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Freppel W, Silva LA, Stapleford KA, Herrero LJ. Pathogenicity and virulence of chikungunya virus. Virulence 2024; 15:2396484. [PMID: 39193780 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2024.2396484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2024] [Revised: 08/09/2024] [Accepted: 08/14/2024] [Indexed: 08/29/2024] Open
Abstract
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-transmitted, RNA virus that causes an often-severe musculoskeletal illness characterized by fever, joint pain, and a range of debilitating symptoms. The virus has re-emerged as a global health threat in recent decades, spreading from its origin in Africa across Asia and the Americas, leading to widespread outbreaks impacting millions of people. Despite more than 50 years of research into the pathogenesis of CHIKV, there is still no curative treatment available. Current management of CHIKV infections primarily involves providing supportive care to alleviate symptoms and improve the patient's quality of life. Given the ongoing threat of CHIKV, there is an urgent need to better understand its pathogenesis. This understanding is crucial for deciphering the mechanisms underlying the disease and for developing effective strategies for both prevention and management. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of CHIKV and its pathogenesis, shedding light on the complex interactions of viral genetics, host factors, immune responses, and vector-related factors. By exploring these intricate connections, the review seeks to contribute to the knowledge base surrounding CHIKV, offering insights that may ultimately lead to more effective prevention and management strategies for this re-emerging global health threat.
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Affiliation(s)
- Wesley Freppel
- Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Southport, Australia
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Southport, Australia
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Gomes RP, Barbosa FF, Toledo MAS, Jorge SAC, Astray RM. Semliki Forest Virus (SFV) Self-Amplifying RNA Delivered to J774A.1 Macrophage Lineage by Its Association with a Purified Recombinant SFV Capsid Protein. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:7859. [PMID: 39063100 PMCID: PMC11276834 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25147859] [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: 04/22/2024] [Revised: 06/04/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
Abstract
The Semliki Forest virus capsid protein (C) is an RNA binding protein which exhibits both specific and unspecific affinities to single-strand nucleic acids. The putative use of the self-amplifying RNAs (saRNAs) of alphaviruses for biotechnological purpose is one of the main studied strategies concerning RNA-based therapies or immunization. In this work, a recombinant C protein from SFV was expressed and purified from bacteria and used to associate in vitro with a saRNA derived from SFV. Results showed that the purified form of C protein can associate with the saRNA even after high temperature treatment. The C protein was associated with a modified saRNA coding for the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and delivered to murine macrophage cells which expressed the GFP, showing that the saRNA was functional after being associated with the recombinant purified C protein.
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- Roselane P. Gomes
- Viral Biotechnology Laboratory, Butantan Institute, Av. Vital Brasil 1500, São Paulo 05503-900, Brazil; (R.P.G.); (S.A.C.J.)
- Programa Interunidades em Biotecnologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-060, Brazil;
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- Programa Interunidades em Biotecnologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-060, Brazil;
- Multipurpose Laboratory, Butantan Institute, Av. Vital Brasil 1500, São Paulo 05503-900, Brazil
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- Department of Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, 52074 Aachen, Germany;
- Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf (CIO ABCD), 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Viral Biotechnology Laboratory, Butantan Institute, Av. Vital Brasil 1500, São Paulo 05503-900, Brazil; (R.P.G.); (S.A.C.J.)
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- Multipurpose Laboratory, Butantan Institute, Av. Vital Brasil 1500, São Paulo 05503-900, Brazil
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Twarock R, Towers GJ, Stockley PG. Molecular frustration: a hypothesis for regulation of viral infections. Trends Microbiol 2024; 32:17-26. [PMID: 37507296 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.07.003] [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: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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The recent revolution in imaging techniques and results from RNA footprinting in situ reveal how the bacteriophage MS2 genome regulates both particle assembly and genome release. We have proposed a model in which multiple packaging signal (PS) RNA-coat protein (CP) contacts orchestrate different stages of a viral life cycle. Programmed formation and release of specific PS contacts with CP regulates viral particle assembly and genome uncoating during cell entry. We hypothesize that molecular frustration, a concept introduced to understand protein folding, can be used to better rationalize how PSs function in both particle assembly and genome release. More broadly this concept may explain the directionality of viral life cycles, for example, the roles of host cofactors in HIV infection. We propose that this is a universal principle in virology that explains mechanisms of host-virus interaction and suggests diverse therapeutic interventions.
