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Cheeseman T, Barlow J, Acebes JM, Audley K, Bejder L, Birdsall C, Bracamontes OS, Bradford AL, Byington J, Calambokidis J, Cartwright R, Cedarleaf J, Chavez AJG, Currie J, De Castro RC, De Weerdt J, Doe N, Doniol-Valcroze T, Dracott K, Filatova O, Finn R, Flynn KR, Ford J, Frisch-Jordán A, Gabriele C, Goodwin B, Hayslip C, Hildering J, Hill MC, Jacobsen JK, Jiménez-López ME, Jones M, Kobayashi N, Lammers M, Lyman E, Malleson M, Mamaev E, Loustalot PM, Masterman A, Matkin CO, McMillan C, Moore J, Moran J, Neilson JL, Newell H, Okabe H, Olio M, Ortega-Ortiz CD, Pack AA, Palacios DM, Pearson H, Quintana-Rizzo E, Barragán RR, Ransome N, Rosales-Nanduca H, Sharpe F, Shaw T, Southerland K, Stack S, Staniland I, Straley J, Szabo A, Teerlink S, Titova O, Urban-Ramirez J, van Aswegen M, Vinicius M, von Ziegesar O, Witteveen B, Wray J, Yano K, Yegin I, Zwiefelhofer D, Clapham P. Bellwethers of change: population modelling of North Pacific humpback whales from 2002 through 2021 reveals shift from recovery to climate response. R Soc Open Sci 2024; 11:231462. [PMID: 38420629 PMCID: PMC10898971 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
Abstract
For the 40 years after the end of commercial whaling in 1976, humpback whale populations in the North Pacific Ocean exhibited a prolonged period of recovery. Using mark-recapture methods on the largest individual photo-identification dataset ever assembled for a cetacean, we estimated annual ocean-basin-wide abundance for the species from 2002 through 2021. Trends in annual estimates describe strong post-whaling era population recovery from 16 875 (± 5955) in 2002 to a peak abundance estimate of 33 488 (± 4455) in 2012. An apparent 20% decline from 2012 to 2021, 33 488 (± 4455) to 26 662 (± 4192), suggests the population abruptly reached carrying capacity due to loss of prey resources. This was particularly evident for humpback whales wintering in Hawai'i, where, by 2021, estimated abundance had declined by 34% from a peak in 2013, down to abundance levels previously seen in 2006, and contrasted to an absence of decline in Mainland Mexico breeding humpbacks. The strongest marine heatwave recorded globally to date during the 2014-2016 period appeared to have altered the course of species recovery, with enduring effects. Extending this time series will allow humpback whales to serve as an indicator species for the ecosystem in the face of a changing climate.
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- Ted Cheeseman
- Marine Ecology Research Centre, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
- Happywhale, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA
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- Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI, USA
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- Marine Education and Research Society, Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Pacific Wildlife Foundation Canada, Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
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- The Keiki Kohola Project, Delray Beach, FL, USA
- California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, USA
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- University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka Campus, Sitka, AK, USA
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- Association ELI-S, Gujan-Mestras, France
- Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium
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- Marine Education and Research Society, Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada
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- Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Kīhei, HI, USA
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- Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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- Hawai'i Marine Mammal Consortium, Waimea, HI, USA
- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Gustavus, AK, USA
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- Eye of the Whale Marine Mammal Research, Kamuela, HI, USA
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- Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA
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- Marine Education and Research Society, Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Departamento Académico de Ingeniería en Pesquerías, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, BCS, Mexico
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- Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Kīhei, HI, USA
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- Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Kīhei, HI, USA
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- FGBU Gosudarstvennyj zapovednik Komandorskij, Commander Islands, Kamchatka Krai, Russia
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- National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Auke Bay Laboratories, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Juneau, AK, USA
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- Marine Education and Research Society, Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada
- Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Auke Bay Laboratories, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Juneau, AK, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, HI, USA
- The Dolphin Institute, Hilo, HI, USA
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- College of Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia
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- Departamento Académico de Ingeniería en Pesquerías, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, BCS, Mexico
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- McCowan Lab, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Humpback Whales of the Salish Sea, Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
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- Juneau Flukes, Juneau, AK, USA
- NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office, Juneau, AK, USA
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- A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI, USA
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- University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- North Coast Cetacean Society, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Happywhale, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
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Cheeseman T, Southerland K, Acebes JM, Audley K, Barlow J, Bejder L, Birdsall C, Bradford AL, Byington JK, Calambokidis J, Cartwright R, Cedarleaf J, Chavez AJG, Currie JJ, De Weerdt J, Doe N, Doniol-Valcroze T, Dracott K, Filatova O, Finn R, Flynn K, Ford JKB, Frisch-Jordán A, Gabriele CM, Goodwin B, Hayslip C, Hildering J, Hill MC, Jacobsen JK, Jiménez-López ME, Jones M, Kobayashi N, Lyman E, Malleson M, Mamaev E, Martínez Loustalot P, Masterman A, Matkin C, McMillan CJ, Moore JE, Moran JR, Neilson JL, Newell H, Okabe H, Olio M, Pack AA, Palacios DM, Pearson HC, Quintana-Rizzo E, Ramírez Barragán RF, Ransome N, Rosales-Nanduca H, Sharpe F, Shaw T, Stack SH, Staniland I, Straley J, Szabo A, Teerlink S, Titova O, Urban R J, van Aswegen M, de Morais MV, von Ziegesar O, Witteveen B, Wray J, Yano KM, Zwiefelhofer D, Clapham P. A collaborative and near-comprehensive North Pacific humpback whale photo-ID dataset. Sci Rep 2023; 13:10237. [PMID: 37353581 PMCID: PMC10290149 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36928-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/25/2023] Open
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We present an ocean-basin-scale dataset that includes tail fluke photographic identification (photo-ID) and encounter data for most living individual humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the North Pacific Ocean. The dataset was built through a broad collaboration combining 39 separate curated photo-ID catalogs, supplemented with community science data. Data from throughout the North Pacific were aggregated into 13 regions, including six breeding regions, six feeding regions, and one migratory corridor. All images were compared with minimal pre-processing using a recently developed image recognition algorithm based on machine learning through artificial intelligence; this system is capable of rapidly detecting matches between individuals with an estimated 97-99% accuracy. For the 2001-2021 study period, a total of 27,956 unique individuals were documented in 157,350 encounters. Each individual was encountered, on average, in 5.6 sampling periods (i.e., breeding and feeding seasons), with an annual average of 87% of whales encountered in more than one season. The combined dataset and image recognition tool represents a living and accessible resource for collaborative, basin-wide studies of a keystone marine mammal in a time of rapid ecological change.
