lymphocytes and monocytes from blood and is established in both embryonically derived resident microglia and monocyte-derived perivascular macrophages. ART controls viral replication in peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid in HIV-infected individuals but does not directly eliminate infected cells in blood, tissues or brain. Latently infected resting CD4 lymphocytes in blood and lymphoid tissues are a well recognized viral reservoir that can rebound once ART is withdrawn. In contrast, central nervous system resident microglia and perivascular macrophages in brain have not been examined as potential reservoirs for HIV during suppressive ART. Macrophages in tissues are long-lived cells that are HIV and SIV infected in tissues such as gut, lung, spleen, lymph node and brain and contribute to ongoing inflammation in tissues. However, their potential role in viral persistence and latency or their potential to rebound in the absence ART has not been examined. It has been shown that measurement of HIV latency by HIV DNA PCR in CD4 lymphocytes overestimates the size of the latent reservoirs of HIV that contribute to rebound that is cells containing the genomes of replicative viruses. Thus, the quantitative viral outgrowth assay has been used as a reliable measure of the number of latent cells that harbor infectious viral DNA and, may constitute a functional latent reservoir. Using quantitative viral outgrowth assays specifically designed to quantitate latently infected CD4 lymphocytes and myeloid cells in an SIV macaque model, we demonstrated that macrophages in brain harbor SIV genomes that reactivate and produce infectious virus in this assay, demonstrating that these cells have the potential to be a reservoir.
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- Celina Abreu
- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
- Department of Neurology
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
- Department of Neurology
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Abreu C, Shirk EN, Queen SE, Mankowski JL, Gama L, Clements JE. A Quantitative Approach to SIV Functional Latency in Brain Macrophages. J Neuroimmune Pharmacol 2019; 14:23-32. [PMID: 30167896 PMCID: PMC9070040 DOI: 10.1007/s11481-018-9803-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Lentiviruses are retroviruses that primarily infect myeloid cells, leading to acute inflammatory infections in many tissues particularly, lung, joints and the central nervous system (CNS). Acute infection by lentiviruses is followed by persistent/latent infections that are not cleared by the host immune system. HIV and SIV are lentiviruses that also infect CD4+ lymphocytes as well as myeloid cells in blood and multiple tissues. HIV infection of myeloid cells in brain, lung and heart cause tissue specific diseases as well as infect cells in gut, lymph nodes and spleen. AIDS dementia and other tissue specific disease are observed when infected individuals are immunosuppressed and the number of circulating CD4+ T cells declines to low levels. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) controls viral spread and dramatically changes the course of immunodeficiency and AIDS dementia. However, ART does not eliminate virus-infected cells. Brain macrophages contain HIV DNA and may represent a latent reservoir that persists. HIV latency in CD4+ lymphocytes is the main focus of current research and concern in efforts to eradicate HIV. However, a number of studies have demonstrated that myeloid cells in blood and tissues of ART suppressed individuals harbor HIV DNA. The resident macrophages in tissues such as brain (microglia), spleen (red pulp macrophages) and alveolar macrophages in lung are derived from the yolk sac and can self renew. The question of the latent myeloid reservoir in HIV has not been rigorously examined and its potential as a barrier to eradication been considered. Using a well characterized SIV ART suppressed, non-human primate (NHP) model, our laboratory developed the first quantitative viral outgrowth assay (QVOA) designed to evaluate latently infected CD4+ lymphocytes and more recently developed a similar protocol for the assessment of latently infected myeloid cells in blood and brain. Using an SIV ART model, it was demonstrated that myeloid cells in blood and brain harbor latent SIV that can be reactivated and produce infectious virus in vitro. These studies demonstrate for the first time that myeloid cells have the potential to be a latent reservoir of HIV that produces infectious virus that can be reactivated in the absence of ART and during HIV eradication strategies. Graphical Abstract.
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- Celina Abreu
- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
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Gama L, Abreu C, Shirk EN, Queen SE, Beck SE, Metcalf Pate KA, Bullock BT, Zink MC, Mankowski JL, Clements JE. SIV Latency in Macrophages in the CNS. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2018; 417:111-130. [PMID: 29770863 DOI: 10.1007/82_2018_89] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Lentiviruses infect myeloid cells, leading to acute infection followed by persistent/latent infections not cleared by the host immune system. HIV and SIV are lentiviruses that infect CD4+ lymphocytes in addition to myeloid cells in blood and tissues. HIV infection of myeloid cells in brain, lung, and heart causes tissue-specific diseases that are mostly observed during severe immunosuppression, when the number of circulating CD4+ T cells declines to exceeding low levels. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) controls viral replication but does not successfully eliminate latent virus, which leads to viral rebound once ART is interrupted. HIV latency in CD4+ lymphocytes is the main focus of research and concern when HIV eradication efforts are considered. However, myeloid cells in tissues are long-lived and have not been routinely examined as a potential reservoir. Based on a quantitative viral outgrowth assay (QVOA) designed to evaluate latently infected CD4+ lymphocytes, a similar protocol was developed for the assessment of latently infected myeloid cells in blood and tissues. Using an SIV ART model, it was demonstrated that myeloid cells in blood and brain harbor latent SIV that can be reactivated and produce infectious virus in vitro, demonstrating that myeloid cells have the potential to be an additional latent reservoir of HIV that should be considered during HIV eradication strategies.
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- Lucio Gama
- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.,Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. .,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. .,Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
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Bhatia S, Patil SS, Sood R. Bovine immunodeficiency virus: a lentiviral infection. INDIAN JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY : AN OFFICIAL ORGAN OF INDIAN VIROLOGICAL SOCIETY 2013; 24:332-41. [PMID: 24426295 DOI: 10.1007/s13337-013-0165-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2013] [Accepted: 09/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) is a lentivirus which is known to infect cattle worldwide. Though serological and genomic evidence of BIV in cattle has been found throughout the world, isolation of the virus has been reported only from few places. Very little is known about its impact on animal health status, pathogenesis and mode of transmission. BIV is considered generally non-pathogenic and is not known to cause any serious disease in cattle. BIV is genetically and antigenically related to Jembrana disease virus (JDV), the cause of an acute disease in Bali cattle (Bos javanicus) and human immunodeficiency virus, the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in human. Therefore, it is important to monitor the presence of BIV in cattle to keep vigil over its possible evolution in its natural host to emerge as pathogenic lentivirus like JDV. Differentiation of BIV infection in cattle from the acutely pathogenic JDV is important for diagnosis of the latter. Currently, BIV is considered as a safe model for understanding the complex genome of lentiviruses. Further research on BIV is indeed needed to elucidate its possible role in animal health as well as for insight into the molecular mechanisms adopted by related lentiviruses.
