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Hogan CH, Owens SM, Reynoso GV, Liao Y, Meyer TJ, Zelazowska MA, Liu B, Li X, Grosskopf AK, Khairallah C, Kirillov V, Reich NC, Sheridan BS, McBride KM, Gewurz BE, Hickman HD, Forrest JC, Krug LT. Multifaceted roles for STAT3 in gammaherpesvirus latency revealed through in vivo B cell knockout models. mBio 2024; 15:e0299823. [PMID: 38170993 PMCID: PMC10870824 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02998-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Cancers associated with the oncogenic gammaherpesviruses, Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus, are notable for their constitutive activation of the transcription factor signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3). To better understand the role of STAT3 during gammaherpesvirus latency and the B cell response to infection, we used the model pathogen murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68). Genetic deletion of STAT3 in B cells of CD19cre/+Stat3f/f mice reduced peak MHV68 latency approximately sevenfold. However, infected CD19cre/+Stat3f/f mice exhibited disordered germinal centers and heightened virus-specific CD8 T cell responses compared to wild-type (WT) littermates. To circumvent the systemic immune alterations observed in the B cell-STAT3 knockout mice and more directly evaluate intrinsic roles for STAT3, we generated mixed bone marrow chimeric mice consisting of WT and STAT3 knockout B cells. We discovered a dramatic reduction in latency in STAT3 knockout B cells compared to their WT B cell counterparts in the same lymphoid organ. RNA sequencing of sorted germinal center B cells revealed that MHV68 infection shifts the gene signature toward proliferation and away from type I and type II IFN responses. Loss of STAT3 largely reversed the virus-driven transcriptional shift without impacting the viral gene expression program. STAT3 promoted B cell processes of the germinal center, including IL-21-stimulated downregulation of surface CD23 on B cells infected with MHV68 or EBV. Together, our data provide mechanistic insights into the role of STAT3 as a latency determinant in B cells for oncogenic gammaherpesviruses.IMPORTANCEThere are no directed therapies to the latency program of the human gammaherpesviruses, Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus. Activated host factor signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is a hallmark of cancers caused by these viruses. We applied the murine gammaherpesvirus pathogen system to explore STAT3 function upon primary B cell infection in the host. Since STAT3 deletion in all CD19+ B cells of infected mice led to altered B and T cell responses, we generated chimeric mice with both normal and STAT3-deleted B cells. B cells lacking STAT3 failed to support virus latency compared to normal B cells from the same infected animal. Loss of STAT3 impaired B cell proliferation and differentiation and led to a striking upregulation of interferon-stimulated genes. These findings expand our understanding of STAT3-dependent processes that are key to its function as a pro-viral latency determinant for oncogenic gammaherpesviruses in B cells and may provide novel therapeutic targets.
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- Chad H. Hogan
- Graduate Program in Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- HIV & AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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- Viral Immunity and Pathogenesis Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- HIV & AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- HIV & AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Harvard Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Viral Immunity and Pathogenesis Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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- HIV & AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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Vragel G, Gomez BD, Kostelecky RE, Noell KS, Tseng A, Cohen S, Dalwadi M, Medina EM, Nail EA, Goodspeed A, Clambey ET, van Dyk LF. Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68 Efficiently Infects Myeloid Cells Resulting In An Atypical, Restricted Form Of Infection. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.06.21.545948. [PMID: 37425871 PMCID: PMC10327065 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.21.545948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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The gammaherpesviruses (γHVs) establish a lifelong infection in their hosts, with the cellular outcome of infection intimately regulated by target cell type. Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68), a small animal model of γHV infection, infects macrophages in vivo, resulting in a range of outcomes, from lytic replication to latent infection. Here, we have further investigated the nature of MHV68 macrophage infection using reductionist and primary in vivo infection studies. While MHV68 readily infected the J774 macrophage cell line, viral gene expression and replication were significantly impaired relative to a fully permissive fibroblast cell line. Lytic replication only occurred in a small subset of MHV68-infected J774 cells, despite the fact that these cells were fully competent to support lytic replication following pre-treatment with interleukin-4, a known potentiator of replication in macrophages. In parallel, we harvested virally-infected macrophages at 16 hours after MHV68 infection in vivo and analyzed gene expression by single cell RNA-sequencing. Among virally infected macrophages, only rare (0.25%) cells had lytic cycle gene expression, characterized by detection of multiple lytic cycle RNAs. In contrast, ~50% of virally-infected macrophages were characterized by expression of ORF75A, ORF75B and/or ORF75C, in the absence of other detectable viral RNAs. Selective transcription of the ORF75 locus also occurred in MHV68-infected J774 cells. In total, these studies indicate that MHV68 efficiently infects macrophages, with the majority of cells characterized by an atypical state of restricted viral transcription, and only rare cells undergoing lytic replication.
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- Gabrielle Vragel
- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
- University of Colorado Cancer Center, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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Zarrella K, Longmire P, Zeltzer S, Collins-McMillen D, Hancock M, Buehler J, Reitsma JM, Terhune SS, Nelson JA, Goodrum F. Human cytomegalovirus UL138 interaction with USP1 activates STAT1 in infection. PLoS Pathog 2023; 19:e1011185. [PMID: 37289831 PMCID: PMC10284425 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Innate immune responses are crucial for limiting virus infection. However, viruses often hijack our best defenses for viral objectives. Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a beta herpesvirus which establishes a life-long latent infection. Defining the virus-host interactions controlling latency and reactivation is vital to the control of viral disease risk posed by virus reactivation. We defined an interaction between UL138, a pro-latency HCMV gene, and the host deubiquitinating complex, UAF1-USP1. UAF1 is a scaffold protein pivotal for the activity of ubiquitin specific peptidases (USP), including USP1. UAF1-USP1 sustains an innate immune response through the phosphorylation and activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription-1 (pSTAT1), as well as regulates the DNA damage response. After the onset of viral DNA synthesis, pSTAT1 levels are elevated in infection and this depends upon UL138 and USP1. pSTAT1 localizes to viral centers of replication, binds to the viral genome, and influences UL138 expression. Inhibition of USP1 results in a failure to establish latency, marked by increased viral genome replication and production of viral progeny. Inhibition of Jak-STAT signaling also results in increased viral genome synthesis in hematopoietic cells, consistent with a role for USP1-mediated regulation of STAT1 signaling in the establishment of latency. These findings demonstrate the importance of the UL138-UAF1-USP1 virus-host interaction in regulating HCMV latency establishment through the control of innate immune signaling. It will be important going forward to distinguish roles of UAF1-USP1 in regulating pSTAT1 relative to its role in the DNA damage response in HCMV infection.
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- Kristen Zarrella
- Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America
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- Imanis Life Sciences, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Abbvie, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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Hogan CH, Owens SM, Reynoso GV, Kirillov V, Meyer TJ, Zelazowska MA, Liu B, Li X, Chikhalya A, Dong Q, Khairallah C, Reich NC, Sheridan B, McBride KM, Hearing P, Hickman HD, Forrest JC, Krug LT. B cell-intrinsic STAT3-mediated support of latency and interferon suppression during murine gammaherpesvirus 68 infection revealed through an in vivo competition model. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.03.22.533727. [PMID: 36993230 PMCID: PMC10055336 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.22.533727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023]
Abstract
Cancers associated with the oncogenic gammaherpesviruses, Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus, are notable for their constitutive activation of the transcription factor STAT3. To better understand the role of STAT3 during gammaherpesvirus latency and immune control, we utilized murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68) infection. Genetic deletion of STAT3 in B cells of CD19cre/+Stat3f/f mice reduced peak latency approximately 7-fold. However, infected CD19cre/+Stat3f/f mice exhibited disordered germinal centers and heightened virus-specific CD8 T cell responses compared to WT littermates. To circumvent the systemic immune alterations observed in the B cell-STAT3 knockout mice and more directly evaluate intrinsic roles for STAT3, we generated mixed bone marrow chimeras consisting of WT and STAT3-knockout B cells. Using a competitive model of infection, we discovered a dramatic reduction in latency in STAT3-knockout B cells compared to their WT B cell counterparts in the same lymphoid organ. RNA sequencing of sorted germinal center B cells revealed that STAT3 promotes proliferation and B cell processes of the germinal center but does not directly regulate viral gene expression. Last, this analysis uncovered a STAT3-dependent role for dampening type I IFN responses in newly infected B cells. Together, our data provide mechanistic insight into the role of STAT3 as a latency determinant in B cells for oncogenic gammaherpesviruses.