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- Ted Cheeseman
- Happywhale, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
- Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia.
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- NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, San Diego, California, USA
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- Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Kaneohe, Hawai'i, USA
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- Marine Education and Research Society, Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada
- Ocean Wise, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
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- Pacific Wildlife Foundation, Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
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- Marine Education and Research Society, Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada
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- Ocean Wise, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- North Coast Cetacean Society, Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, USA
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- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Gustavus, Alaska, USA
- Hawai'i Marine Mammal Consortium, Kamuela, Hawai'i, USA
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- Eye of the Whale Marine Mammal Research, Kamuela, Hawai'i, USA
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- Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, Newport, Oregon, USA
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- Marine Education and Research Society, Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
- Cooperative Institution of Marine and Atmospheric Research, Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
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- Departamento Académico de Ingeniería en Pesquerías, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México
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- NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, USA
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- Humpback Whales of the Salish Sea, Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
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- Commander Islands National Park, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
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- Marine Education and Research Society, Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, San Diego, California, USA
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- NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Juneau, Alaska, USA
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- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Gustavus, Alaska, USA
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- Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Kunigami-gun, Japan
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- University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai'i, USA
- The Dolphin Institute, Hilo, Hawai'i, USA
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- Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, Newport, Oregon, USA
- Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University, Newport, Oregon, USA
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- Departamento Académico de Ingeniería en Pesquerías, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México
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- Alaska Whale Foundation, Petersburg, Alaska, USA
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- Humpback Whales of the Salish Sea, Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
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- University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, Alaska, USA
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- Alaska Whale Foundation, Petersburg, Alaska, USA
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- NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office, Juneau, Alaska, USA
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- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Mexico
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- North Coast Cetacean Society, Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada
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- NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
- Cooperative Institution of Marine and Atmospheric Research, Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
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- Seastar Scientific, Vashon Island, Washington, USA
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Christiansen F, Uhart MM, Bejder L, Clapham P, Ivashchenko Y, Tormosov D, Lewin N, Sironi M. Foetal growth, birth size and energetic cost of gestation in southern right whales. J Physiol 2022; 600:2245-2266. [PMID: 35261040 PMCID: PMC9322553 DOI: 10.1113/jp282351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Abstract The cost of reproduction greatly affects a species’ life history strategy. Baleen whales exhibit some of the fastest offspring growth rates in the animal kingdom. We quantified the energetic cost of gestation for southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) by combining whaling catch records of pregnant females with photogrammetry data on southern right whale mothers and calves from two breeding grounds in Argentina and Australia. The relationship between calf birth size and maternal length was determined from repeated measurements of individual females before and after giving birth. Fetal growth was determined from generalized linear models fitted to fetal length data from whaling operations between 1961 and 1967. Fetal length was converted to volume and mass, using the volume‐to‐length relationship of newborn southern right whales calves, and published tissue composition and energy content estimates. Fetal maintenance costs (heat of gestation) and the energy content of the placenta were predicted from published relationships and added to the fetal growth cost to calculate the total cost of gestation. Our findings showed that fetal growth rates and birth size increased linearly with maternal length, with calves being born at ∼35% maternal length. Fetal length increased curvilinearly through gestation, which resulted in an exponential increase in fetal volume and mass. Consequently, the cost of gestation was very low during the first (0.1% of total cost) and second trimester (4.9%), but increased rapidly during the last trimester (95.0%). The heat of gestation incurred the highest cost for pregnant females (73.8%), followed by fetal growth (21.2%) and the placental energy content (5.0%). Key points Baleen whales exhibit some of the fastest fetal growth rates in the animal kingdom. Despite this, the energetic cost of gestation is largely unknown, as well as the influence of maternal body size on fetal growth rates and calf birth sizes. We combined historical whaling records and drone photogrammetry data to determine fetal growth rates and birth sizes in southern right whales (Eubalaena australis), from which we estimated the cost of gestation. Calf birth size, and consequent fetal growth rates, increased positively with maternal body size. The cost of gestation was negligible for southern right whale females during the first two trimesters, but increased rapidly during the last trimester. These results show that late gestation incurs a significant cost for baleen whale females, and needs to be accounted for in bioenergetic models.