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- Sandeep Bhatia
- High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Bhopal, India
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- Project Directorate on Animal Disease Monitoring and Surveillance (PD-ADMAS), Bengaluru, India
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- High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Bhopal, India
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Gregory L, Lara M, Kiraly A, Hasegawa M, Rizzo H, Henriques L, Rossi R, Castro R. Pesquisa de anticorpos contra Maedi-Visna em ovinos nas microrregiões de Botucatu, Campinas, Piedade e São Paulo, Estado de São Paulo. ARQUIVOS DO INSTITUTO BIOLÓGICO 2013. [DOI: 10.1590/s1808-16572013000100016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a ocorrência da infecção pelo vírus Maedi-Visna em ovinos criados nas microrregiões de Botucatu, Campinas, Piedade e São Paulo do Estado de São Paulo. As amostras de soro sanguíneo foram colhidas de 226 ovinos e foi realizada a técnica de imunodifusão em gel de ágar para a detecção de anticorpos antivírus Maedi-Visna e verificou-se que nenhuma das amostras testadas foi sororeagente. Dessa forma, faz-se necessário um estudo mais amplo no estado, a fim de se confirmar a baixa ocorrência e importância da enfermidade no estado.
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- Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária Pio Décimo, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brasil
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Liu L, Wan Y, Wu L, Sun J, Li H, Li H, Ma L, Shao Y. Broader HIV-1 neutralizing antibody responses induced by envelope glycoprotein mutants based on the EIAV attenuated vaccine. Retrovirology 2010; 7:71. [PMID: 20807451 PMCID: PMC2940887 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-7-71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2010] [Accepted: 09/01/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In order to induce a potent and cross-reactive neutralizing antibody (nAb), an effective envelope immunogen is crucial for many viral vaccines, including the vaccine for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The Chinese equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) attenuated vaccine has controlled the epidemic of this virus after its vaccination in over 70 million equine animals during the last 3 decades in China. Data from our past studies demonstrate that the Env protein of this vaccine plays a pivotal role in protecting horses from both homologous and heterogeneous EIAV challenges. Therefore, the amino acid sequence information from the Chinese EIAV attenuated vaccine, in comparison with the parental wild-type EIAV strains, was applied to modify the corresponding region of the envelope glycoprotein of HIV-1 CN54. The direction of the mutations was made towards the amino acids conserved in the two EIAV vaccine strains, distinguishing them from the two wild-type strains. The purpose of the modification was to enhance the immunogenicity of the HIV Env. RESULTS The induced nAb by the modified HIV Env neutralized HIV-1 B and B'/C viruses at the highest titer of 1:270. Further studies showed that a single amino acid change in the C1 region accounts for the substantial enhancement in induction of anti-HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies. CONCLUSIONS This study shows that an HIV envelope modified by the information of another lentivirus vaccine induces effective broadly neutralizing antibodies. A single amino acid mutation was found to increase the immunogenicity of the HIV Env.
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- Lianxing Liu
- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 155 Changbai Road, Changping District, Beijing 102206, China
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Ali Al Ahmad MZ, Fieni F, Guiguen F, Larrat M, Pellerin JL, Roux C, Chebloune Y. Cultured early goat embryos and cells are susceptible to infection with caprine encephalitis virus. Virology 2006; 353:307-15. [PMID: 16859728 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2006] [Revised: 05/03/2006] [Accepted: 06/06/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Zona-pellucida-free embryos at 8-16 cell stage were co-cultured for 6 days in an insert over a mixed cell monolayer infected with CAEV-pBSCA. Embryos were washed and transferred to an insert on CAEV indicator goat synovial membrane cells for 6 h, then they were washed and cultivated in B2 Ménézo for 24 h, finally, embryo cells were dissociated and cultivated on a feeder monolayer for 8 days. After 5 weeks, multinucleated giant cells typical of CAEV infection were observed in indicator GSM cell monolayers. In the acellular medium, the early embryonic cells produced at least 10(3.25) TCID50/ml over 24 h. The monolayer of cultivated embryonic cells developed cytopathic lesions within 8 days, and CAEV RNA, CAEV proviral DNA and protein p28 of the capsid were detected. All of these results clearly demonstrate that caprine early embryonic cells are susceptible to infection with CAEV and that infection with this virus is productive.
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- M Z Ali Al Ahmad
- Department of Research into the Health Risk and Biotechnology of Reproduction ENVN/DGER, National Veterinary School, BP 40706, 44307 Nantes Cedex 03, France
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Technological advances in the field of gene therapy has prompted more than three hundred phase I and phase II gene-based clinical trials for the treatment of cancer, AIDS, macular degeneration, cardiovascular, and other monogenic diseases. Besides treating diseases, gene transfer technology has been utilized for the development of preventive and therapeutic vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, B and C viruses, AIDS, and influenza. The potential therapeutic applications of gene transfer technology are enormous. The cornea is an excellent candidate for gene therapy because of its accessibility and immune-privileged nature. In the last two decades, various viral vectors, such as adeno, adeno-associated, retro, lenti, and herpes simplex, as well as non-viral methods, were examined for introducing DNA into corneal cells in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo. Most of these studies used fluorescent or non-fluorescent marker genes to track the level and duration of transgene expression in corneal cells. However, limited studies were directed to evaluate prospects of gene-based interventions for corneal diseases or disorders such as allograft rejection, laser-induced post-operative haze, herpes simplex keratitis, and wound healing in animal models. We will review the successes and obstacles impeding gene therapy approaches used for delivering genes into the cornea.