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- Chad H. Hogan
- Graduate Program in Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- HIV & AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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- Viral Immunity and Pathogenesis Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- HIV & AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Graduate Program of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Viral Immunity and Pathogenesis Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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- HIV & AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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Zarrella K, Longmire P, Zeltzer S, Collins-McMillen D, Hancock M, Buehler J, Reitsma JM, Terhune SS, Nelson JA, Goodrum F. Human Cytomegalovirus UL138 Interaction with USP1 Activates STAT1 in infection. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.02.07.527452. [PMID: 36798153 PMCID: PMC9934528 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.07.527452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
Abstract
Innate immune responses are crucial for limiting virus infection. However, viruses often hijack our best defenses for viral objectives. Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a beta herpesvirus which establishes a life-long latent infection. Defining the virus-host interactions controlling latency and reactivation is vital to the control of viral disease risk posed by virus reactivation. We defined an interaction between UL138, a pro-latency HCMV gene, and the host deubiquintase complex, UAF1-USP1. UAF1 is a scaffold protein pivotal for the activity of ubiquitin specific peptidases (USP), including USP1. UAF1-USP1 sustains an innate immune response through the phosphorylation and activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription-1 (pSTAT1), as well as regulates the DNA damage response. After the onset of viral DNA synthesis, pSTAT1 levels are elevated and this depends upon UL138 and USP1. pSTAT1 localizes to viral centers of replication, binds to the viral genome, and influences UL138 expression. Inhibition of USP1 results in a failure to establish latency, marked by increased viral genome replication and production of viral progeny. Inhibition of Jak-STAT signaling also results in increased viral genome synthesis in hematopoietic cells, consistent with a role for USP1-mediated regulation of STAT1 signaling in the establishment of latency. These findings demonstrate the importance of the UL138-UAF1-USP1 virus-host interaction in regulating HCMV latency establishment through the control of innate immune signaling. It will be important going forward to distinguish roles of UAF1-USP1 in regulating pSTAT1 relative to its role in the DNA damage response in HCMV infection. Importance Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is one of nine herpesviruses that infect humans. Following a primary infection, HCMV establishes a life-long latent infection that is marked by sporadic, and likely frequent reactivation events. While these reactivation events are asymptomatic in the immune competent host, they pose important disease risks for the immune compromised, including solid organ or stem cell transplant recipients. Its complex interactions with host biology and deep coding capacity make it an excellent model for defining mechanisms important for viral latency and reactivation. Here we define an interaction with host proteins that commandeer typically antiviral innate immune signaling for the establishment of latency.
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- Kristen Zarrella
- Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226
- Abbvie, 1 N Waukegan Rd, North Chicago, IL 60064
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006
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- Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
- BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Age-associated B cells are long-lasting effectors that impede latent γHV68 reactivation. Sci Rep 2022; 12:21189. [PMID: 36477199 PMCID: PMC9729602 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25543-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Age-associated B cells (ABCs; CD19+CD11c+T-bet+) are a unique population that are increased in an array of viral infections, though their role during latent infection is largely unexplored. Here, we use murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (γHV68) to demonstrate that ABCs remain elevated long-term during latent infection and express IFNγ and TNF. Using a recombinant γHV68 that is cleared following acute infection, we show that ABCs persist in the absence of latent virus, though their expression of IFNγ and TNF is decreased. With a fluorescent reporter gene-expressing γHV68 we demonstrate that ABCs are infected with γHV68 at similar rates to other previously activated B cells. We find that mice without ABCs display defects in anti-viral IgG2a/c antibodies and are more susceptible to reactivation of γHV68 following virus challenges that typically do not break latency. Together, these results indicate that ABCs are a persistent effector subset during latent viral infection that impedes γHV68 reactivation.
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Mouat IC, Shanina I, Horwitz MS. Age-associated B cells are long-lasting effectors that impede latent γHV68 reactivation. Sci Rep 2022; 12:21189. [PMID: 36477199 DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.29.474434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Age-associated B cells (ABCs; CD19+CD11c+T-bet+) are a unique population that are increased in an array of viral infections, though their role during latent infection is largely unexplored. Here, we use murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (γHV68) to demonstrate that ABCs remain elevated long-term during latent infection and express IFNγ and TNF. Using a recombinant γHV68 that is cleared following acute infection, we show that ABCs persist in the absence of latent virus, though their expression of IFNγ and TNF is decreased. With a fluorescent reporter gene-expressing γHV68 we demonstrate that ABCs are infected with γHV68 at similar rates to other previously activated B cells. We find that mice without ABCs display defects in anti-viral IgG2a/c antibodies and are more susceptible to reactivation of γHV68 following virus challenges that typically do not break latency. Together, these results indicate that ABCs are a persistent effector subset during latent viral infection that impedes γHV68 reactivation.
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- Isobel C Mouat
- Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Life Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Room 3551, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
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Alomari N, Totonchy J. Host-Level Susceptibility and IRF1 Expression Influence the Ability of IFN-γ to Inhibit KSHV Infection in B Lymphocytes. Viruses 2022; 14:2295. [PMID: 36298850 PMCID: PMC9607942 DOI: 10.3390/v14102295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Revised: 10/08/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is associated with vascular endothelial cell tumor, Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and lymphoproliferative disorder, multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS). Dysregulation of proinflammatory cytokines is found in most KSHV associated diseases. However, little is known about the role of host microenvironment in the regulation of KSHV establishment in B cells. In the present study, we demonstrated that IFN-γ has a strong inhibitory effect on KSHV infection but only in a subset of tonsil-derived lymphocyte samples that are intrinsically more susceptible to infection, contain higher proportions of naïve B cells, and display increased levels of IRF1 and STAT1-pY701. The effect of IFN-γ in responsive samples was associated with increased frequencies of germinal center B cells (GCB) and decreased infection of plasma cells, suggesting that IFN-γ-mediated modulation of viral dynamics in GC can inhibit the establishment of KSHV infection.
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- Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chapman University, Irvine, CA 92618, USA
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Sylvester PA, Jondle CN, Schmalzriedt DL, Dittel BN, Tarakanova VL. T Cell-Specific STAT1 Expression Promotes Lytic Replication and Supports the Establishment of Gammaherpesvirus Latent Reservoir in Splenic B Cells. mBio 2022; 13:e0210722. [PMID: 35968944 PMCID: PMC9430880 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02107-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Gammaherpesviruses establish lifelong infections in most vertebrate species, including humans and rodents, and are associated with cancers, including B cell lymphomas. While type I and II interferon (IFN) systems of the host are critical for the control of acute and chronic gammaherpesvirus infection, the cell type-specific role(s) of IFN signaling during infection is poorly understood and is often masked by the profoundly altered viral pathogenesis in the hosts with global IFN deficiencies. STAT1 is a critical effector of all classical IFN responses along with its involvement in other cytokine signaling pathways. In this study, we defined the effect of T cell-specific STAT1 deficiency on the viral and host parameters of infection with murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68). MHV68 is a natural rodent pathogen that, similar to human gammaherpesviruses, manipulates and usurps B cell differentiation to establish a lifelong latent reservoir in B cells. Specifically, germinal center B cells host the majority of latent MHV68 reservoir in the lymphoid organs, particularly at the peak of viral latency. Unexpectedly, T cell-specific STAT1 expression, while limiting the overall expansion of the germinal center B cell population during chronic infection, rendered these B cells more effective at hosting the latent virus reservoir. Further, T cell-specific STAT1 expression in a wild type host limited circulating levels of IFNγ, with corresponding increases in lytic MHV68 replication and viral reactivation. Thus, our study unveils an unexpected proviral role of T cell-specific STAT1 expression during gammaherpesvirus infection of a natural intact host. IMPORTANCE Interferons (IFNs) represent a major antiviral host network vital to the control of multiple infections, including acute and chronic gammaherpesvirus infections. Ubiquitously expressed STAT1 plays a critical effector role in all classical IFN responses. This study utilized a mouse model of T cell-specific STAT1 deficiency to define cell type-intrinsic role of STAT1 during natural gammaherpesvirus infection. Unexpectedly, T cell-specific loss of STAT1 led to better control of acute and persistent gammaherpesvirus replication and decreased establishment of latent viral reservoir in B cells, revealing a surprisingly diverse proviral role of T cell-intrinsic STAT1.