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- Fredrik Christiansen
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, Aarhus C, 8000, Denmark.,Zoophysiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, Aarhus C, 8000, Denmark
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- Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, 9120, Argentina.,Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, 95616, USA
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- Zoophysiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, Aarhus C, 8000, Denmark.,Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI, 96744, USA
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- Seastar Scientific Russia, Kaliningrad, Karl Marx St 76, 236022, Russia
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- Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, 9120, Argentina.,Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Diversidad Animal II, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, 5000, Argentina
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- Phil Clapham
- Researcher with the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, in Seattle, Washington. He specializes in the biology, behavior, and conservation management of large whales worldwide
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Lamers S, Nolan D, Rose R, Breese R, Somasundaran M, Clapham P. Pacific biosciences small molecule real-time (SMRT) deep sequencing detects significant viral population structure in brain vs non-brain autopsy tissues from combined antiretroviral therapy (cART)-positive subjects. J Virus Erad 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/s2055-6640(20)30616-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Garrigue C, Zerbini AN, Geyer Y, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Hanaoka W, Clapham P. Movements of satellite-monitored humpback whales from New Caledonia. J Mammal 2010. [DOI: 10.1644/09-mamm-a-033r.1.] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Hubbard TJP, Aken BL, Ayling S, Ballester B, Beal K, Bragin E, Brent S, Chen Y, Clapham P, Clarke L, Coates G, Fairley S, Fitzgerald S, Fernandez-Banet J, Gordon L, Graf S, Haider S, Hammond M, Holland R, Howe K, Jenkinson A, Johnson N, Kahari A, Keefe D, Keenan S, Kinsella R, Kokocinski F, Kulesha E, Lawson D, Longden I, Megy K, Meidl P, Overduin B, Parker A, Pritchard B, Rios D, Schuster M, Slater G, Smedley D, Spooner W, Spudich G, Trevanion S, Vilella A, Vogel J, White S, Wilder S, Zadissa A, Birney E, Cunningham F, Curwen V, Durbin R, Fernandez-Suarez XM, Herrero J, Kasprzyk A, Proctor G, Smith J, Searle S, Flicek P. Ensembl 2009. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 37:D690-7. [PMID: 19033362 PMCID: PMC2686571 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 683] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The Ensembl project (http://www.ensembl.org) is a comprehensive genome information system featuring an integrated set of genome annotation, databases, and other information for chordate, selected model organism and disease vector genomes. As of release 51 (November 2008), Ensembl fully supports 45 species, and three additional species have preliminary support. New species in the past year include orangutan and six additional low coverage mammalian genomes. Major additions and improvements to Ensembl since our previous report include a major redesign of our website; generation of multiple genome alignments and ancestral sequences using the new Enredo-Pecan-Ortheus pipeline and development of our software infrastructure, particularly to support the Ensembl Genomes project (http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/).
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- T J P Hubbard
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK.
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In many developing countries, the killing of wild animals for commercial purposes (the bushmeat trade) is a significant factor in the reduction of biodiversity, and probably represents a major threat to the survival of many more populations than we know. This includes marine species such as cetaceans, sea turtles and sirenians ("marine bushmeat"), which are often neglected in the discussion of this issue. Estimating the impact of the bushmeat trade anywhere is problematic because even the most thorough visual surveys of meat markets cannot easily translate an observed quantity of butchered products into the number of animals killed. In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Baker et al. provide a powerful new tool for such assessments: molecular identification of commercially available products from a depleted population of minke whales in South Korea is combined with genotyping and novel capture-recapture methods to estimate not only the number of individuals taken, but also the persistence of the resulting products in the marketplace.
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- Phil Clapham
- Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA.
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Hill MA, Ford JR, Clapham P, Marsden SJ, Stevens DL, Townsend KMS, Goodhead DT. Bound PCNA in nuclei of primary rat tracheal epithelial cells after exposure to very low doses of plutonium-238 alpha particles. Radiat Res 2005; 163:36-44. [PMID: 15606305 DOI: 10.1667/rr3282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Bystander effects from ionizing radiation have been detailed for a number of cell systems and a number of end points. We wished to use a cell culture/ex vivo rat model of respiratory tissue to determine whether a bystander effect detected in culture could also be shown in a tissue. Examination by immunofluorescence techniques of tracheal cell cultures after exposure to very low doses of alpha particles revealed a large proportion of cells with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) bound in their nuclei. PCNA was selected as an end point because it is involved in both DNA repair and the changes in cell cycle that are typical of many reported bystander effects. Maximum response can be detected in up to 28% of the cells in sub-confluent cultures with a dose of only 2 mGy. At this dose less than 2% of the cell nuclei have experienced a particle traversal and less than 6% of the cells have experienced an alpha-particle traversal through either their nucleus or some part of their cytoplasm. The hypothesis that this bystander response in nontargeted cells is mediated through secreted factor(s) is presented, and supporting evidence was found using partial irradiation and co-culture experiments. Examination of the effect with excised pieces of trachea demonstrated a response similar to that seen in culture.