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- Rajiv R Mohan
- The Cole Eye Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave, Mail Code i-31, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
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Shen T, Liang H, Tong X, Fan X, He X, Ma Y, Xiang W, Shen R, Zhang X, Shao Y. Amino acid mutations of the infectious clone from Chinese EIAV attenuated vaccine resulted in reversion of virulence. Vaccine 2005; 24:738-49. [PMID: 16202485 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.08.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2005] [Accepted: 08/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The Chinese equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) donkey-leukocyte attenuated vaccine (DLV) provides a unique natural model system by which attenuated mechanism and immunological control of lentivirus replication may be studied. We analyzed the critical consensus mutations that occurred during the viral passages in vitro and in vivo for vaccine's preparation. Based on the full-length infectious clone pLGFD3 (EIAV vaccine background) and according to mutations displayed during viral attenuation, we successfully constructed an infectious clones pLG5-3-l in which gag and env genes were point-mutated by overlap PCR mutagenesis strategy. pLG5-3-l was proved to have the ability of effective replication in vitro cells culture systems by Reverse Transcriptase Assay and virion observation under electron microscopy. Results of the in vivo experiments indicated that marked differences occurred between the mutated virus and their parental virus in clinical manifestation and plasma viral replication during 6-month observation period. In contrast to asymptom of animals infected with pLGFD3-V, the mutated virus (pLG5-3-l-V) developed typical clinical progression in the corresponding experimentally infected animals. The results of the distinct differences in clinical profiles and viral dynamics before and after mutation of EIAV infectious clone will help to understand the protective mechanism of Chinese EIAV vaccine and shed light on novel HIV vaccine design.
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- Tao Shen
- National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China
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Lamara A, Fieni F, Mselli-Lakhal L, Chatagnon G, Bruyas JF, Tainturier D, Battut I, Fornazero C, Chebloune Y. Early embryonic cells from in vivo-produced goat embryos transmit the caprine arthritis–encephalitis virus (CAEV). Theriogenology 2002; 58:1153-63. [PMID: 12240918 DOI: 10.1016/s0093-691x(02)00950-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The aim of this study was to investigate whether cells of early goat embryos isolated from in vivo-fertilized goats interact with the caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV) in vitro and whether the embryonic zona pellucida (ZP) protects early embryo cells from CAEV infection. ZP-free and ZP-intact 8-16 cell embryos were inoculated for 2 h with CAEVat the 10(4) tissue culture infectious dose 50 (TCID50)/ml. Infected embryos were incubated for 72 h over feeder monolayer containing caprine oviduct epithelial cells (COECs) and CAEV indicator goat synovial membrane (GSM) cells. Noninoculated ZP-free and ZP-intact embryos were submitted to similar treatments and used as controls. Six days postinoculation, infectious virus assay of the wash fluids of inoculated early goat embryos showed typical CAEV-induced cytopathic effects (CPE) on indicator GSM monolayers, with fluids of the first two washes only. The mixed cell monolayer (COEC + GSM) used as feeder cells for CAEV inoculated ZP-free embryos showed CPE. In contrast, none of the feeder monolayers, used for culture of CAEV inoculated ZP-intact embryos or the noninoculated controls, developed any CPE. CAEV exposure apparently did not interfere with development of ZP-free embryos in vitro during the 72 h study period when compared with untreated controls (34.6 and 36% blastocysts, respectively, P > 0.05). From these results one can conclude that the transmission of infectious molecularly cloned CAEV-pBSCA (plasmid binding site CAEV) by embryonic cells from in vivo-produced embryos at the 8-16 cell stages is possible with ZP-free embryos. The absence of interactions between ZP-intact embryos and CAEV in vitro suggests that the ZP is an efficient protective embryo barrier.
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- A Lamara
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Risques Sanitaires liés aux Biotechnologies de la Reproduction, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Nantes, France.
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Wardrop KJ, Baszler TV, Reilich E, Crawford TB. A morphometric study of bone marrow megakaryocytes in foals infected with equine infectious anemia virus. Vet Pathol 1996; 33:222-7. [PMID: 8801716 DOI: 10.1177/030098589603300212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Morphometric evaluation of bone marrow core biopsies was used to determine megakaryocyte (MK) numbers and MK size in nine foals with equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV)-induced thrombocytopenia. Both immunocompetent normal foals and foals with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) were used. Platelet counts were made three times weekly following viral infection. Bone marrow core biopsies were taken from the ilium of each foal prior to experimental infection, immediately after the onset of thrombocytopenia, and at necropsy. All foals developed thrombocytopenia by 23 days postinfection. The bone marrow MK density did not change in response to the thrombocytopenia. MK area did not change significantly; however, the MK nuclear area at necropsy was significantly higher than that preinfection. The presence of thrombocytopenia in the SCID foals showed that immune-specific responses were not required for the production of EIAV-induced thrombocytopenia. Furthermore, the lack of a compensatory megakaryocytopoiesis in both SCID and normal foals was consistent with the theory that altered platelet production plays a role in the development of this thrombocytopenia.
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- K J Wardrop
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, USA
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Kraus GA, Zhang W, Fehr MJ, Petrich JW, Wannemuehler Y, Carpenter S. Research at the Interface between Chemistry and Virology: Development of a Molecular Flashlight. Chem Rev 1996; 96:523-536. [PMID: 11848763 DOI: 10.1021/cr9500139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- George A. Kraus
- Department of Chemistry, and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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Henskens YM, Veerman EC, Nieuw Amerongen AV. Cystatins in health and disease. BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY HOPPE-SEYLER 1996; 377:71-86. [PMID: 8868064 DOI: 10.1515/bchm3.1996.377.2.71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Proteolytic enzymes have many physiological functions in plants, bacteria, viruses, protozoa and mammals. They play a role in processes such as food digestion, complement activation or blood coagulation. The action of proteolytic enzymes is biologically controlled by proteinase inhibitors and increasing attention is being paid to the physiological significance of these natural inhibitors in pathological processes. The reason for this growing interest is that uncontrolled proteolysis can lead to irreversible damage e.g. in chronic inflammation or tumor metastasis. This review focusses on the possible role of the cystatins, natural and specific inhibitors of the cysteine proteinases, in pathological processes.
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- Y M Henskens
- Department of Oral Biochemistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Netherlands
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Clements JE, Zink MC. Molecular biology and pathogenesis of animal lentivirus infections. Clin Microbiol Rev 1996; 9:100-17. [PMID: 8665473 PMCID: PMC172884 DOI: 10.1128/cmr.9.1.100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Lentiviruses are a subfamily of retroviruses that are characterized by long incubation periods between infection of the host and the manifestation of clinical disease. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1, the causative agent of AIDS, is the most widely studied lentivirus. However, the lentiviruses that infect sheep, goats, and horses were identified and studied prior to the emergence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1. These and other animal lentiviruses provide important systems in which to investigate the molecular pathogenesis of this family of viruses. This review will focus on two animal lentivirus models: the ovine lentivirus visna virus; and the simian lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus. These animal lentiviruses have been used to examine, in particular, the pathogenesis of lentivirus-induced central nervous system disease as models for humans with AIDS as well as other chronic diseases.