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- P. A. Sylvester
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Versiti Blood Research Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Conserved Gammaherpesvirus Protein Kinase Counters the Antiviral Effects of Myeloid Cell-Specific STAT1 Expression To Promote the Establishment of Splenic B Cell Latency. J Virol 2021; 95:e0085921. [PMID: 34132573 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00859-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Gammaherpesviruses establish lifelong infections and are associated with B cell lymphomas. Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68) infects epithelial and myeloid cells during acute infection, with subsequent passage of the virus to B cells, where physiological B cell differentiation is usurped to ensure the establishment of a chronic latent reservoir. Interferons (IFNs) represent a major antiviral defense system that engages the transcriptional factor STAT1 to attenuate diverse acute and chronic viral infections, including those of gammaherpesviruses. Correspondingly, global deficiency of type I or type II IFN signaling profoundly increases the pathogenesis of acute and chronic gammaherpesvirus infection, compromises host survival, and impedes mechanistic understanding of cell type-specific role of IFN signaling. Here, we demonstrate that myeloid-specific STAT1 expression attenuates acute and persistent MHV68 replication in the lungs and suppresses viral reactivation from peritoneal cells, without any effect on the establishment of viral latent reservoir in splenic B cells. All gammaherpesviruses encode a conserved protein kinase that antagonizes type I IFN signaling in vitro. Here, we show that myeloid-specific STAT1 deficiency rescues the attenuated splenic latent reservoir of the kinase-null MHV68 mutant. However, despite having gained access to splenic B cells, the protein kinase-null MHV68 mutant fails to drive B cell differentiation. Thus, while myeloid-intrinsic STAT1 expression must be counteracted by the gammaherpesvirus protein kinase to facilitate viral passage to splenic B cells, expression of the viral protein kinase continues to be required to promote optimal B cell differentiation and viral reactivation, highlighting the multifunctional nature of this conserved viral protein during chronic infection. IMPORTANCE IFN signaling is a major antiviral system of the host that suppresses replication of diverse viruses, including acute and chronic gammaherpesvirus infection. STAT1 is a critical member and the primary antiviral effector of IFN signaling pathways. Given the significantly compromised antiviral status of global type I or type II IFN deficiency, unabated gammaherpesvirus replication and pathogenesis hinders understanding of cell type-specific antiviral effects. In this study, a mouse model of myeloid-specific STAT1 deficiency unveiled site-specific antiviral effects of STAT1 in the lungs and peritoneal cavity, but not the spleen, of chronically infected hosts. Interestingly, expression of a conserved gammaherpesvirus protein kinase was required to counteract the antiviral effects of myeloid-specific STAT1 expression to facilitate latent infection of splenic B cells, revealing a cell type-specific virus-host antagonism during the establishment of chronic gammaherpesvirus infection.
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Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor Suppresses the Endogenous Cholesterol Synthesis Pathway To Oppose Gammaherpesvirus Replication in Primary Macrophages. J Virol 2021; 95:e0064921. [PMID: 34105999 PMCID: PMC8354329 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00649-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Gammaherpesviruses are ubiquitous pathogens that establish lifelong infections in >95% of adults worldwide and are associated with several cancers. We have shown that endogenous cholesterol synthesis supports gammaherpesvirus replication. However, the role of exogenous cholesterol exchange and signaling during infection remains poorly understood. Extracellular cholesterol is carried in the serum by several lipoproteins, including low-density lipoproteins (LDL). The LDL receptor (LDL-R) mediates the endocytosis of these cholesterol-rich LDL particles into the cell, thereby supplying the cell with cholesterol. We found that LDL-R expression attenuates gammaherpesvirus replication during the early stages of the replication cycle, as evident by increased viral gene expression in LDL-R-/- primary macrophages. This was not observed in primary fibroblasts, indicating that the antiviral effects of LDL-R are cell type specific. Increased viral gene expression in LDL-R-/- primary macrophages was due to increased activity of the endogenous cholesterol synthesis pathway. Intriguingly, despite type I interferon-driven increase in LDL-R mRNA levels in infected macrophages, protein levels of LDL-R continually decreased over the single cycle of viral replication. Thus, our study has uncovered an intriguing tug of war between the LDL-R-driven antiviral effect on cholesterol metabolism and the viral targeting of the LDL-R protein. IMPORTANCE LDL-R is a cell surface receptor that mediates the endocytosis of cholesterol-rich low-density lipoproteins, allowing cells to acquire cholesterol exogenously. Several RNA viruses usurp LDL-R function to facilitate replication; however, the role of LDL-R in DNA virus infection remains unknown. Gammaherpesviruses are double-stranded DNA viruses that are associated with several cancers. Here, we show that LDL-R attenuates gammaherpesvirus replication in primary macrophages by decreasing endogenous cholesterol synthesis activity, a pathway known to support gammaherpesvirus replication. In response, LDL-R protein levels are decreased in infected cells to mitigate the antiviral effects, revealing an intriguing tug of war between the virus and the host.
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Interferon Gamma Inhibits Equine Herpesvirus 1 Replication in a Cell Line-Dependent Manner. Pathogens 2021; 10:pathogens10040484. [PMID: 33923733 PMCID: PMC8073143 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10040484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2021] [Revised: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The sole equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) immediate-early protein (IEP) is essential for viral replication by transactivating viral immediate-early (IE), early (E), and late (L) genes. Here, we report that treatment of mouse MH-S, equine NBL6, and human MRC-5 cells with 20 ng/mL of IFN-γ reduced EHV-1 yield by 1122-, 631-, and 10,000-fold, respectively. However, IFN-γ reduced virus yield by only 2–4-fold in mouse MLE12, mouse L-M, and human MeWo cells compared to those of untreated cells. In luciferase assays with the promoter of the EHV-1 early regulatory EICP0 gene, IFN-γ abrogated trans-activation activity of the IEP by 96% in MH-S cells, but only by 21% in L-M cells. Similar results were obtained in assays with the early regulatory UL5 and IR4 promoter reporter plasmids. IFN-γ treatment reduced IEP protein expression by greater than 99% in MH-S cells, but only by 43% in L-M cells. The expression of IEP and UL5P suppressed by IFN-γ was restored by JAK inhibitor treatment, indicating that the inhibition of EHV-1 replication is mediated by JAK/STAT1 signaling. These results suggest that IFN-γ blocks EHV-1 replication by inhibiting the production of the IEP in a cell line-dependent manner. Affymetrix microarray analyses of IFN-γ-treated MH-S and L-M cells revealed that five antiviral ISGs (MX1, SAMHD1, IFIT2, NAMPT, TREX1, and DDX60) were upregulated 3.2–18.1-fold only in MH-S cells.