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- M A Hill
- Medical Research Council, Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, United Kingdom
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Vyakarnam A, Eyeson J, Teo I, Zuckerman M, Babaahmady K, Schuitemaker H, Shaunak S, Rostron T, Rowland-Jones S, Simmons G, Clapham P. Evidence for a post-entry barrier to R5 HIV-1 infection of CD4 memory T cells. AIDS 2001; 15:1613-26. [PMID: 11546935 DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200109070-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND HIV-1 strains R5 and X4 can infect CD4 memory T cells in vivo. Anti-CD3/28 stimulation induces beta-chemokines and CCR5 down-regulation and renders these cells resistant to R5 HIV-1 infection. Here we describe an additional cellular mechanism that blocks productive R5 HIV-1 infection of CD4 memory T cells. METHODS Blood-derived CD4 memory T cells and CD4 T-cell clones were infected with primary R5 and X4 HIV-1 strains. Virus replication was correlated with CCR5 expression and beta-chemokine production. Virus entry and infectivity were measured by PCR for early and late products of HIV reverse transcription respectively. RESULTS R5 strains were up to 1000-fold less infectious than X4 viruses for CD4 memory T cells. This resistance was independent of CCR5 levels and of the Delta-32 mutation and the CCR2-V64I/CCR5-59653T linked mutations. Blocking endogenous beta-chemokines relieved minimally this restriction. At the single cell level, CD4 memory cells were either permissive or non-permissive for R5 HIV-1 infection. R5 HIV titre was up to 10-fold lower than X4 virus titre even in a permissive clone. However, R5 viruses replicated as efficiently as X4 viruses in the permissive clone when neutralizing anti-beta chemokine antibodies were added. Non-permissive cells blocked a post-entry step of the virus life-cycle and expressed early but not late HIV transcripts. Neutralizing anti-beta chemokine antibodies promoted R5 virus replication marginally in the non-permissive clone. CONCLUSION Some blood memory CD4 T cells retard R5 HIV-1 replication via endogenous beta-chemokines whereas others block productive R5 HIV-1 infection by an additional mechanism that interferes with a post-entry step of the virus life cycle. These natural barriers might contribute to lower pathogenicity of R5 HIV-1 strains for CD4 memory T cells than X4 viruses that emerge late in disease.
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- A Vyakarnam
- Department of Immunology, GKT School of Medicine and Dentistry, The Rayne Institute, London, UK
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McKnight A, Griffiths DJ, Dittmar M, Clapham P, Thomas E. Characterization of a late entry event in the replication cycle of human immunodeficiency virus type 2. J Virol 2001; 75:6914-22. [PMID: 11435571 PMCID: PMC114419 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.15.6914-6922.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2000] [Accepted: 05/08/2001] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Certain human cell lines and primary macrophage cultures are restricted to infection by some primary isolates of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2), although early steps of the viral life cycle such as fusion at the plasma membrane and reverse transcription are fully supported. The late postintegration events, transcription, translation, assembly, budding, and maturation into infectious virions are functional in restrictive cells. Apart from primary macrophages, the restrictive cell types are actively dividing, and nuclear import of preintegration complexes (PICs) is not required for infection. We therefore postulate that the PICs are trapped in a cellular compartment, preventing subsequent steps in the replication cycle that lead to integration of the provirus. To test this we showed that HIV-2 particles pseudotyped with vesicular stomatitis virus envelope G protein, which delivers HIV into an endocytic compartment, could overcome the block to infection. We suggest that delivery of the viral core into an appropriate cellular compartment is a critical step during the entry process of HIV.
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- McKnight A
- Wohl Virion Centre, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, University College London, London W1T 4JF, United Kingdom.
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Stine JT, Wood C, Hill M, Epp A, Raport CJ, Schweickart VL, Endo Y, Sasaki T, Simmons G, Boshoff C, Clapham P, Chang Y, Moore P, Gray PW, Chantry D. KSHV-encoded CC chemokine vMIP-III is a CCR4 agonist, stimulates angiogenesis, and selectively chemoattracts TH2 cells. Blood 2000; 95:1151-7. [PMID: 10666184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) encodes 3 genes that are homologous to cellular chemokines. vMIP-III, the product of open reading frame K4.1, is the most distantly related to human chemokines and has yet to be characterized. We have examined the interaction of vMIP-III with chemokine receptors, its expression in KS lesions, and its in ovo angiogenic properties. We show expression of vMIP-III in KS lesions and demonstrate the stimulation of angiogenesis by this chemokine, like vMIP-I and vMIP-II, in the chick chorioallantoic membrane assay. vMIP-III does not block human immunodeficiency virus entry through the coreceptors CCR3, CCR5, or CXCR4. However, vMIP-III is an agonist for the cellular chemokine receptor CCR4. CCR4 is expressed by TH2-type T cells. Consistent with this, vMIP-III preferentially chemoattracts this cell type. Because of these biologic properties and because it is expressed in KS lesions, vMIP-III may play an important role in the pathobiology of KS. (Blood. 2000;95:1151-1157)
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MESH Headings
- Allantois/blood supply
- Animals
- CHO Cells
- Cell Line
- Chemokines, CC/genetics
- Chemokines, CC/immunology
- Chemokines, CC/pharmacology
- Chemokines, CC/physiology
- Chemotaxis/drug effects
- Chemotaxis/physiology
- Chick Embryo
- Chorion/blood supply
- Cricetinae
- HIV/drug effects
- HIV/physiology
- Herpesvirus 8, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 8, Human/immunology
- Humans
- Neovascularization, Physiologic/drug effects
- Neovascularization, Physiologic/physiology
- Open Reading Frames
- Receptors, CCR4
- Receptors, Chemokine/agonists
- Recombinant Proteins/immunology
- Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/immunology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/pathology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/virology
