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Biernacka Z, Gregorczyk-Zboroch K, Lasocka I, Ostrowska A, Struzik J, Gieryńska M, Toka FN, Szulc-Dąbrowska L. Ectromelia Virus Affects the Formation and Spatial Organization of Adhesive Structures in Murine Dendritic Cells In Vitro. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 25:558. [PMID: 38203729 PMCID: PMC10779027 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25010558] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2023] [Revised: 12/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Ectromelia virus (ECTV) is a causative agent of mousepox. It provides a suitable model for studying the immunobiology of orthopoxviruses, including their interaction with the host cell cytoskeleton. As professional antigen-presenting cells, dendritic cells (DCs) control the pericellular environment, capture antigens, and present them to T lymphocytes after migration to secondary lymphoid organs. Migration of immature DCs is possible due to the presence of specialized adhesion structures, such as podosomes or focal adhesions (FAs). Since assembly and disassembly of adhesive structures are highly associated with DCs' immunoregulatory and migratory functions, we evaluated how ECTV infection targets podosomes and FAs' organization and formation in natural-host bone marrow-derived DCs (BMDC). We found that ECTV induces a rapid dissolution of podosomes at the early stages of infection, accompanied by the development of larger and wider FAs than in uninfected control cells. At later stages of infection, FAs were predominantly observed in long cellular extensions, formed extensively by infected cells. Dissolution of podosomes in ECTV-infected BMDCs was not associated with maturation and increased 2D cell migration in a wound healing assay; however, accelerated transwell migration of ECTV-infected cells towards supernatants derived from LPS-conditioned BMDCs was observed. We suggest that ECTV-induced changes in the spatial organization of adhesive structures in DCs may alter the adhesiveness/migration of DCs during some conditions, e.g., inflammation.
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- Zuzanna Biernacka
- Department of Preclinical Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; (Z.B.); (K.G.-Z.); (J.S.); (M.G.); (F.N.T.)
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- Department of Preclinical Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; (Z.B.); (K.G.-Z.); (J.S.); (M.G.); (F.N.T.)
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- Department of Biology of Animal Environment, Institute of Animal Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland;
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- Department of Nanobiotechnology, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland;
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- Department of Preclinical Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; (Z.B.); (K.G.-Z.); (J.S.); (M.G.); (F.N.T.)
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- Department of Preclinical Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; (Z.B.); (K.G.-Z.); (J.S.); (M.G.); (F.N.T.)
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- Department of Preclinical Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; (Z.B.); (K.G.-Z.); (J.S.); (M.G.); (F.N.T.)
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Basseterre P.O. Box 334, Saint Kitts and Nevis
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- Department of Preclinical Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; (Z.B.); (K.G.-Z.); (J.S.); (M.G.); (F.N.T.)
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Lian Y, Zhang M, Zhu Y, Wu M, Huang B, Xiao L, Shi K, Li P, Cong F, Wang H. The establishment of a recombinase polymerase amplification technique for the detection of mouse poxvirus. BMC Vet Res 2023; 19:256. [PMID: 38053140 DOI: 10.1186/s12917-023-03703-3] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Ectromelia virus (ECTV) is the causative agent of mousepox in mice. In the past century, ECTV was a serious threat to laboratory mouse colonies worldwide. Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA), which is widely used in virus detection, is an isothermal amplification method. RESULTS In this study, a probe-based RPA detection method was established for rapid and sensitive detection of ECTV.Primers were designed for the highly conserved region of the crmD gene, the main core protein of recessive poxvirus, and standard plasmids were constructed. The lowest detection limit of the ECTV RT- RPA assay was 100 copies of DNA mol-ecules per reaction. In addition, the method showed high specificity and did not cross-react with other common mouse viruses.Therefore, the practicability of the RPA method in the field was confirmed by the detection of 135 clinical samples. The real-time RPA assay was very similar to the ECTV real-time PCR assay, with 100% agreement. CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, this RPA assay offers a novel alternative for the simple, sensitive, and specific identification of ECTV, especially in low-resource settings.
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- Yuexiao Lian
- Guangdong laboratory animals monitoring instituteand Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laboratory Animals, Guangzhou, 510663, China
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- Guangdong laboratory animals monitoring instituteand Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laboratory Animals, Guangzhou, 510663, China
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- Guangdong laboratory animals monitoring instituteand Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laboratory Animals, Guangzhou, 510663, China
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- Guangdong laboratory animals monitoring instituteand Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laboratory Animals, Guangzhou, 510663, China
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- Guangdong laboratory animals monitoring instituteand Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laboratory Animals, Guangzhou, 510663, China
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- Guangdong laboratory animals monitoring instituteand Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laboratory Animals, Guangzhou, 510663, China
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Wenzhou Engineering Research Center of Pet, Department of Animal Science, Wenzhou Vocational College of Science & Technology, Wenzhou, 325006, China.