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Wang G, Zarek C, Chang T, Tao L, Lowe A, Reese TA. Th2 Cytokine Modulates Herpesvirus Reactivation in a Cell Type Specific Manner. J Virol 2021; 95:JVI.01946-20. [PMID: 33536178 PMCID: PMC8103696 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01946-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Gammaherpesviruses, such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), Kaposi's sarcoma associated virus (KSHV), and murine γ-herpesvirus 68 (MHV68), establish latent infection in B cells, macrophages, and non-lymphoid cells, and can induce both lymphoid and non-lymphoid cancers. Research on these viruses has relied heavily on immortalized B cell and endothelial cell lines. Therefore, we know very little about the cell type specific regulation of virus infection. We have previously shown that treatment of MHV68-infected macrophages with the cytokine interleukin-4 (IL-4) or challenge of MHV68-infected mice with an IL-4-inducing parasite leads to virus reactivation. However, we do not know if all latent reservoirs of the virus, including B cells, reactivate the virus in response to IL-4. Here we used an in vivo approach to address the question of whether all latently infected cell types reactivate MHV68 in response to a particular stimulus. We found that IL-4 receptor expression on macrophages was required for IL-4 to induce virus reactivation, but that it was dispensable on B cells. We further demonstrated that the transcription factor, STAT6, which is downstream of the IL-4 receptor and binds virus gene 50 N4/N5 promoter in macrophages, did not bind to the virus gene 50 N4/N5 promoter in B cells. These data suggest that stimuli that promote herpesvirus reactivation may only affect latent virus in particular cell types, but not in others.Importance Herpesviruses establish life-long quiescent infections in specific cells in the body, and only reactivate to produce infectious virus when precise signals induce them to do so. The signals that induce herpesvirus reactivation are often studied only in one particular cell type infected with the virus. However, herpesviruses establish latency in multiple cell types in their hosts. Using murine gammaherpesvirus-68 (MHV68) and conditional knockout mice, we examined the cell type specificity of a particular reactivation signal, interleukin-4 (IL-4). We found that IL-4 only induced herpesvirus reactivation from macrophages, but not from B cells. This work indicates that regulation of virus latency and reactivation is cell type specific. This has important implications for therapies aimed at either promoting or inhibiting reactivation for the control or elimination of chronic viral infections.
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- Guoxun Wang
- Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
- Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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Interferon Regulatory Factor 7 Attenuates Chronic Gammaherpesvirus Infection. J Virol 2020; 94:JVI.01554-20. [PMID: 32967960 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01554-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Gammaherpesviruses are ubiquitous pathogens that establish lifelong infections and are associated with a variety of malignancies, including lymphomas. Interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF-7) is an innate immune transcription factor that restricts acute replication of diverse viruses, including murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68). Importantly, very little is known about the role of IRF-7 during chronic virus infections. In this study, we demonstrate that IRF-7 attenuates chronic infection by restricting establishment of gammaherpesvirus latency in the peritoneal cavity and, to a lesser extent, viral reactivation in the spleen. Despite the classical role of IRF-7 as a stimulator of type I interferon (IFN) transcription, there were no global effects on the expression of IFN-induced genes (ISGs) in the absence of IRF-7, with only a few ISGs showing attenuated expression in IRF-7-deficient peritoneal cells. Further, IRF-7 expression was dispensable for the induction of a virus-specific CD8 T cell response. In contrast, IRF-7 expression restricted latent gammaherpesvirus infection in the peritoneal cavity under conditions where the viral latent reservoir is predominantly hosted by peritoneal B cells. This report is the first demonstration of the antiviral role of IRF-7 during the chronic stage of gammaherpesvirus infection.IMPORTANCE The innate immune system of the host is critical for the restriction of acute viral infections. In contrast, the role of the innate immune network during chronic herpesvirus infection remains poorly defined. Interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF-7) is a transcription factor with many target genes, including type I interferons (IFNs). In this study, we show that the antiviral role of IRF-7 continues into the chronic phase of gammaherpesvirus infection, wherein IRF-7 restricts the establishment of viral latency and viral reactivation. This study is, to our knowledge, the first to define the role of IRF-7 in chronic virus infection.
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Jondle CN, Tarakanova VL. Innate immunity and alpha/gammaherpesviruses: first impressions last a lifetime. Curr Opin Virol 2020; 44:81-89. [PMID: 32777757 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2020.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Revised: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Innate immune system is considered the first line of defense during viral invasion, with the wealth of the literature demonstrating innate immune control of diverse viruses during acute infection. What is far less clear is the role of innate immune system during chronic virus infections. This short review focuses on alphaherpesviruses and gammaherpesviruses, two highly prevalent herpesvirus subfamilies that, following a brief, once in a lifetime period of acute lytic infection, establish life-long latent infection that is characterized by sporadic reactivation in an immunocompetent host. In spite of many similarities, these two viral families are characterized by distinct cellular tropism and pathogenesis. Here we focus on the published in vivo studies to review known interactions of these two viral subfamilies with the innate immunity of the intact host, both during acute and, particularly, chronic virus infection.
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- Christopher N Jondle
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 W Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 W Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, United States; Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, United States.
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Immune-Microbiota Interplay and Colonization Resistance in Infection. Mol Cell 2020; 78:597-613. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Interferon Gamma Inhibits Varicella-Zoster Virus Replication in a Cell Line-Dependent Manner. J Virol 2019; 93:JVI.00257-19. [PMID: 30918075 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00257-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The major immediate early 62 (IE62) protein of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is delivered to newly infected cell nuclei, where it initiates VZV replication by transactivating viral immediate early (IE), early (E), and late (L) genes. Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) is a potent cytokine produced following primary VZV infection. Furthermore, VZV reactivation correlates with a decline in IFN-γ-producing immune cells. Our results showed that treatment with 20 ng/ml of IFN-γ completely reduced intracellular VZV yield in A549 lung epithelial cells, MRC-5 lung fibroblasts, and ARPE-19 retinal epithelial cells at 4 days post-VZV infection. However, IFN-γ reduced virus yield only 2-fold in MeWo melanoma cells compared to that of untreated cells. IFN-β significantly inhibited VZV replication in both ARPE-19 and MeWo cells. In luciferase assays with VZV open reading frame 61 (ORF61) promoter reporter plasmid, IFN-γ abrogated the transactivation activity of IE62 by 95%, 97%, and 89% in A549, ARPE-19, and MRC-5 cells, respectively. However, IFN-γ abrogated IE62's transactivation activity by 16% in MeWo cells, indicating that IFN-γ inhibits VZV replication as well as IE62-mediated transactivation in a cell line-dependent manner. The expression of VZV IE62 and ORF63 suppressed by IFN-γ was restored by JAK1 inhibitor treatment, indicating that the inhibition of VZV replication is mediated by JAK/STAT1 signaling. In the presence of IFN-γ, knockdown of interferon response factor 1 (IRF1) increased VZV replication. Ectopic expression of IRF1 reduced VZV yields 4,000-fold in MRC-5 and ARPE-19 cells but 3-fold in MeWo cells. These results suggest that IFN-γ blocks VZV replication by inhibiting IE62 function in a cell line-dependent manner.IMPORTANCE Our results showed that IFN-γ significantly inhibited VZV replication in a cell line-dependent manner. IFN-γ inhibited VZV gene expression after the immediate early stage of infection and abrogated IE62-mediated transactivation. These results suggest that IFN-γ blocks VZV replication by inhibiting IE62 function in a cell line-dependent manner. Understanding the mechanisms by which IFN-γ plays a role in VZV gene programming may be important in determining the tissue restriction of VZV.
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Shen Y, Wang S, Sun F, Zheng G, Wu T, Du Y, Zhang S, Qian J, Sun R. Inhibition of murine herpesvirus-68 replication by IFN-gamma in macrophages is counteracted by the induction of SOCS1 expression. PLoS Pathog 2018; 14:e1007202. [PMID: 30075008 PMCID: PMC6093694 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Revised: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 07/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Gamma interferon (IFN-γ) is known to negatively regulate murine gammaherpesvirus-68 (MHV-68 or γHV-68) replication. This process involves the suppression of the viral gene replication and transcription activator (RTA) promoter, as well as activation of signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT1). Notably, this effect is gradually attenuated during MHV-68 infection of bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMMs), which raised the possibility that the virus may utilize a mechanism that counteracts the antiviral effect of IFN-γ. By identifying the cellular factors that negatively regulate JAK-STAT1 signaling, we revealed that the infection of BMMs by MHV-68 induces the expression of suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) and that depletion of SOCS1 restores the inhibitory effect of IFN-γ on virus replication. Moreover, we demonstrated that the expression of SOCS1 was induced as a result of the Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) mediated activation of the NF-κB signaling cascade. In conclusion, we report that TLR3-TRAF-NF-κB signaling pathway play a role in the induction of SOCS1 that counteracts the antiviral effect of IFN-γ during MHV-68 infection. This process is cell type-specific: it is functional in macrophages, but not in epithelial cells or fibroblasts. Our study reveals a mechanism that balances the immune responses and the escape of a gamma-herpesvirus in some antigen-presenting cells.