- Th1 Cells/drug effects
- Th1 Cells/physiology
- Th2 Cells/drug effects
- Th2 Cells/physiology
- Transfection
- Viral Proteins
- Virus Replication/drug effects
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- J T Stine
- ICOS Corporation, Bothell, WA 98021, USA
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Valsecchi E, Palsbøll P, Hale P, Glockner-Ferrari D, Ferrari M, Clapham P, Larsen F, Mattila D, Sears R, Sigurjonsson J, Brown M, Corkeron P, Amos B. Microsatellite genetic distances between oceanic populations of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Mol Biol Evol 1997; 14:355-62. [PMID: 9100365 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of humpback whales show strong segregation between oceanic populations and between feeding grounds within oceans, but this highly structured pattern does not exclude the possibility of extensive nuclear gene flow. Here we present allele frequency data for four microsatellite loci typed across samples from four major oceanic regions: the North Atlantic (two mitochondrially distinct populations), the North Pacific, and two widely separated Antarctic regions, East Australia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Allelic diversity is a little greater in the two Antarctic samples, probably indicating historically greater population sizes. Population subdivision was examined using a wide range of measures, including Fst, various alternative forms of Slatkin's Rst, Goldstein and colleagues' delta mu, and a Monte Carlo approximation to Fisher's exact test. The exact test revealed significant heterogeneity in all but one of the pairwise comparisons between geographically adjacent populations, including the comparison between the two North Atlantic populations, suggesting that gene flow between oceans is minimal and that dispersal patterns may sometimes be restricted even in the absence of obvious barriers, such as land masses, warm water belts, and antitropical migration behavior. The only comparison where heterogeneity was not detected was the one between the two Antarctic population samples. It is unclear whether failure to find a difference here reflects gene flow between the regions or merely lack of statistical power arising from the small size of the Antarctic Peninsula sample. Our comparison between measures of population subdivision revealed major discrepancies between methods, with little agreement about which populations were most and least separated. We suggest that unbiased Rst (URst, see Goodman 1995) is currently the most reliable statistic, probably because, unlike the other methods, it allows for unequal sample sizes. However, in view of the fact that these alternative measures often contradict one another, we urge caution in the use of microsatellite data to quantify genetic distance.
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- E Valsecchi
- Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, UK
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Two compounds found in garlic, diallyl sulfide (DAS) and diallyl disulfide (DDS), were tested for cytotoxic and genotoxic effects in a Chinese hamster ovary cell line. DDS was found to be more cytotoxic than DAS (showing a Dq of 1.6 micrograms/ml and a D0 of 0.6 microgram/ml as opposed to values of 295 and 90 micrograms/ml, respectively). Both compounds were found to induce both chromosome aberrations and sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) with DDS again being more active on a weight-for-weight basis, exhibiting activity at concentrations below 10 micrograms/ml compared with the levels of 300 micrograms/ml and above required for DAS to show any effect. The addition of rat liver S-9 activation fraction to the assays modified the effects of the two compounds in a non-consistent manner. It reduced the induction of SCEs by both compounds, enhanced the generation of aberrations by DDS (but not by DAS) and radically altered the parameters of both survival curves, reducing the Dq values almost to zero but increasing the D0 values.
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- S R Musk
- Institute of Food Research, Norwich Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, UK
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We have analyzed the role of CD4 endocytosis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) entry by measuring the infection of HeLa cells expressing various CD4 constructs with endocytosis rates of between 0.2 and 30%/min in a quantitative infectious focus assay. For a number of laboratory-adapted HIV-1 and HIV-2 strains, the highest levels of infection were found on cells with very limited CD4 endocytosis, while cells with efficient CD4 uptake were only poorly infectable, suggesting that CD4 internalization is not required for HIV entry. This was confirmed in a modified assay involving prebinding of HIV-1LAI to HeLa-CD4 cells at 4 degrees C, synchronized virus entry during warming to 37 degrees C, and neutralization of virions remaining at the cell surface with anti-V3 loop antibodies. Warming cells in hypertonic medium inhibited CD4 endocytosis but did not affect the rate or the extent of infection. These studies confirm that HIV infection does not require endocytosis and that laboratory-adapted virus strains can enter HeLa-CD4 cells by fusion at the plasma membrane.
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- A Pelchen-Matthews
- Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, United Kingdom
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Clapham P, McKnight A, Simmons G, Weiss R. Is CD4 sufficient for HIV entry? Cell surface molecules involved in HIV infection. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1993; 342:67-73. [PMID: 7904349 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1993.0137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIV each bind to CD4 as the first step in virus entry. However, alternative receptors may also be used. HIV-1 binds to glycolipids with terminal galactosylceramide residues on neural cells; opsonized virus binds to Fc receptors; HIV-2 can infect certain CD4-negative cells. Further receptors may also play a role in CD4-mediated infection, including cell adhesion molecules and possibly cell surface proteinases. After binding to CD4, immunodeficiency viruses require secondary molecules to effect fusion between the virus envelope and the cell membrane; these accessory requirements differ between HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIV.