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- Reidun Twarock
- Departments of Mathematics and Biology & York Cross-Disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis, University of York, York, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Tapescu I, Taschuk F, Pokharel SM, Zginnyk O, Ferretti M, Bailer PF, Whig K, Madden EA, Heise MT, Schultz DC, Cherry S. The RNA helicase DDX39A binds a conserved structure in chikungunya virus RNA to control infection. Mol Cell 2023; 83:4174-4189.e7. [PMID: 37949067 PMCID: PMC10722560 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.10.008] [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: 10/17/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Alphaviruses are a large group of re-emerging arthropod-borne RNA viruses. The compact viral RNA genomes harbor diverse structures that facilitate replication. These structures can be recognized by antiviral cellular RNA-binding proteins, including DExD-box (DDX) helicases, that bind viral RNAs to control infection. The full spectrum of antiviral DDXs and the structures that are recognized remain unclear. Genetic screening identified DDX39A as antiviral against the alphavirus chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and other medically relevant alphaviruses. Upon infection, the predominantly nuclear DDX39A accumulates in the cytoplasm inhibiting alphavirus replication, independent of the canonical interferon pathway. Biochemically, DDX39A binds to CHIKV genomic RNA, interacting with the 5' conserved sequence element (5'CSE), which is essential for the antiviral activity of DDX39A. Altogether, DDX39A relocalization and binding to a conserved structural element in the alphavirus genomic RNA attenuates infection, revealing a previously unknown layer to the cellular control of infection.
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- Iulia Tapescu
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Biochemistry and Biophysics Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Biochemistry and Biophysics Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Genetics, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Saunders K, Thuenemann EC, Peyret H, Lomonossoff GP. The Tobacco Mosaic Virus Origin of Assembly Sequence is Dispensable for Specific Viral RNA Encapsidation but Necessary for Initiating Assembly at a Single Site. J Mol Biol 2022; 434:167873. [PMID: 36328231 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We have investigated whether the presence of the origin of assembly sequence (OAS) of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is necessary for the specific encapsidation of replicating viral RNA. To this end TMV coat protein was expressed from replicating RNA constructs with or without the OAS in planta. In both cases the replicating RNA was specifically encapsidated to give nucleoprotein nanorods, though the yield in the absence of the OAS was reduced to about 60% of that in its presence. Moreover, the nanorods generated in the absence of the OAS were more heterogeneous in length and contained frequent structural discontinuities. These results strongly suggest that the function of the OAS is to provide a unique site for the initiation of viral assembly, leading to a one-start helix, rather than the selection of virus RNA for packaging.
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- Keith Saunders
- Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
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Chandler-Bostock R, Bingham RJ, Clark S, Scott AJP, Wroblewski E, Barker A, White SJ, Dykeman EC, Mata CP, Bohon J, Farquhar E, Twarock R, Stockley PG. Genome-regulated Assembly of a ssRNA Virus May Also Prepare It for Infection. J Mol Biol 2022; 434:167797. [PMID: 35998704 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Many single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses regulate assembly of their infectious virions by forming multiple, cognate coat protein (CP)-genome contacts at sites termed Packaging Signals (PSs). We have determined the secondary structures of the bacteriophage MS2 ssRNA genome (gRNA) frozen in defined states using constraints from X-ray synchrotron footprinting (XRF). Comparison of the footprints from phage and transcript confirms the presence of multiple PSs in contact with CP dimers in the former. This is also true for a virus-like particle (VLP) assembled around the gRNA in vitro in the absence of the single-copy Maturation Protein (MP) found in phage. Since PS folds are present at many sites across gRNA transcripts, it appears that this genome has evolved to facilitate this mechanism of assembly regulation. There are striking differences between the gRNA-CP contacts seen in phage and the VLP, suggesting that the latter are inappropriate surrogates for aspects of phage structure/function. Roughly 50% of potential PS sites in the gRNA are not in contact with the protein shell of phage. However, many of these sit adjacent to, albeit not in contact with, PS-binding sites on CP dimers. We hypothesize that these act as PSs transiently during assembly but subsequently dissociate. Combining the XRF data with PS locations from an asymmetric cryo-EM reconstruction suggests that the genome positions of such dissociations are non-random and may facilitate infection. The loss of many PS-CP interactions towards the 3' end of the gRNA would allow this part of the genome to transit more easily through the narrow basal body of the pilus extruding machinery. This is the known first step in phage infection. In addition, each PS-CP dissociation event leaves the protein partner trapped in a non-lowest free-energy conformation. This destabilizes the protein shell which must disassemble during infection, further facilitating this stage of the life-cycle.
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- Departments of Mathematics and Biology & York Cross-Disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis, University of York, York, UK
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- Departments of Mathematics and Biology & York Cross-Disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis, University of York, York, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Departments of Mathematics and Biology & York Cross-Disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis, University of York, York, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- CWRU Center for Synchrotron Biosciences, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- CWRU Center for Synchrotron Biosciences, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Departments of Mathematics and Biology & York Cross-Disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis, University of York, York, UK.
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
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