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- Yong Shen
- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Province, China), The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Research Center of Infection and Immunity, ZJU-UCLA Joint Center for Medical Education and Research, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Province, China), The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Research Center of Infection and Immunity, ZJU-UCLA Joint Center for Medical Education and Research, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Province, China), The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Research Center of Infection and Immunity, ZJU-UCLA Joint Center for Medical Education and Research, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Province, China), The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Research Center of Infection and Immunity, ZJU-UCLA Joint Center for Medical Education and Research, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Province, China), The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Research Center of Infection and Immunity, ZJU-UCLA Joint Center for Medical Education and Research, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Province, China), The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Research Center of Infection and Immunity, ZJU-UCLA Joint Center for Medical Education and Research, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Medical Sciences, Zhejiang Province, China), The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Research Center of Infection and Immunity, ZJU-UCLA Joint Center for Medical Education and Research, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P. R. China
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Type I Interferon Signaling to Dendritic Cells Limits Murid Herpesvirus 4 Spread from the Olfactory Epithelium. J Virol 2017; 91:JVI.00951-17. [PMID: 28904198 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00951-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Murid herpesvirus 4 (MuHV-4) is a B cell-tropic gammaherpesvirus that can be studied in vivo Despite viral evasion, type I interferons (IFN-I) limit its spread. After MuHV-4 inoculation into footpads, IFN-I protect lymph node subcapsular sinus macrophages (SSM) against productive infection; after peritoneal inoculation, they protect splenic marginal zone macrophages, and they limit MuHV-4 replication in the lungs. While invasive infections can be used to test specific aspects of host colonization, it is also important to understand natural infection. MuHV-4 taken up spontaneously by alert mice enters them via olfactory neurons. We determined how IFN-I act in this context. Blocking IFN-I signaling did not increase neuronal infection but allowed the virus to spread to the adjacent respiratory epithelium. In lymph nodes, a complete IFN-I signaling block increased MuHV-4 lytic infection in SSM and increased the number of dendritic cells (DC) expressing viral green fluorescent protein (GFP) independently of lytic infection. A CD11c+ cell-directed signaling block increased infection of DC only. However, this was sufficient to increase downstream infection, consistent with DC providing the main viral route to B cells. The capacity of IFN-I to limit DC infection indicated that viral IFN-I evasion was only partly effective. Therefore, DC are a possible target for IFN-I-based interventions to reduce host colonization.IMPORTANCE Human gammaherpesviruses infect B cells and cause B cell cancers. Interventions to block virus binding to B cells have not stopped their infection. Therefore, we must identify other control points that are relevant to natural infection. Human infections are difficult to analyze. However, gammaherpesviruses colonize all mammals. A related gammaherpesvirus of mice reaches B cells not directly but via infected dendritic cells. We show that type I interferons, an important general antiviral defense, limit gammaherpesvirus B cell infection by acting on dendritic cells. Therefore, dendritic cell infection is a potential point of interferon-based therapeutic intervention.
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Darrah EJ, Stoltz KP, Ledwith M, Tarakanova VL. ATM supports gammaherpesvirus replication by attenuating type I interferon pathway. Virology 2017; 510:137-146. [PMID: 28732227 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2017.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Revised: 06/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Ataxia-Telangiectasia mutated (ATM) kinase participates in multiple networks, including DNA damage response, oxidative stress, and mitophagy. ATM also supports replication of diverse DNA and RNA viruses. Gammaherpesviruses are prevalent cancer-associated viruses that benefit from ATM expression during replication. This proviral role of ATM had been ascribed to its signaling within the DNA damage response network; other functions of ATM have not been considered. In this study increased type I interferon (IFN) responses were observed in ATM deficient gammaherpesvirus-infected macrophages. Using a mouse model that combines ATM and type I IFN receptor deficiencies we show that increased type I IFN response in the absence of ATM fully accounts for the proviral role of ATM during gammaherpesvirus replication. Further, increased type I IFN response rendered ATM deficient macrophages more susceptible to antiviral effects of type II IFN. This study identifies attenuation of type I IFN responses as the primary mechanism underlying proviral function of ATM during gammaherpesvirus infection.
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- Eric J Darrah
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States; Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States.
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Tan CSE, Lawler C, Stevenson PG. CD8+ T cell evasion mandates CD4+ T cell control of chronic gamma-herpesvirus infection. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006311. [PMID: 28394921 PMCID: PMC5398720 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2016] [Revised: 04/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Gamma-herpesvirus infections are regulated by both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. However clinical disease occurs mainly in CD4+ T cell-deficient hosts. In CD4+ T cell-deficient mice, CD8+ T cells control acute but not chronic lung infection by Murid Herpesvirus-4 (MuHV-4). We show that acute and chronic lung infections differ in distribution: most acute infection was epithelial, whereas most chronic infection was in myeloid cells. CD8+ T cells controlled epithelial infection, but CD4+ T cells and IFNγ were required to control myeloid cell infection. Disrupting the MuHV-4 K3, which degrades MHC class I heavy chains, increased viral epitope presentation by infected lung alveolar macrophages and allowed CD8+ T cells to prevent disease. Thus, viral CD8+ T cell evasion led to niche-specific immune control, and an essential role for CD4+ T cells in limiting chronic infection. Gamma-herpesviruses chronically infect most people. While infection is usually asymptomatic, disease occurs if the immune system is weakened. Understanding how immune control normally works should provide a basis for preventing disease. In mice, CD8+ T cells can control acute gamma-herpesvirus infection but not chronic infection. We show that acute and chronic infections involve different cell types. CD8+ T cells controlled epithelial cell infection, which predominated acutely, but they could not control chronic macrophage infection unless viral immune evasion was disabled. Instead CD4+ T cells were required. Thus, viral evasion made host defence cell type-specific: CD8+ T cells controlled epithelial cell infection; CD4+ T cells controlled macrophage infection; and comprehensive control required both T cell subsets.
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- Cindy S. E. Tan
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland and Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland and Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland and Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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Tao L, Reese TA. Making Mouse Models That Reflect Human Immune Responses. Trends Immunol 2017; 38:181-193. [PMID: 28161189 DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2016.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2016] [Revised: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/30/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Humans are infected with a variety of acute and chronic pathogens over the course of their lives, and pathogen-driven selection has shaped the immune system of humans. The same is likely true for mice. However, laboratory mice we use for most biomedical studies are bred in ultra-hygienic environments, and are kept free of specific pathogens. We review recent studies that indicate that pathogen infections are important for the basal level of activation and the function of the immune system. Consideration of these environmental exposures of both humans and mice can potentially improve mouse models of human disease.