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- P Clapham
- Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, London, U.K
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Beer S, Clapham P, Kohler K, Murphy F, Graham K, Dinning D. Transplant nursing. Transplant nursing at Papworth Hospital. Nurs Stand 1992; 6:52-5. [PMID: 1596456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Broliden PA, von Gegerfelt A, Clapham P, Rosen J, Fenyö EM, Wahren B, Broliden K. Identification of human neutralization-inducing regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope glycoproteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:461-5. [PMID: 1370580 PMCID: PMC48258 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.2.461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Four major neutralizing regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein were identified and characterized with a panel of 80 HIV-1 antibody-positive human sera. Levels of neutralizing antibodies against the HIV-1 strains IIIB, SF2, and RF were compared with reactivity in ELISAs against peptides that correspond to certain regions of the HIV-1 envelope. A correlation between high neutralizing activity and strong seroreactivity against specific peptides suggested that the corresponding regions might be involved in neutralization. This was further substantiated by using peptides to inhibit neutralization by a panel of 10 HIV-1 antibody-positive sera. The positions of three neutralizing sites, defined earlier mostly by antisera from animals, were confirmed in the present study. Human sera thus recognize the strain-specific third variable region of gp120 (amino acids 304-318), the C-terminal end of gp120 (amino acids 489-508), and the conserved region in the intracellular part of gp41 (amino acids 732-746). It is likely that these different regions mediate help rather than self-sufficient neutralization. Furthermore, a human neutralizing region was detected in a conserved part of gp41 (amino acids 647-671). Accordingly, neutralizing antibodies directed to this region were found to be cross-reactive between HIV-1 strains. Peptides corresponding to these four regions were able to inhibit neutralization mediated by serum from HIV-1 antibody-positive individuals. These results indicate that this conserved B-cell epitope of the HIV-1 envelope elicits a virus-neutralizing antibody response during natural infection in humans and may therefore be considered for inclusion in a vaccine against HIV-1.
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- P A Broliden
- Department of Virology, National Bacteriological Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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McKeating J, Balfe P, Clapham P, Weiss RA. Recombinant CD4-selected human immunodeficiency virus type 1 variants with reduced gp120 affinity for CD4 and increased cell fusion capacity. J Virol 1991; 65:4777-85. [PMID: 1870202 PMCID: PMC248935 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.9.4777-4785.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Variants of molecularly cloned human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) were analyzed following selection for the ability to replicate after exposure to soluble, recombinant CD4 protein (rCD4). Two variants, 4/1 and 16/2, show 8-fold and 16-fold reduced sensitivity to rCD4 neutralization yet remain as sensitive as the parental wild-type (wt) virus to neutralization by rCD4-immunoglobulin G (IgG) chimeric molecules and to inhibition of cellular infection by anti-CD4 antibody. The 4/1 variant is more cytopathic, with faster cell fusion and replication kinetics than the wt virus. The gp120s derived from the 4/1 and 16/2 variants have 3-fold and 30-fold reduced binding affinities to rCD4, respectively. The 4/1 variant exhibits diminished shedding of virion gp120 induced by rCD4. The binding of and neutralization by V3 loop antibodies and other anti-gp120 antibodies is reduced for 4/1 but not for 16/2. Sequence analysis revealed a codon change at amino acid residue 435 in the C4 region of the gp120 of 16/2. This accounts for its rCD4 insensitivity, since the insertion of this mutation in the wt gp120 yields the same phenotype. The 4/1 variant has a codon change in the V3 region of gp120 (amino acid 311), which accounts for its reduced sensitivity to some neutralizing antibodies but not to rCD4. The ready selection of rCD4-resistant variants has obvious relevance for rCD4-based therapeutic stratagems.
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- J McKeating
- Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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Durda PJ, Bacheler L, Clapham P, Jenoski AM, Leece B, Matthews TJ, McKnight A, Pomerantz R, Rayner M, Weinhold KJ. HIV-1 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies induced by a synthetic peptide. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1990; 6:1115-23. [PMID: 1702301 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1990.6.1115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We have developed a series of murine monoclonal antibodies to a region of the 120 kD envelope glycoprotein (gp120) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). This region has previously been implicated as a site for virus neutralization by antisera raised to recombinant proteins and by antibodies made to full-length gp120 purified from virus. The antigen employed was a synthetic peptide containing 15 amino acids, representing amino acid residues 308-322, RIQRGPGRAFVTIGK, of env gp120 (HTLV-IIIB isolate). Five of the monoclonal antibodies raised to this antigen have reactivity with gp120 from divergent strains of HIV-1 in Western blot assays. The two of these five which were tested with live cells infected with the divergent HIV-1 isolates IIIB, MN, and RF were specifically reactive by fluorescence analyses with cells infected with the MN and IIIB isolates. Four of the five monoclonal antibodies blocked the fusion of IIIB-infected cells with uninfected MOLT-4 target cells. The monoclonal antibody most reactive with MN-infected cells by fluorescence, #5025A, blocked the fusion of MN-infected cells with uninfected MOLT-4 cells. Four of the five monoclonal antibodies neutralized the IIIB isolate of HIV-1 in vitro, but none neutralized the MN or RF isolates at the levels of antibody tested (less than or equal to 50 micrograms/ml). Taken together these data indicate that monoclonal antibodies to the immunodominant neutralizing domain of HIV-1 gp120 display different levels of group reactivity depending on the assay system being examined.