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- J E Clements
- Division of Comparative Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Shterman N, Elroy-Stein O, Morad I, Amitsur M, Kaufmann G. Cleavage of the HIV replication primer tRNALys,3 in human cells expressing bacterial anticodon nuclease. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:1744-9. [PMID: 7784179 PMCID: PMC306931 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.10.1744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Anticodon nuclease is a bacterial restriction enzyme directed against tRNA(Lys). We report that anticodon nuclease also cleaves mammalian tRNA(Lys) molecules, with preference and site specificity shown towards the natural substrate. Expression of the anticodon nuclease core polypeptide PrrC in HeLa cells from a recombinant vaccinia virus elicited cleavage of intracellular tRNA(Lys),3. The data justify an inquiry into the possible application of anticodon nuclease as an inhibitor of tRNA(Lys),3-primed HIV replication. They also indicate that the anticodon region of tRNA(Lys) is a substrate recognition site and suggest that PrrC harbors the enzymatic activity.
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- N Shterman
- Department of Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- M A Gonda
- Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Structure, PRI/DynCorp, National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Maryland 21702
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- G Pétursson
- Institute for Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland, Keldur, Reykjavik
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Hammarskjöld ML, Li H, Rekosh D, Prasad S. Human immunodeficiency virus env expression becomes Rev-independent if the env region is not defined as an intron. J Virol 1994; 68:951-8. [PMID: 8289397 PMCID: PMC236533 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.2.951-958.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Rev protein functions to facilitate export of intron-containing HIV mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. We have previously shown that splice site recognition plays an important role in Rev regulation of HIV env expression. Here we have further analyzed the effects of splice sites on HIV env expression and Rev regulation, using a simian virus 40 late replacement vector system. env expression from the vector became completely Rev-independent when an excisable intron was positioned upstream of the env region, provided that env was not recognized as an intron. Complete Rev regulation was restored either by the insertion of a 5' splice site between the intron and the env open reading frame or by deletion of the 3' splice site of the upstream intron. These results show that 5' splice sites can function as cis-acting repressor sequence (CRS) elements to retain RNA in the nucleus in the absence of Rev. They also indicate that Rev regulation of HIV env expression is critically dependent on whether the env region is defined as an intron. This strengthens the hypothesis that Rev interacts with components of the splicing machinery to release splicing factors and enable export of the mRNA before splicing occurs.
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- M L Hammarskjöld
- Myles H. Thaler Center for AIDS and Human Retrovirus Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908
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This article proposes a series of experiments to determine if cows and sheep could be used as animal models for HIV-1, the AIDS virus. To justify this effort, a substantial case is presented that HIV-1 is a natural recombinant of Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV) and Visna Virus. This natural recombinant may have been inadvertently transferred to humans through the Intensified Smallpox Eradication Program conducted in sub-Saharan Africa in the late 1960s and most of the 1970s.
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Gelman IH, Zhang J, Hailman E, Hanafusa H, Morse SS. Identification and evaluation of new primer sets for the detection of lentivirus proviral DNA. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1992; 8:1981-9. [PMID: 1337258 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1992.8.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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We have developed sets of degenerate oligonucleotides designed to detect pol gene sequences from any member of the lentivirus subfamily when used as primers in amplification techniques such as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This pan-lentivirus-specific primer set (PLSPS) consists of primers, LV1, LV2, and LV3, based on conserved regions common to lentiviruses only. Our protocol is based on primary amplification with LV1 and LV2 followed by secondary amplification with a nested primer set based on the YM/VDD motif found in all reverse transcriptases (or "DDMY," in the opposite direction), and LV3, a block of lentivirus homology nested just downstream of LV1. PLSPS-PCR analysis of DNA from cells infected with HIV-1, HIV-2, SIVmac239, BIV, visna, EIAV, CAEV, OPPV, or FIV resulted in the amplification of appropriately sized products. Sequence analysis of the LV1/2 products, cloned into pBluescript (pBS), indicated that at least 20% (most often, > 80%) contained the predicted lentivirus pol sequence. Greater than 95% of the LV3/DDMY products contained the expected lentiviral sequences. Using the PLSPS, lentivirus pol sequences could typically be detected at levels of one copy in 2 x 10(6) cells after secondary amplification. No specific lentiviral PCR products were detected in DNA from uninfected human or mouse monocytes, feline or bovine leukocytes, mouse, rat or human fibroblast cell lines, chicken embryo fibroblasts, Tahr lung cells, or cell lines infected with the following retroviruses which are not lentiviruses: Rous sarcoma virus, Moloney leukemia virus or Kirsten sarcoma virus, mouse mammary tumor virus, human T-cell lymphotropic virus I, and feline leukemia virus.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- I H Gelman
- Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029
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Cornet B, Decroly E, Thines-Sempoux D, Ruysschaert JM, Vandenbranden M. Properties of HIV membrane reconstituted from its recombinant gp160 envelope glycoprotein. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1992; 8:1823-31. [PMID: 1457195 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1992.8.1823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) membrane has been reconstituted from the recombinant envelope glycoprotein precursor (gp160) by a detergent dialysis technique. Electron microscopy shows that gp160-virosomes are spherical vesicles with a mean diameter identical to that of viral particles. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunogold labeling demonstrate efficient association of gp160 with lipid vesicles and proteolysis treatment reveals an asymmetric insertion with about 90% of glycoproteins having their gp120-moiety pointing outside. Glycoproteins are organized as dimers and tetramers and gp160 retains its ability to specifically bind CD4 receptor after reconstitution into virosome.
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- B Cornet
- Laboratoire de Chimie-Physique des Macromolécules aux Interfaces, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Sellon DC, Perry ST, Coggins L, Fuller FJ. Wild-type equine infectious anemia virus replicates in vivo predominantly in tissue macrophages, not in peripheral blood monocytes. J Virol 1992; 66:5906-13. [PMID: 1382143 PMCID: PMC241467 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.66.10.5906-5913.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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In situ hybridization of tissues from two horses infected with the wild-type Wyoming strain of equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) identified the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, kidney, lung, and adrenal gland as the primary host tissue sites for viral transcription during acute infection. Combined immunohistochemistry, with a monoclonal antibody recognizing a cytoplasmic antigen of equine mononuclear phagocytes, and in situ hybridization for viral RNA identified most infected cells as mature tissue macrophages. In contrast, in situ hybridization of adherent peripheral blood mononuclear cells collected from horses on various days during the first 2 weeks postinfection with the Wyoming strain of EIAV failed to detect any viral RNA in these cells. For the two horses described here, serum reverse transcriptase activity correlated directly with the degree of replication detected in tissue macrophages on the day of sacrifice. These results suggest that unlike other lentivirus infections in which mature tissue macrophages accumulate cytoplasmic viral RNA to a high level but fail to produce infectious virions, mature tissue macrophages are the likely primary source of the high titer of viremia present during acute infection with EIAV. No significant posttranscriptional block of viral replication in tissue macrophages appears to occur with EIAV.