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- Lili Tao
- Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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Park S, Buck MD, Desai C, Zhang X, Loginicheva E, Martinez J, Freeman ML, Saitoh T, Akira S, Guan JL, He YW, Blackman MA, Handley SA, Levine B, Green DR, Reese TA, Artyomov MN, Virgin HW. Autophagy Genes Enhance Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68 Reactivation from Latency by Preventing Virus-Induced Systemic Inflammation. Cell Host Microbe 2016; 19:91-101. [PMID: 26764599 PMCID: PMC4714357 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2015] [Revised: 11/06/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Host genes that regulate systemic inflammation upon chronic viral infection are incompletely understood. Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68) infection is characterized by latency in macrophages, and reactivation is inhibited by interferon-γ (IFN-γ). Using a lysozyme-M-cre (LysMcre) expression system, we show that deletion of autophagy-related (Atg) genes Fip200, beclin 1, Atg14, Atg16l1, Atg7, Atg3, and Atg5, in the myeloid compartment, inhibited MHV68 reactivation in macrophages. Atg5 deficiency did not alter reactivation from B cells, and effects on reactivation from macrophages were not explained by alterations in productive viral replication or the establishment of latency. Rather, chronic MHV68 infection triggered increased systemic inflammation, increased T cell production of IFN-γ, and an IFN-γ-induced transcriptional signature in macrophages from Atg gene-deficient mice. The Atg5-related reactivation defect was partially reversed by neutralization of IFN-γ. Thus Atg genes in myeloid cells dampen virus-induced systemic inflammation, creating an environment that fosters efficient MHV68 reactivation from latency. Autophagy (Atg) genes in myeloid cells inhibit virus-triggered systemic inflammation Atg gene-regulated systemic inflammation inhibits herpesvirus reactivation Interferon-γ controls herpesvirus reactivation in the setting of Atg gene mutations
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- Sunmin Park
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Immunity, Inflammation, and Disease Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27703, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Division of Molecular Genetics, Institute for Enzyme Research, Tokushima University, 3-8-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Center for Autophagy Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Immunology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Multiple Transcripts Encode Full-Length Human Cytomegalovirus IE1 and IE2 Proteins during Lytic Infection. J Virol 2016; 90:8855-65. [PMID: 27466417 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00741-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED Expression of the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) IE1 and IE2 proteins is critical for the establishment of lytic infection and reactivation from viral latency. Defining the mechanisms controlling IE1 and IE2 expression is therefore important for understanding how HCMV regulates its replicative cycle. Here we identify several novel transcripts encoding full-length IE1 and IE2 proteins during HCMV lytic replication. Two of the alternative major immediate early (MIE) transcripts initiate in the first intron, intron A, of the previously defined MIE transcript, while others extend the 5' untranslated region. Each of the MIE transcripts associates with polyribosomes in infected cells and therefore contributes to IE1 and IE2 protein levels. Surprisingly, deletion of the core promoter region of the major immediate early promoter (MIEP) from a plasmid containing the MIE genomic locus did not completely abrogate IE1 and IE2 expression. Instead, deletion of the MIEP core promoter resulted in increased expression of alternative MIE transcripts, suggesting that the MIEP suppresses the activity of the alternative MIE promoters. While the canonical MIE mRNA was the most abundant transcript at immediate early times, the novel MIE transcripts accumulated to levels equivalent to that of the known MIE transcript later in infection. Using two HCMV recombinants, we found that sequences in intron A of the previously defined MIE transcript are required for efficient IE1 and IE2 expression and viral replication. Together, our results identify new regulatory sequences controlling IE1 and IE2 expression and suggest that multiple transcription units act in concert to regulate IE1 and IE2 expression during lytic infection. IMPORTANCE The HCMV IE1 and IE2 proteins are critical regulators of HCMV replication, both during primary infection and reactivation from viral latency. This study expands our understanding of the sequences controlling IE1 and IE2 expression by defining novel transcriptional units controlling the expression of full-length IE1 and IE2 proteins. Our results suggest that alternative promoters may allow for IE1 and IE2 expression when MIEP activity is limiting, as occurs in latently infected cells.
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Chronic viruses, such as herpesviruses, shape host physiology. These viruses modulate the inflammatory state of the immune system and have evolved to harness inflammation as a mechanism to regulate viral latency and reactivation. In this review, I examine some of the recent work demonstrating the important role of inflammation in the regulation of the herpesvirus life cycle and discuss recent work that implicates coinfection in the regulation of herpesvirus latency.
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Tan CSE, Lawler C, May JS, Belz GT, Stevenson PG. Type I Interferons Direct Gammaherpesvirus Host Colonization. PLoS Pathog 2016; 12:e1005654. [PMID: 27223694 PMCID: PMC4880296 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Gamma-herpesviruses colonise lymphocytes. Murid Herpesvirus-4 (MuHV-4) infects B cells via epithelial to myeloid to lymphoid transfer. This indirect route entails exposure to host defences, and type I interferons (IFN-I) limit infection while viral evasion promotes it. To understand how IFN-I and its evasion both control infection outcomes, we used Mx1-cre mice to tag floxed viral genomes in IFN-I responding cells. Epithelial-derived MuHV-4 showed low IFN-I exposure, and neither disrupting viral evasion nor blocking IFN-I signalling markedly affected acute viral replication in the lungs. Maximising IFN-I induction with poly(I:C) increased virus tagging in lung macrophages, but the tagged virus spread poorly. Lymphoid-derived MuHV-4 showed contrastingly high IFN-I exposure. This occurred mainly in B cells. IFN-I induction increased tagging without reducing viral loads; disrupting viral evasion caused marked attenuation; and blocking IFN-I signalling opened up new lytic spread between macrophages. Thus, the impact of IFN-I on viral replication was strongly cell type-dependent: epithelial infection induced little response; IFN-I largely suppressed macrophage infection; and viral evasion allowed passage through B cells despite IFN-I responses. As a result, IFN-I and its evasion promoted a switch in infection from acutely lytic in myeloid cells to chronically latent in B cells. Murine cytomegalovirus also showed a capacity to pass through IFN-I-responding cells, arguing that this is a core feature of herpesvirus host colonization.
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- Cindy S. E. Tan
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland and Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland and Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Immunology, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland and Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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Autophagy is a well-known cell-intrinsic antiviral defense mechanism. Two new studies published in this issue of Cell Host & Microbe (Lu et al., 2016; Park et al., 2016) demonstrate that deletion of autophagy in myeloid cells leads paradoxically to better control of viral infection in vivo through enhanced inflammation, leading to antiviral resistance.
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- William Khoury-Hanold
- Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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EBV-encoded miR-BART20-5p and miR-BART8 inhibit the IFN-γ-STAT1 pathway associated with disease progression in nasal NK-cell lymphoma. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2014; 184:1185-97. [PMID: 24655378 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2013.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2013] [Revised: 11/18/2013] [Accepted: 12/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Nasal NK-cell lymphoma (NNL) is an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated lymphoma of cytotoxic natural killer (NK) cell origin. Because normal NK cells secrete the principal cytotoxic cytokine IFN-γ to suppress both tumor growth and viral replication, we investigated how EBV may have used miRNAs of viral origin to inhibit the IFN-γ-STAT1 pathway to facilitate viral replication and tumor growth. In EBV(-) Jurkat cells, transfection of miR-BART20-5p and miR-BART8 inhibited translation of luciferase-IFN-γ-3'-UTR and luciferase-STAT1-3'-UTR, respectively. In EBV(+) IFN-γ(weak)/STAT1(strong) YT leukemic cells and IFN-γ(strong)/STAT1(weak) NK92 cells, relative endogenous levels between miR-BART20-5p and IFN-γ mRNAs or between miR-BART8 and STAT1 mRNAs determined expression of the targets. Chromatin immunoprecipitation studies showed that STAT1 regulates the transcription of the tumor suppressor TP53 (encoding p53) and miR-let7a. Consistent with these findings, overexpression of miR-BART8 in YT cells or of miR-BART20-5p in NK92 cells inhibited p53 and increased resistance to doxorubicin. In 36 NNLs, the levels of miR-BART20-5p or miR-BART8 correlated inversely with the expression of STAT1. Additionally, in 46 NNLs, expression of both miR-BART20-5p and miR-BART8 identified a group of NNLs with decreased p53 mRNAs and evidence of disease progression. We conclude that miR-BART20-5p and miR-BART8 cause progression of nasal NK-cell lymphomas through inhibition of the IFN-γ-STAT1 pathway.
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Co-infections may have unpredictable consequences for the health of a host beyond the sum of the individual infections. Two recent papers in Science provide mechanistic insights into how acute helminth infections alter the outcome of Herpesvirus and Norovirus infections by triggering changes in the local cytokine environment.