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- Guangdong laboratory animals monitoring instituteand Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laboratory Animals, Guangzhou, 510663, China.
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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Dong J, Paszkowski P, Kocincova D, Ingham RJ. Complete deletion of Ectromelia virus p28 impairs virus genome replication in a mouse strain, cell type, and multiplicity of infection-dependent manner. Virus Res 2023; 323:198968. [PMID: 36244618 PMCID: PMC10194247 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2022.198968] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Revised: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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p28 is a poxvirus-encoded E3 ubiquitin ligase that possesses an N-terminal KilA-N domain and a C-terminal RING domain. In Ectromelia virus (ECTV), disruption of the p28 RING domain severely attenuated virulence in A strain mice, which normally succumb to ECTV infection. Moreover, this mutant virus exhibited dramatically reduced genome replication and impaired factory formation in A strain mice peritoneal macrophages (PMs) infected at high multiplicity of infection (MOI) These defects were not observed in PMs isolated from C57BL/6 mice which survive ECTV infection, demonstrating that p28 functions in a context-specific manner. To further investigate p28 function, we completely deleted the p28 gene from ECTV (ECTV-Δp28). In contrast to previous findings, we found that the ECTV-Δp28 virus exhibited severely compromised virus production and genome replication in PMs isolated from A strain mice only when infected at low MOI. This defect was minimal in bone marrow-derived macrophages and two cell lines derived from A strain mice. Furthermore, this low MOI defect in virus production was also observed in PMs isolated from the susceptible BALB/c mouse strain, but not PMs isolated from C57BL/6 mice. Taken together, our data demonstrate that the requirement for ECTV p28 to establish a productive infection depends on the MOI, the cell type, as well as the mouse strain.
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- Jianing Dong
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada.
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Morgis RA, Haan K, Schrey JM, Zimmerman RM, Hersperger AR. The epidermal growth factor ortholog of ectromelia virus activates EGFR/ErbB1 and demonstrates mitogenic function in vitro. Virology 2021; 564:1-12. [PMID: 34560573 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2021.09.003] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Many poxviruses produce proteins that are related to epidermal growth factor (EGF). Prior genome sequencing of ectromelia virus revealed a gene predicted to produce a protein with homology to EGF, which we refer to as ectromelia growth factor (ECGF). ECGF is truncated relative to vaccinia growth factor (VGF) because the former lacks a transmembrane domain. We show these proteins can experience differential N-linked glycosylation. Despite these differences, both proteins maintain the six conserved cysteine residues important for the function of EGF. Since ECGF has not been characterized, our objective was to determine if it can act as a growth factor. We added ECGF to cultured cells and found that the EGF receptor becomes activated, S-phase was induced, doubling time decreased, and in vitro wound healing occurred faster compared to untreated cells. In summary, we demonstrate that ECGF can act as a mitogen in a similar manner as VGF.
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- Department of Biology, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
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Szulc-Dąbrowska L, Wojtyniak P, Struzik J, Toka FN, Winnicka A, Gieryńska M. ECTV Abolishes the Ability of GM-BM Cells to Stimulate Allogeneic CD4 T Cells in a Mouse Strain-Independent Manner. Immunol Invest 2019; 48:392-409. [PMID: 30884992 DOI: 10.1080/08820139.2019.1569676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Ectromelia virus (ECTV) is the etiological agent of mousepox, an acute and systemic disease with high mortality rates in susceptible strains of mice. Resistance and susceptibility to mousepox are triggered by the dichotomous T-helper (Th) immune response generated in infected animals, with strong protective Th1 or nonprotective Th2 profile, respectively. Th1/Th2 balance is influenced by dendritic cells (DCs), which were shown to differ in their ability to polarize naïve CD4+ T cells in different mouse strains. Therefore, we have studied the inner-strain differences in the ability of conventional DCs (cDCs), generated from resistant (C57BL/6) and susceptible (BALB/c) mice, to stimulate proliferation and activation of Th cells upon ECTV infection. We found that ECTV infection of GM-CSF-derived bone marrow (GM-BM) cells, composed of cDCs and macrophages, affected initiation of allogeneic CD4+ T cells proliferation in a mouse strain-independent manner. Moreover, infected GM-BM cells from both mouse strains failed to induce and even inhibited the production of Th1 (IFN-γ and IL-2), Th2 (IL-4 and IL-10) and Th17 (IL-17A) cytokines by allogeneic CD4+ T cells. These results indicate that in in vitro conditions ECTV compromises the ability of cDCs to initiate/polarize adaptive antiviral immune response independently of the host strain resistance/susceptibility to lethal infection.