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- D C Sellon
- Department of Microbiology, Pathology, North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh 27606
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In 1981 a new acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was first described. The disease has a 100% mortality rate and over 359,000 cases have been reported to the WHO from 162 countries. The WHO estimates that the cumulative global total of AIDS cases as of early 1991 is more than 1.5 million. The dental profession, in line with other health care professions, is involved with guiding rational efforts to stop transmission and with developing effective means of treatment and prevention. This paper reviews the nature of the virus, its possible origins, and the implications of such origins for treatment and prevention of the disease.
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- A J Smith
- Department of Basic Dental Science, Dental School, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff
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Le Grice SF, Panin M, Kalayjian RC, Richter NJ, Keith G, Darlix JL, Payne SL. Purification and characterization of recombinant equine infectious anemia virus reverse transcriptase. J Virol 1991; 65:7004-7. [PMID: 1719238 PMCID: PMC250816 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.12.7004-7007.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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A 1.67-kb segment of the equine infectious anemia virus pol gene, encoding a 66-kDa reverse transcriptase (RT), was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Recombinant RT, purified by a combination of metal chelate affinity chromatography and ion-exchange chromatography, displays both RNA-dependent DNA polymerase and RNase H activity. The affinity of purified RT for its replication primer, tRNA(3Lys) was equivalent to that observed for human immunodeficiency virus RT. Our data suggest that an additional domain between RT-RNase H and integrase on the equine infectious anemia virus pol open reading frame is not an integral component of the RT polypeptide.
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- S F Le Grice
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44016
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Clabough DL, Gebhard D, Flaherty MT, Whetter LE, Perry ST, Coggins L, Fuller FJ. Immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in horses infected with equine infectious anemia virus. J Virol 1991; 65:6242-51. [PMID: 1717720 PMCID: PMC250322 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.11.6242-6251.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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An adult horse infected with a virulent, cell culture-adapted strain of equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) developed cyclical thrombocytopenia in which the nadir of platelet counts coincided with peak febrile responses. In order to investigate the mechanism of thrombocytopenia during acute febrile episodes, four adult horses were experimentally infected with the wild-type Wyoming strain of EIAV. Platelet counts decreased from baseline as rectal temperature increased. Serum reverse transcriptase activity increased above background levels in all horses, coincident with increase in rectal temperature. All horses developed an EIAV-specific immune response detectable by Western immunoblot by postinfection day 10. Increases in platelet-associated immunoglobulins G and M were detectable by direct fluorescent-antibody test and flow cytometric assay. Viral replication in bone marrow megakaryocytes was not detectable by in situ hybridization. Results suggest an immune-mediated mechanism of thrombocytopenia in horses infected with EIAV. Despite an inability to identify virion particles in association with platelet-bound antibody, the cyclical nature of the thrombocytopenia and the occurrence of a marked cell-free viremia concomitant with fever and thrombocytopenia suggest immune complex deposition on platelets. We propose that clearance of virus and antibody-coated platelets from the peripheral circulation by hepatic Kupffer cells and splenic macrophages may target infectious virus particles, in the form of immune complexes, to host cells most permissive for in vivo viral replication.
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- D L Clabough
- Department of Microbiology, Pathology and Parasitology, North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh 27606
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Alexandersen S, Carpenter S. Characterization of variable regions in the envelope and S3 open reading frame of equine infectious anemia virus. J Virol 1991; 65:4255-62. [PMID: 1649329 PMCID: PMC248863 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.8.4255-4262.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify and clone parts of the envelope gene and overlapping S3 open reading frame, thought to encode rev, of the virulent in vivo-derived Th-1 isolate of equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV). The results indicated that EIAV consists of a heterogeneous mixture of genotypes present at the first febrile cycle after initial infection. We showed that the Th-1 isolate apparently contains nondefective genotypes as well as types which have transmembrane protein truncations or are rev deficient. Furthermore, we could confirm the presence of a hypervariable region in the gp90 envelope glycoprotein. Taken together with earlier data on the heterogeneity of the regulatory motifs present in the long terminal repeat sequences of viruses from the same in vivo isolate (S. Carpenter, S. Alexandersen, M. J. Long, S. Perryman, and B. Chesebro, J. Virol. 65:1605-1610, 1991), our findings indicate that EIAV uses a complex system of diversity in biological phenotypes together with variation in regulatory and antigenic makeup to evade host response and to cause persistent infection and recurrent chronic disease.
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- S Alexandersen
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames 50011
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Carpenter S, Alexandersen S, Long MJ, Perryman S, Chesebro B. Identification of a hypervariable region in the long terminal repeat of equine infectious anemia virus. J Virol 1991; 65:1605-10. [PMID: 1847479 PMCID: PMC239946 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.3.1605-1610.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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An avirulent, field-derived isolate of equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV), designated MA-1, was molecularly cloned, and the complete nucleotide sequence was determined for the 3' half of the viral genome. Comparisons between MA-1 and the prototype Wyoming strain of EIAV identified a 66-nucleotide stretch between CAAT (-91) and TATAA (-25) in the U3 region of the long terminal repeat, where sequence divergence was as high as 39.3%. The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify and clone long terminal repeat sequences from Th-1, the in vivo parental stock of MA-1. Results indicated that the nucleotide sequences of MA-1 and Th-1 clones were less variable than was observed between MA-1 and Wyoming. However, MA-1 and Th-1 markedly differed in the types of enhancer sequences located in the hypervariable region. These results suggest that variation in lentivirus regulatory sequences may be important in EIAV host cell tropism and pathogenesis.