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Reese TA, Wakeman BS, Choi HS, Hufford MM, Huang SC, Zhang X, Buck MD, Jezewski A, Kambal A, Liu CY, Goel G, Murray PJ, Xavier RJ, Kaplan MH, Renne R, Speck SH, Artyomov MN, Pearce EJ, Virgin HW. Helminth infection reactivates latent γ-herpesvirus via cytokine competition at a viral promoter. Science 2014; 345:573-7. [PMID: 24968940 DOI: 10.1126/science.1254517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Mammals are coinfected by multiple pathogens that interact through unknown mechanisms. We found that helminth infection, characterized by the induction of the cytokine interleukin-4 (IL-4) and the activation of the transcription factor Stat6, reactivated murine γ-herpesvirus infection in vivo. IL-4 promoted viral replication and blocked the antiviral effects of interferon-γ (IFNγ) by inducing Stat6 binding to the promoter for an important viral transcriptional transactivator. IL-4 also reactivated human Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus from latency in cultured cells. Exogenous IL-4 plus blockade of IFNγ reactivated latent murine γ-herpesvirus infection in vivo, suggesting a "two-signal" model for viral reactivation. Thus, chronic herpesvirus infection, a component of the mammalian virome, is regulated by the counterpoised actions of multiple cytokines on viral promoters that have evolved to sense host immune status.
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- T A Reese
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Emory University Vaccine Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Departments of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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- Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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- Emory University Vaccine Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Identification of alternative transcripts encoding the essential murine gammaherpesvirus lytic transactivator RTA. J Virol 2014; 88:5474-90. [PMID: 24574412 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.03110-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED The essential immediate early transcriptional activator RTA, encoded by gene 50, is conserved among all characterized gammaherpesviruses. Analyses of a recombinant murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68) lacking both of the known gene 50 promoters (G50DblKo) revealed that this mutant retained the ability to replicate in the simian kidney epithelial cell line Vero but not in permissive murine fibroblasts following low-multiplicity infection. However, G50DblKo replication in permissive fibroblasts was partially rescued by high-multiplicity infection. In addition, replication of the G50DblKo virus was rescued by growth on mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) isolated from IFN-α/βR-/- mice, while growth on Vero cells was suppressed by the addition of alpha interferon (IFN-α). 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) analyses of RNAs prepared from G50DblKo and wild-type MHV68-infected murine macrophages identified three novel gene 50 transcripts initiating from 2 transcription initiation sites located upstream of the currently defined proximal and distal gene 50 promoters. In transient promoter assays, neither of the newly identified gene 50 promoters exhibited sensitivity to IFN-α treatment. Furthermore, in a single-step growth analysis RTA levels were higher at early times postinfection with the G50DblKo mutant than with wild-type virus but ultimately fell below the levels of RTA expressed by wild-type virus at later times in infection. Infection of mice with the MHV68 G50DblKo virus demonstrated that this mutant virus was able to establish latency in the spleen and peritoneal exudate cells (PECs) of C57BL/6 mice with about 1/10 the efficiency of wild-type virus or marker rescue virus. However, despite the ability to establish latency, the G50DblKo virus mutant was severely impaired in its ability to reactivate from either latently infected splenocytes or PECs. Consistent with the ability to rescue replication of the G50DblKo mutant by growth on type I interferon receptor null MEFs, infection of IFN-α/βR-/- mice with the G50DblKo mutant virus demonstrated partial rescue of (i) acute virus replication in the lungs, (ii) establishment of latency, and (iii) reactivation from latency. The identification of additional gene 50/RTA transcripts highlights the complex mechanisms involved in controlling expression of RTA, likely reflecting time-dependent and/or cell-specific roles of different gene 50 promoters in controlling virus replication. Furthermore, the newly identified gene 50 transcripts may also act as negative regulators that modulate RTA expression. IMPORTANCE The viral transcription factor RTA, encoded by open reading frame 50 (Orf50), is well conserved among all known gammaherpesviruses and is essential for both virus replication and reactivation from latently infected cells. Previous studies have shown that regulation of gene 50 transcription is complex. The studies reported here describe the presence of additional alternatively initiated, spliced transcripts that encode RTA. Understanding how expression of this essential viral gene product is regulated may identify new strategies for interfering with infection in the setting of gammaherpesvirus-induced diseases.
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Wood BM, Mboko WP, Mounce BC, Tarakanova VL. Mouse gammaherpesvirus-68 infection acts as a rheostat to set the level of type I interferon signaling in primary macrophages. Virology 2013; 443:123-33. [PMID: 23706314 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.04.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2013] [Revised: 03/12/2013] [Accepted: 04/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Type I interferon (IFN) is a critical antiviral response of the host. We found that Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 (IRF-3) was responsible for induction of type I IFN following mouse gammaherpesvirus-68 (MHV68) infection of primary macrophages. Intriguingly, type I IFN signaling was maintained throughout the entire MHV68 replication cycle, in spite of several known viral IFN antagonists. However, MHV68-infected primary macrophages displayed attenuated responses to exogenous type I IFN, suggesting that MHV68 controls the level of type I IFN signaling that is allowed to occur during replication. Type I IFN receptor and IRF-3 were necessary to attenuate transcription of MHV68 RTA, an immediate early gene critical for replication. Furthermore, higher constitutive activity of RTA promoters was observed in the absence of type I IFN signaling. Our study suggests that MHV68 has preserved the ability to sense type I IFN status of the host in order to limit lytic replication.
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- Brittani M Wood
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
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Advances in vaccine technology over the past two centuries have facilitated far-reaching impact in the control of many infections, and today's emerging vaccines could likewise open new opportunities in the control of several diseases. Here we consider the potential, population-level effects of a particular class of emerging vaccines that use specific viral vectors to establish long-term, intermittent antigen presentation within a vaccinated host: in essence, "self-boosting" vaccines. In particular, we use mathematical models to explore the potential role of such vaccines in situations where current immunization raises only relatively short-lived protection. Vaccination programs in such cases are generally limited in their ability to raise lasting herd immunity. Moreover, in certain cases mass vaccination can have the counterproductive effect of allowing an increase in severe disease, through reducing opportunities for immunity to be boosted through natural exposure to infection. Such dynamics have been proposed, for example, in relation to pertussis and varicella-zoster virus. In this context we show how self-boosting vaccines could open qualitatively new opportunities, for example by broadening the effective duration of herd immunity that can be achieved with currently used immunogens. At intermediate rates of self-boosting, these vaccines also alleviate the potential counterproductive effects of mass vaccination, through compensating for losses in natural boosting. Importantly, however, we also show how sufficiently high boosting rates may introduce a new regime of unintended consequences, wherein the unvaccinated bear an increased disease burden. Finally, we discuss important caveats and data needs arising from this work.
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Critical role for interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF-3) and IRF-7 in type I interferon-mediated control of murine norovirus replication. J Virol 2012; 86:13515-23. [PMID: 23035219 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01824-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Human noroviruses (HuNoV) are the major cause of epidemic, nonbacterial gastroenteritis in the world. The short course of HuNoV-induced symptoms has implicated innate immunity in control of norovirus (NoV) infection. Studies using murine norovirus (MNV) confirm the importance of innate immune responses during NoV infection. Type I alpha and beta interferons (IFN-α/β) limit HuNoV replicon function, restrict MNV replication in cultured cells, and control MNV replication in vivo. Therefore, the cell types and transcription factors involved in antiviral immune responses and IFN-α/β-mediated control of NoV infection are important to define. We used mice with floxed alleles of the IFNAR1 chain of the IFN-α/β receptor to identify cells expressing lysozyme M or CD11c as cells that respond to IFN-α/β to restrict MNV replication in vivo. Furthermore, we show that the transcription factors IRF-3 and IRF-7 work in concert to initiate unique and overlapping antiviral responses to restrict MNV replication in vivo. IRF-3 and IRF-7 restrict MNV replication in both cultured macrophages and dendritic cells, are required for induction of IFN-α/β in macrophages but not dendritic cells, and are dispensable for the antiviral effects of IFN-α/β that block MNV replication. These studies suggest that expression of the IFN-α/β receptor on macrophages/neutrophils and dendritic cells, as well as of IRF-3 and IRF-7, is critical for innate immune responses to NoV infection.