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- P J Durda
- E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co., Inc., North Billerica, MA 01862
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Weber J, Clapham P, McKeating J, Stratton M, Robey E, Weiss R. Infection of brain cells by diverse human immunodeficiency virus isolates: role of CD4 as receptor. J Gen Virol 1989; 70 ( Pt 10):2653-60. [PMID: 2677235 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-70-10-2653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Cell lines originally derived from malignant tumours of the brain were infected by diverse human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2) isolates. By surface immunofluorescence it was shown that susceptible cells did not bear the CD4 antigen. They were also non-permissive for the formation of plaques by vesicular stomatitis virus pseudotypes and did not form syncytia with HIV-producing cells. Virus production was of low titre, and reverse transcriptase and the p24 antigen were consistently undetectable in the culture supernatants. Output virus could be detected by cocultivation with a sensitive T cell line, C8166, by the culture of supernatant medium with T cells and by detection of proviral HIV DNA after amplification. A higher multiplicity of input virus was required to establish a brain cell infection than was required for T lymphocytes or monocytes. Some HIV-susceptible brain cells contained mRNA for CD4 but infection was not blocked by anti-CD4 antibodies. Apparently HIV infection of these cells does not involve CD4 as the cellular receptor.
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- J Weber
- Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, U.K
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Weller IV, Carne CA, Sattentau Q, Smith A, Tedder RS, Clapham P, Dalgleish A, Weber J, Adler MW. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the regular sexual partners of homosexual men with AIDS and persistent generalised lymphadenopathy. J Med Virol 1987; 22:91-8. [PMID: 3108451 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1890220111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Thirty-five homosexual men who had been the regular sexual partners (for at least 6 months) of anti-HIV-positive patients with AIDS (N = 18) or PGL (N = 17) were studied. Twenty-one (60%) were seropositive, but 14 (40%) were consistently anti-HIV-negative. The duration of relationship with the index case was not statistically different in seropositive compared to seronegative partners; median 26 months (range 7-60) vs 30 months (range 7-60). However, seropositive partners had a significantly higher monthly number of other sexual partners and sexually transmitted diseases and a higher frequency of insertive and receptive anal intercourse in the preceding five years. The risk of acquiring HIV infection was significantly increased by frequent receptive anal intercourse when the frequency of insertive was controlled for but not the converse. Seronegative partners had undetectable antibodies by live and fixed cell immunofluorescence and by radioimmunoprecipitation and were repeatedly negative by competitive enzyme immunoassay. Furthermore, the sera of seronegative partners lacked HIV neutralising activity. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from seronegative partners, stained with monoclonal antibodies to seven different CD4 epitopes, revealed no differences when compared to those from heterosexual controls and no qualitative differences from cells from seropositive individuals. In addition, PBMCs from seronegative partners could be productively infected by HIV in vitro. If resistance to infection in seronegative partners exists, then it is likely that mechanisms other than a specific humoral immunity or CD4 polymorphisms are involved.
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Timar J, Nagy K, Robertson D, Clapham P, Weiss RA. Ultrastructure and immunoelectron microscopy of human T-cell leukaemia virus type I-producing lymphoid and non-lymphoid human tumour cells. J Gen Virol 1987; 68 ( Pt 4):1011-20. [PMID: 3553422 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-68-4-1011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The ultrastructure and distribution of some viral and cellular antigens was examined in lymphoid C91/PL and fibroblastic HOS/PL cells infected with human T-cell leukaemia virus type I. Tubuloreticular structures in the endoplasmic reticulum, characteristic of virus-infected or interferon-treated cells, were found in both cell types. Virions were observed particularly in the HOS/PL cells in budding and mature forms and in coated pits, coated vesicles and lysosomes, indicative of receptor-mediated endocytosis. Using immunogold indirect labelling, viral antigens, recognized by sera of infected patients and by monoclonal antibody, were detected in patches on the cell surface and in material loosely attached to the envelope of some virions. Beta 2-microglobulin was associated with virion envelopes from C91/PL and HOS/PL cells, but major histocompatibility complex class 1 (HLA) antigens were not associated with virions even when produced by HLA-positive HOS/PL cells.