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- S Carpenter
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames 50011
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Carpenter S, Kraus GA. Photosensitization is required for inactivation of equine infectious anemia virus by hypericin. Photochem Photobiol 1991; 53:169-74. [PMID: 1707176 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1991.tb03919.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Hypericin, a photoreactive polycyclic quinone, was found to dramatically reduce infectivity of cell-free stocks of equine infectious anemia virus. However, the antiviral activity of hypericin was completely dependent on the presence of light. Short periods of photosensitization resulted in a partial loss of reverse transcriptase activity and complete inhibition of viral infectivity. These results suggest that the photodynamic effect of hypericin interferes with more than one stage in the virus replication cycle.
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- S Carpenter
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames 50011
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Michaels FH, Banks KL, Reitz MS. Lessons from Caprine and Ovine Retrovirus Infections. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0889-857x(21)00085-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Whetter L, Archambault D, Perry S, Gazit A, Coggins L, Yaniv A, Clabough D, Dahlberg J, Fuller F, Tronick S. Equine infectious anemia virus derived from a molecular clone persistently infects horses. J Virol 1990; 64:5750-6. [PMID: 2173767 PMCID: PMC248720 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.12.5750-5756.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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A full-length molecular clone of equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) was isolated from a persistently infected canine fetal thymus cell line (Cf2Th). Upon transfection of equine dermis cells, the clone, designated CL22, yielded infectious EIAV particles (CL22-V) that replicated in vitro in both Cf2Th cells and an equine dermis cell strain. Horses infected with CL22-V developed an antibody response to viral proteins and possessed viral DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, as determined by polymerase chain reaction assays. In addition, horses infected with CL22-V became persistently infected and were capable of transmitting the infection by transfer of whole blood to uninfected horses. However, CL22-V, like the parental canine cell-adapted virus, did not cause clinical signs in infected horses. Reverse transcriptase assays of CL22-V- and virulent EIAV-infected equine mononuclear cell cultures indicated that the lack of virulence of CL22-V was not due to an inability to infect and replicate in equine mononuclear cells in vitro.
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- L Whetter
- Department of Microbiology, Pathology & Parasitology, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh 27606
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Carter SG, Kessler JA, Rankin CD. Activities of (-)-carbovir and 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine against human immunodeficiency virus in vitro. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1990; 34:1297-300. [PMID: 2393292 PMCID: PMC171808 DOI: 10.1128/aac.34.6.1297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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(-)-Carbovir, the minus optical isomer of carbocyclic-2',3'-didehydro-2',3'-dideoxyguanosine, has been shown to be the biologically active form for the inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication. The concentration of (-)-carbovir required to reduce reverse transcriptase activity by 50% compared with the control was 0.8 microM in H9 cells infected with the HTLV-IIIb strain; the 50% inhibitory concentration for cytotoxicity was greater than 2 mM in these cells. The effect of the timing of drug addition, pre- and postinfection, and the effect of increasing amounts of virus on the antiviral activities of (-)-carbovir and 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine were determined.
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- S G Carter
- Division of Chemotherapy, Glaxo Research Laboratories, Glaxo Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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Wells KH, Poiesz BJ. Biology of retroviruses: detection, molecular biology, and treatment of retroviral infection. J Am Acad Dermatol 1990; 22:1175-95. [PMID: 2193945 DOI: 10.1016/0190-9622(90)70161-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The general physical characteristics and replication of retroviruses are considered, along with assays for viral products. The specific agent for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is characterized as a lentivirus causing persistent, lifelong infection. While human immunodeficiency virus retroviruses share many of the same properties as other replication-competent viruses, genetic variability occurs among HIV isolates, and this variability may have a considerable effect on the virus' virulence, cell type specificity, viral susceptibility to antiviral compounds, clinical presentation, and disease progression. The most notable difference between HIV replication and other retroviruses is the intricate control of HIV gene expression by viral and cellular factors. Possible mechanisms by which HIV kills infected cells include the formulation of multinucleate syncytia; cytopathic components within the virions themselves; and interaction between viral envelope proteins and the CD4 molecule on the cell surface. Agents shown to inhibit viral replication at the level of the reverse transcriptase are phosphonoformate, sulfated polysaccharides, rifabutin, and nucleoside analogs, as well as purine and pyrimidine analogs. To date, only one nucleoside analog, zidovudine, has demonstrated clear clinical benefit and anti-HIV activity.
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- K H Wells
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY-HSC, Syracuse 13210
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Pinto-Alphandary H, Mabilat C, Courvalin P. Emergence of aminoglycoside resistance genes aadA and aadE in the genus Campylobacter. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1990; 34:1294-6. [PMID: 2168151 PMCID: PMC171807 DOI: 10.1128/aac.34.6.1294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Resistance to streptomycin or spectinomycin or both in five Campylobacter coli strains, two Campylobacter jejuni strains, and a Campylobacter-like strain was studied by enzymatic assays and dot blot hybridization. Resistance was due to 6- or 3",9-aminoglycoside adenylyltransferases and to new types of phospho- and adenylyltransferases.
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Hasegawa A, Tsujimoto H, Maki N, Ishikawa K, Miura T, Fukasawa M, Miki K, Hayami M. Genomic divergence of HIV-2 from Ghana. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1989; 5:593-604. [PMID: 2611042 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1989.5.593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Genetic variability in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has been studied extensively, but the total nucleotide sequence of the HIV-2 genome has been reported only in two strains. For phylogenetic analyses of HIV, the genetic variability of HIV-2 should be investigated. This paper reports the complete nucleotide sequence of an HIV-2 isolate from Ghana, HIV-2[GH-1]. This virus showed approximately 85% homology in overall nucleotide sequence with HIV-2ROD. The amino acid sequence of the gag and pol proteins of HIV-2[GH-1] showed 90% homology with those of HIV-2ROD, but its env gene and central regions were highly variable (more than 20% divergence in amino acids), indicating the presence of extensive genetic heterogeneity in HIV-2. However, the sequences with specific functions were relatively well conserved in these HIV-2 isolates.
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- A Hasegawa
- Fundamental Research Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
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Banks KL, Jutila MA, Jacobs CA, Michaels FH. Augmentation of lymphocyte and macrophage proliferation by caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus contributes to the development of progressive arthritis. Rheumatol Int 1989; 9:123-8. [PMID: 2558408 DOI: 10.1007/bf00271868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Infection by the lentivirus, caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV), may lead to an intermittent arthritis due to the presence of lymphocytes and macrophages in synovial membranes. We have observed that the presence of CAEV increases the division of lymphocytes and macrophages. In association, antigen-induced arthritis is more severe in goats concurrently infected by CAEV than in noninfected goats. From these observations we propose that infection by this lentivirus increases reactivity of lymphocytes and macrophages to immune and nonimmune stimuli, leading to the increased likelihood of progressive arthritis in infected animals.