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Essential cell-autonomous role for interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 1 in IFN-γ-mediated inhibition of norovirus replication in macrophages. J Virol 2012; 86:12655-64. [PMID: 22973039 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01564-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Noroviruses (NVs) cause the majority of cases of epidemic nonbacterial gastroenteritis worldwide and contribute to endemic enteric disease. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for immune control of their replication are not completely understood. Here we report that the transcription factor interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF-1) is required for control of murine NV (MNV) replication and pathogenesis in vivo. This led us to studies documenting a cell-autonomous role for IRF-1 in gamma interferon (IFN-γ)-mediated inhibition of MNV replication in primary macrophages. This role of IRF-1 in the inhibition of MNV replication by IFN-γ is independent of IFN-αβ signaling. While the signal transducer and activator of transcription STAT-1 was also required for IFN-γ-mediated inhibition of MNV replication in vitro, class II transactivator (CIITA), interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF-3), and interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF-7) were not required. We therefore hypothesized that there must be a subset of IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) regulated by IFN-γ in a manner dependent only on STAT-1 and IRF-1. Analysis of transcriptional profiles of macrophages lacking various transcription factors confirmed this hypothesis. These studies identify a key role for IRF-1 in IFN-γ-dependent control of norovirus infection in mice and macrophages.
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Tiled microarray identification of novel viral transcript structures and distinct transcriptional profiles during two modes of productive murine gammaherpesvirus 68 infection. J Virol 2012; 86:4340-57. [PMID: 22318145 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.05892-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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We applied a custom tiled microarray to examine murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68) polyadenylated transcript expression in a time course of de novo infection of fibroblast cells and following phorbol ester-mediated reactivation from a latently infected B cell line. During de novo infection, all open reading frames (ORFs) were transcribed and clustered into four major temporal groups that were overlapping yet distinct from clusters based on the phorbol ester-stimulated B cell reactivation time course. High-density transcript analysis at 2-h intervals during de novo infection mapped gene boundaries with a 20-nucleotide resolution, including a previously undefined ORF73 transcript and the MHV68 ORF63 homolog of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus vNLRP1. ORF6 transcript initiation was mapped by tiled array and confirmed by 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends. The ∼1.3-kb region upstream of ORF6 was responsive to lytic infection and MHV68 RTA, identifying a novel RTA-responsive promoter. Transcription in intergenic regions consistent with the previously defined expressed genomic regions was detected during both types of productive infection. We conclude that the MHV68 transcriptome is dynamic and distinct during de novo fibroblast infection and upon phorbol ester-stimulated B cell reactivation, highlighting the need to evaluate further transcript structure and the context-dependent molecular events that govern viral gene expression during chronic infection.
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Gammaherpesvirus gene expression and DNA synthesis are facilitated by viral protein kinase and histone variant H2AX. Virology 2011; 420:73-81. [PMID: 21943826 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2011.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2011] [Revised: 08/03/2011] [Accepted: 08/25/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Gammaherpesvirus protein kinases are an attractive therapeutic target as they support lytic replication and latency. Via an unknown mechanism these kinases enhance expression of select viral genes and DNA synthesis. Importantly, the kinase phenotypes have not been examined in primary cell types. Mouse gammaherpesvirus-68 (MHV68) protein kinase orf36 activates the DNA damage response (DDR) and facilitates lytic replication in primary macrophages. Significantly, H2AX, a DDR component and putative orf36 substrate, enhances MHV68 replication. Here we report that orf36 facilitated expression of RTA, an immediate early MHV68 gene, and DNA synthesis during de novo infection of primary macrophages. H2AX expression supported efficient RTA transcription and phosphorylated H2AX associated with RTA promoter. Furthermore, viral DNA synthesis was attenuated in H2AX-deficient macrophages, suggesting that the DDR system was exploited throughout the replication cycle. The interactions between a cancer-associated gammaherpesvirus and host tumor suppressor system have important implications for the pathogenesis of gammaherpesvirus infection.
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Deletion of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus FLICE inhibitory protein, vFLIP, from the viral genome compromises the activation of STAT1-responsive cellular genes and spindle cell formation in endothelial cells. J Virol 2011; 85:10375-88. [PMID: 21795355 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00226-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) Fas-associated death domain (FADD)-like interleukin-1 beta-converting enzyme (FLICE)-inhibitory protein, vFLIP, has antiapoptotic properties, is a potent activator of the NF-κB pathway, and induces the formation of endothelial spindle cells, the hallmark of Kaposi's sarcoma, when overexpressed in primary endothelial cells. We used a reverse genetics approach to study several functions of KSHV vFLIP in the context of the whole viral genome. Deletion of the gene encoding vFLIP from a KSHV genome cloned in a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) reduced the ability of the virus to persist and induce spindle cell formation in primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Only a few, mainly interferon (IFN)-responsive, genes were expressed in wild-type KSHV (KSHV-wt)-infected endothelial cells at levels higher than those in KSHV-ΔFLIP-infected endothelial cells, in contrast to the plethora of cellular genes induced by overexpressed vFLIP. In keeping with this observation, vFLIP induces the phosphorylation of STAT1 and STAT2 in an NF-κB-dependent manner in endothelial cells. vFLIP-dependent phosphorylation of STAT1 and STAT2 could be demonstrated after endothelial cells were infected with KSHV-wt, KSHV-ΔFLIP, and a KSHV-vFLIP revertant virus. These findings document the impact of KSHV vFLIP on the transcriptome of primary endothelial cells during viral persistence and highlight the role of vFLIP in the activation of STAT1/STAT2 and STAT-responsive cellular genes by KSHV.
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Barton E, Mandal P, Speck SH. Pathogenesis and host control of gammaherpesviruses: lessons from the mouse. Annu Rev Immunol 2011; 29:351-97. [PMID: 21219186 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-072710-081639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Gammaherpesviruses are lymphotropic viruses that are associated with the development of lymphoproliferative diseases, lymphomas, as well as other nonlymphoid cancers. Most known gammaherpesviruses establish latency in B lymphocytes. Research on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68/γHV68/MHV4) has revealed a complex relationship between virus latency and the stage of B cell differentiation. Available data support a model in which gammaherpesvirus infection drives B cell proliferation and differentiation. In general, the characterized gammaherpesviruses exhibit a very narrow host tropism, which has severely limited studies on the human gammaherpesviruses EBV and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. As such, there has been significant interest in developing animal models in which the pathogenesis of gammaherpesviruses can be characterized. MHV68 represents a unique model to define the effects of chronic viral infection on the antiviral immune response.
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- Erik Barton
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Histone deacetylases and the nuclear receptor corepressor regulate lytic-latent switch gene 50 in murine gammaherpesvirus 68-infected macrophages. J Virol 2010; 84:12039-47. [PMID: 20719946 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00396-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Gammaherpesviruses are important oncogenic pathogens that transit between lytic and latent life cycles. Silencing the lytic gene expression program enables the establishment of latency and a lifelong chronic infection of the host. In murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68, γHV68), essential lytic switch gene 50 controls the interchange between lytic and latent gene expression programs. However, negative regulators of gene 50 expression remain largely undefined. We report that the MHV68 lytic cycle is silenced in infected macrophages but not fibroblasts and that histone deacetylases (HDACs) mediate silencing. The HDAC inhibitor trichostatin A (TSA) acts on the gene 50 promoter to induce lytic replication of MHV68. HDAC3, HDAC4, and the nuclear receptor corepressor (NCoR) are required for efficient silencing of gene 50 expression. NCoR is critical for transcriptional repression of cellular genes by unliganded nuclear receptors. Retinoic acid, a known ligand for the NCoR complex, derepresses gene 50 expression and enhances MHV68 lytic replication. Moreover, HDAC3, HDAC4, and NCoR act on the gene 50 promoter and are recruited to this promoter in a retinoic acid-responsive manner. We provide the first example of NCoR-mediated, HDAC-dependent regulation of viral gene expression.
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Latency is a state of cryptic viral infection associated with genomic persistence and highly restricted gene expression. Its hallmark is reversibility: under appropriate circumstances, expression of the entire viral genome can be induced, resulting in the production of infectious progeny. Among the small number of virus families capable of authentic latency, the herpesviruses stand out for their ability to produce such infections in every infected individual and for being completely dependent upon latency as a mode of persistence. Here, we review the molecular basis of latency, with special attention to the gamma-herpesviruses, in which the understanding of this process is most advanced.
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- Samuel H Speck
- Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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