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Pauli G, Hausmann E, Weiss R, Clapham P, Schneider J, Hunsmann G, Gallo RC, Daniel MD, Koch MA, Gelderblom H. LAV/HTLV-III: fine-structure analysis, localization of structural proteins, and detection of envelope antigens by patient sera. Haematol Blood Transfus 1987; 31:407-9. [PMID: 3481756 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-72624-8_87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- G Pauli
- Institut für Virologie, FU Berlin
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Tedder RS, Shanson DC, Jeffries DJ, Cheingsong-Popov R, Clapham P, Dalgleish A, Nagy K, Weiss RA. Low prevalence in the UK of HTLV-I and HTLV-II infection in subjects with AIDS, with extended lymphadenopathy, and at risk of AIDS. Lancet 1984; 2:125-8. [PMID: 6146034 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(84)91046-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Antibodies reacting selectively with human T-cell leukaemia virus type I (HTLV-I) were detected in approximately 5% patients with extended lymphadenopathy syndrome (ELAS) and in less than 1% of unselected homosexual patients and drug abusers. None of 22 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) had HTLV-I antibodies and neither did 85 haemophiliacs and 940 blood donors. 3 out of 113 drug addicts had high titres of antibodies to human T-cell leukaemia virus type II (HTLV-II). A T-cell line was derived from 1 of the seropositive ELAS patients. This line was found to be infected with, and releasing, HTLV-I. Infection by HTLV-I and HTLV-II retroviruses thus occurs more frequently in ELAS patients and drug addicts than in the UK population as a whole, but the low prevalence of these infections in ELAS and AIDS patients indicates that these two strains of lymphotropic retroviruses have no aetiological role in ELAS and AIDS.
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Nagy K, Clapham P, Weiss R, Földes I. [Specific antibodies against human T cell leukemia virus found in AIDS patients]. Orv Hetil 1984; 125:1557-60. [PMID: 6330642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Clapham P, Nagy K, Weiss RA. Pseudotypes of human T-cell leukemia virus types 1 and 2: neutralization by patients' sera. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1984; 81:2886-9. [PMID: 6326149 PMCID: PMC345177 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.9.2886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Pseudotypes of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) bearing envelope antigens of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV) types 1 and 2 were prepared by propagating VSV in cells lines productively infected with HTLV. Plaque assays of VSV (HTLV) pseudotypes were employed to determine the presence of (i) HTLV receptors on cells and (ii) neutralizing antibodies in the serum of patients with adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma (ATLL). Cell surface receptors for HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 were found on nonlymphoid cells of human and mammalian origin. Neutralizing antibodies specific to VSV(HTLV-1) were found in sera of ATLL patients in titers varying from 1:50 to 1:30,000 and did not correlate closely with antibody titers for internal viral antigens. Sera from ATLL patients in the United Kingdom (Caribbean immigrants), United States, and Japan completely neutralized VSV (HTLV-1), indicating that the HTLV isolates from these distinct geographic regions represent a single envelope serotype. Neutralization of VSV (HTLV-1) was more specific and more sensitive than assays of syncytium inhibition. No cross-neutralization was observed between bovine leukosis virus and HTLV, and only limited cross-reaction was found for envelope antigens of HTLV-1 and HTLV-2. These studies show that VSV (HTLV) pseudotypes can be readily used to screen for neutralizing antibodies in patients' sera and to distinguish HTLV envelope serotypes.
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Clapham P, Nagy K, Cheingsong-Popov R, Exley M, Weiss RA. Productive infection and cell-free transmission of human T-cell leukemia virus in a nonlymphoid cell line. Science 1983; 222:1125-7. [PMID: 6316502 DOI: 10.1126/science.6316502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV), American PL isolate, was transmitted by cocultivation and by cell-free filtrates to a nonlymphoid human osteogenic sarcoma (HOS) cell line, designated HOS/PL, but not to nine other lines bearing receptors for HTLV. HOS and HOS/PL cells are not dependent on interleukin-2 and do not express interleukin-2 receptors that are recognized by anti-Tac monoclonal antibody. HTLV released by the Japanese MT2 cell line was also transmitted to HOS cells. The infected HOS cells release substantial titers of progeny HTLV which is antigenically indistinguishable from parental virus and is able to transform T cells.
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Nagy K, Clapham P, Cheingsong-Popov R, Weiss RA. Human T-cell leukemia virus type I: induction of syncytia and inhibition by patients' sera. Int J Cancer 1983; 32:321-8. [PMID: 6604033 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910320310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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HTLV-producing T-cell lines induce cell fusion when co-cultivated with a wide variety of indicator cells, suggesting that HTLV envelope antigens interact with the membranes of many cell types. Serum antibodies from adult T-cell lymphoma-leukemia (ATL) patients inhibited the formation of syncytia, and sera from British, American and Japanese ATL patients inhibited cell fusion induced by American and Japanese HTLV isolates equally well. No serological cross-inhibition of syncytium induction was found between HTLV and bovine leukosis virus, Moloney murine leukemia virus and simian sarcoma-associated virus. A simple syncytium inhibition test in microtiter plates has been developed to provide a rapid screen for antibodies presumed to be specific to HTLV envelope glycoproteins.
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Abstract
An investigation was made of 3 serological tests (virus neutralization, complement fixation and indirect immunofluorescence), which are applicable to epidemiological studies of infections by Equid herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1). Sera from gnotobiotic foals inoculated intranasally with various strains of EHV-1 were unable in some cases to neutralize heterologous strains and these results were not consistent with the existence of clearly-defined subtypes of EHV-1, as previously proposed. The cross-reactions in complement-fixation tests paralleled those with neutralization but immunofluorescence tests were found to be both more sensitive and more broadly reactive than the other two. Complement-fixing antibodies declined more rapidly following experimental infection than did those measured by neutralization or immunofluorescence. The results are discussed in relation to the diagnosis of EHV-1 infection and the significance they may have for the epidemiology of this disease.
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