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- K L Banks
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99163
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Olmsted RA, Hirsch VM, Purcell RH, Johnson PR. Nucleotide sequence analysis of feline immunodeficiency virus: genome organization and relationship to other lentiviruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:8088-92. [PMID: 2813380 PMCID: PMC298220 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.20.8088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of an infectious proviral molecular clone (FIV-14) of the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). FIV-14 has a genome organization similar in complexity to other lentiviruses. In addition to three large open reading frames representing the gag, pol, and env genes, at least four small open reading frames are present in the pol-env intergenic, env, and env-3' long terminal repeat regions. Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence alignments of the FIV coding sequences with analogous sequences of other lentiviruses revealed significant identities only in the gag and pol genes. Phylogenetic tree analyses of gag and pol gene-encoded protein sequences demonstrate that FIV is more closely related to the ungulate lentiviruses, equine infectious anemia virus and visna virus, than to the primate lentiviruses, human and simian immunodeficiency viruses.
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- R A Olmsted
- Department of Microbiology, Georgetown University, Rockville, MD 20852
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Regulation of the visna virus long terminal repeat in macrophages involves cellular factors that bind sequences containing AP-1 sites. Mol Cell Biol 1989. [PMID: 2548087 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.6.2728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Visna virus gene expression is highly restricted in monocytes but is induced by monocyte-macrophage differentiation in vivo. Deletion and linker-scanning mutants, gel shift assays, and DNase I footprinting were used to identify sequences in the visna virus long terminal repeat involved in the developmental regulation of gene expression in the U937 monocytic cell line. We found that an AP-1 and an AP-4 binding site were critical for basal activity and that the AP-1 site was required for phorbol ester-inducible gene expression. These results suggest that cellular factors that interact with AP-1 sites are involved in the developmental regulation of visna virus gene expression in macrophages.
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Hess JL, Small JA, Clements JE. Sequences in the visna virus long terminal repeat that control transcriptional activity and respond to viral trans-activation: involvement of AP-1 sites in basal activity and trans-activation. J Virol 1989; 63:3001-15. [PMID: 2542608 PMCID: PMC250855 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.7.3001-3015.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Visna virus is a pathogenic lentivirus of sheep whose gene expression is developmentally regulated in cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage. Gene expression directed by the visna virus long terminal repeat (LTR) is increased in infected cells by a virus-encoded trans-acting protein. trans-Activation is mediated in part by increases in the steady-state level of mRNA. Deletion and linker-scanner mutants were constructed to locate sequences in the LTR that regulate transcription and are responsive to viral trans-activation. The activities of these mutants were tested by using them to drive transcription of the bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase in transient expression assays. Three regions located between-140 and the cap site were found to be important for basal transcriptional activity, and the importance of each region was found to be dependent on the cell type. Sequences responsive to viral trans-activation were found to be the same sequences required for basal transcriptional activity. The visna virus LTR contains six sequences that are homologous to the recognition site for cellular transcriptional factor AP-1 and a single sequence homologous to the recognition site for transcriptional factor AP-4. Both of these classes of binding sites appear to be important for regulating the basal level of transcription of visna virus. The AP-1-binding site most proximal to the TATA box was found to be one target for viral trans-activation. The visna virus promoter was found to be activated by serum; this serum response has also been mapped to the AP-1-related sequences in the LTR.
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- J L Hess
- Department of Comparative Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Carpenter S, Chesebro B. Change in host cell tropism associated with in vitro replication of equine infectious anemia virus. J Virol 1989; 63:2492-6. [PMID: 2470916 PMCID: PMC250709 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.6.2492-2496.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Similar to other human and animal lentiviruses, equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) is detectable in vivo in cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage. Owing to their short-lived nature, horse peripheral blood macrophage cultures (HMC) are rarely used for in vitro propagation of EIAV, and equine dermal (ED) or kidney cell cultures, which can be repeatedly passed in vitro, are used in most studies. However, wild-type isolates of EIAV will not grow in these cell types without extensive adaptation, a process which may attenuate viral virulence. To better define the effect of host cell tropism on the virulence and pathogenesis of EIAV, we studied a field isolate of EIAV during in vitro adaptation to growth in an ED cell line. Interestingly, as the virus adapted to growth in ED cells, there was a corresponding decrease in infectivity for HMC, and the final ED-adapted isolate was more than 100-fold more infectious for ED cells than for HMC. In vivo studies indicated that the ED-adapted isolate was able to replicate in experimentally infected horses, although no clinical signs of EIA were observed. Thus, selection for in vitro replication on ED cells correlated with a loss of EIAV tropism for HMC in vitro and was associated with avirulence in vivo.
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- S Carpenter
- Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, Montana 59840
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Gabuzda DH, Hess JL, Small JA, Clements JE. Regulation of the visna virus long terminal repeat in macrophages involves cellular factors that bind sequences containing AP-1 sites. Mol Cell Biol 1989; 9:2728-33. [PMID: 2548087 PMCID: PMC362346 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.6.2728-2733.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Visna virus gene expression is highly restricted in monocytes but is induced by monocyte-macrophage differentiation in vivo. Deletion and linker-scanning mutants, gel shift assays, and DNase I footprinting were used to identify sequences in the visna virus long terminal repeat involved in the developmental regulation of gene expression in the U937 monocytic cell line. We found that an AP-1 and an AP-4 binding site were critical for basal activity and that the AP-1 site was required for phorbol ester-inducible gene expression. These results suggest that cellular factors that interact with AP-1 sites are involved in the developmental regulation of visna virus gene expression in macrophages.
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- D H Gabuzda
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Small JA, Bieberich C, Ghotbi Z, Hess J, Scangos GA, Clements JE. The visna virus long terminal repeat directs expression of a reporter gene in activated macrophages, lymphocytes, and the central nervous systems of transgenic mice. J Virol 1989; 63:1891-6. [PMID: 2539492 PMCID: PMC250600 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.5.1891-1896.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Visna virus is a lentivirus which causes a slow progressive disease involving the immune system and the central nervous system. To determine the role of the viral long terminal repeat (LTR) in targeting the virus to specific host cells and tissues, transgenic mice were constructed which contained the visna virus LTR directing expression of the bacterial gene encoding chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). Analysis of the transgenic mouse tissues for CAT activity revealed that the viral LTR was responsible, in part, for the tropism of visna virus for macrophages and the central nervous system. Expression of the LTR required the macrophage to be in an activated state both in vivo and in vitro. Thioglycolate activation of peritoneal macrophages in vivo and 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate treatment in vitro induced expression of the visna virus LTR. Lymphocytes from the spleens of the transgenic mice expressed CAT activity, suggesting that visna virus was able to replicate in lymphocytes, as did human immunodeficiency virus and simian immunodeficiency virus. These studies demonstrated that the lentivirus LTR was responsible, in part, for cell and tissue tropism in vivo.
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- J A Small
- Division of Comparative Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Olmsted RA, Barnes AK, Yamamoto JK, Hirsch VM, Purcell RH, Johnson PR. Molecular cloning of feline immunodeficiency virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:2448-52. [PMID: 2928341 PMCID: PMC286930 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.7.2448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a T-lymphotropic retrovirus associated with immunodeficiency and opportunistic infections in cats. The discovery of FIV provides an opportunity for the development of a small animal model for AIDS. To initiate the molecular and biological characterization of FIV, cDNA clones were synthesized and used to isolate a proviral clone of FIV. Molecular cross-hybridization analysis of FIV with five lentiviruses revealed that nucleotide-sequence similarities exist between FIV and these lentiviruses in the gag-pol genes. However, nucleotide-sequence similarities were not seen upon comparison of the FIV long terminal repeat sequence with known viral sequences. Common antigenic determinants appeared to be shared by FIV, caprine arthritis encephalitis virus, and visna virus as shown by serological cross-reactivity of rabbit antibodies to caprine arthritis encephalitis virus and visna virus with the putative FIV core protein p28. These studies demonstrated that FIV is a member of the lentivirus subfamily and is distantly related to the AIDS lentiviruses of primates. Importantly, progeny virions of our molecular clone were infectious for experimentally inoculated cats. The availability of an infectious molecular clone will make possible a detailed dissection of the molecular pathogenesis of FIV, which may facilitate the development of vaccine and therapeutic strategies for AIDS.
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- R A Olmsted
- Department of Microbiology, Georgetown University, Rockville, MD 20852
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- Z F Rosenberg
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Nervous System. Nurs Clin North Am 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0029-6465(22)01439-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Maurer B, Flügel RM. Genomic organization of the human spumaretrovirus and its relatedness to AIDS and other retroviruses. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1988; 4:467-73. [PMID: 2851307 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1988.4.467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The human spumaretrovirus (HSRV) isolated from a nasopharynx carcinoma patient 17 years ago has a RNA genome 11 kb in size. It encodes besides the gag, pol, and env genes several novel genes (S1 and bel 1, 2, and 3) that are comparable to the regulatory genes R, X, tat, art, and 3'-orf of the human (HIVs) and simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) with respect to genomic location and to sizes of the putative gene products. A comparison between the HIV protein sequences of the pol and the novel genes to the corresponding gene product sequences of HSRV revealed that HSRV is related to the lentiviruses but occupies a distinct phylogenetic placement of its own. A detailed analysis of the reverse transcriptase domain allows the construction of a phylogenetic tree for the known retroviral subfamilies and/or groups, including the oncoviruses, the lentiviruses, the spumaviruses, the HLTV-BLV group, and the D-type viruses. Regions of the putative novel HSRV gene products with segmental protein sequence homology to the regulatory protein of other human retroviruses are discussed. The results strengthen the view that HSRV and its novel genes should be studied in comparison to the new genes of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) viruses and human T cell leukemia viruses (HTLV).
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- B Maurer
- Institut für Virusforschung, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, FRG
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Baroni CD, Pezzella F, Pezzella M, Macchi B, Vitolo D, Uccini S, Ruco LP. Expression of HIV in lymph node cells of LAS patients. Immunohistology, in situ hybridization, and identification of target cells. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 1988; 133:498-506. [PMID: 3202117 PMCID: PMC1880809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Monoclonal antibodies (MAb) anti-HIV core and envelope proteins and in situ hybridization, using cDNA HIV probe, were employed to determine which lymph node cells in LAS patients express viral antigens and viral nucleic acids. The results have been correlated with the histologic phases of LAS and with the germinal center lysis detected using DRC-1 MAb directed against follicular dendritic reticulum cells (FDRC). Viral antigens occasionally were detected on high endothelial cells of paracortical venules and frequently on germinal center FDR accessory cells; this last finding correlates well with the extent of FDRC lysis and of CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocyte infiltration in germinal centers. HIV replication, detected by in situ hybridization, was observed in mononucleated cells present in T and B areas and, in one case, in flat endothelium.
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- C D Baroni
- Second Chair of Pathological Anatomy, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Tsujimoto H, Cooper RW, Kodama T, Fukasawa M, Miura T, Ohta Y, Ishikawa K, Nakai M, Frost E, Roelants GE. Isolation and characterization of simian immunodeficiency virus from mandrills in Africa and its relationship to other human and simian immunodeficiency viruses. J Virol 1988; 62:4044-50. [PMID: 3172337 PMCID: PMC253834 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.11.4044-4050.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Two isolates of simian retrovirus related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were obtained from apparently healthy mandrills, Papio (Mandrillus) sphinx, in western equatorial Africa. This virus, designated SIVMND (simian immunodeficiency virus from mandrills), appeared morphologically similar to HIV by electron microscopy, showed Mg2+-dependent reverse transcriptase activity, and induced cytopathic effect in human CD4-positive cells. Western blotting (immunoblotting) analyses revealed that the gag and pol products of SIVMND showed cross-reactivity with those of known HIVs and SIVs. Molecular clones covering full-length viral DNA were obtained from closed circular extrachromosomal DNA of SIVMND-infected cells. By clone-on-clone hybridization with known retroviruses of the HIV and SIV groups, SIVMND showed similar cross-hybridization with HIV-1, HIV-2, SIVAGM (African green monkey-derived SIV), and SIVMAC (rhesus macaque-derived SIV) in the gag and pol regions only at low stringency but not at high stringency, a result indicating that SIVMND is a new member of the HIV-SIV group. The existence of distinct SIVs in different monkey species suggest that recent interspecies transfer of HIV-SIV is unlikely in nature.
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- H Tsujimoto
- Department of Animal Pathology, University of Tokyo, Japan
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