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- Lidia Szulc-Dąbrowska
- a Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Warsaw University of Life Sciences , Warsaw , Poland
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- a Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Warsaw University of Life Sciences , Warsaw , Poland
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- a Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Warsaw University of Life Sciences , Warsaw , Poland
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- a Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Warsaw University of Life Sciences , Warsaw , Poland.,b Center for Integrative Mammalian Research , Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine , Basseterre, St. Kitts , West Indies
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- c Department of Pathology and Veterinary Diagnostics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Warsaw University of Life Sciences , Warsaw , Poland
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- a Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Warsaw University of Life Sciences , Warsaw , Poland
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Cheminay C, Körner J, Bernig C, Brückel M, Feigl M, Schletz M, Suter M, Chaplin P, Volkmann A. A single vaccination with non-replicating MVA at birth induces both immediate and long-term protective immune responses. Vaccine 2018; 36:2427-2434. [PMID: 29599088 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.03.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Newborns are considered difficult to protect against infections shortly after birth, due to their ineffective immune system that shows quantitative and qualitative differences compared to adults. However, here we show that a single vaccination of mice at birth with a replication-deficient live vaccine Modified Vaccinia Ankara [MVA] efficiently induces antigen-specific B- and T-cells that fully protect against a lethal Ectromelia virus challenge. Protection was induced within 2 weeks and using genetically modified mice we show that this protection was mainly T-cell dependent. Persisting immunological T-cell memory and neutralizing antibodies were obtained with the single vaccination. Thus, MVA administered as early as at birth induced immediate and long-term protection against an otherwise fatal disease and appears attractive as a new generation smallpox vaccine that is effective also in children. Moreover, it may have the potential to serve as platform for childhood vaccines as indicated by measles specific T- and B-cell responses induced in newborn mice vaccinated with recombinant MVA expressing measles antigens.
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- Cédric Cheminay
- Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Fraunhoferstrasse 13, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Fraunhoferstrasse 13, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Fraunhoferstrasse 13, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Fraunhoferstrasse 13, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Fraunhoferstrasse 13, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Fraunhoferstrasse 13, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- University of Zürich, Dekanat Vetsuisse-Fakultät Immunology, Winterthurerstrasse 204, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Fraunhoferstrasse 13, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Fraunhoferstrasse 13, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany.
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Frey TR, Forsyth KS, Sheehan MM, De Haven BC, Pevarnik JG, Hand ES, Pizzorno MC, Eisenlohr LC, Hersperger AR. Ectromelia virus lacking the E3L ortholog is replication-defective and nonpathogenic but does induce protective immunity in a mouse strain susceptible to lethal mousepox. Virology 2018; 518:335-48. [PMID: 29602068 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2018.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Revised: 03/18/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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All known orthopoxviruses, including ectromelia virus (ECTV), contain a gene in the E3L family. The protein product of this gene, E3, is a double-stranded RNA-binding protein. It can impact host range and is used by orthopoxviruses to combat cellular defense pathways, such as PKR and RNase L. In this work, we constructed an ECTV mutant with a targeted disruption of the E3L open reading frame (ECTVΔE3L). Infection with this virus resulted in an abortive replication cycle in all cell lines tested. We detected limited transcription of late genes but no significant translation of these mRNAs. Notably, the replication defects of ECTVΔE3L were rescued in human and mouse cells lacking PKR. ECTVΔE3L was nonpathogenic in BALB/c mice, a strain susceptible to lethal mousepox disease. However, infection with ECTVΔE3L induced protective immunity upon subsequent challenge with wild-type virus. In summary, E3L is an essential gene for ECTV.
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Cheng W, He X, Jia H, Chen G, Wang C, Zhang J, Jing Z. Development of a SYBR Green I real-time PCR for detection and quantitation of orthopoxvirus by using Ectromelia virus. Mol Cell Probes 2017; 38:45-50. [PMID: 29224776 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2017.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2017] [Revised: 12/02/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ectromelia virus (ECTV) is the causative agent of mousepox, which has devastating effects in laboratory-mouse colonies and causes economic loss in biomedical research. More importantly, ECTV has been extensively used as an excellent model for studies of the pathogenesis and immunobiology of human smallpox. A rapid and sensitive SYBR Green I-based real-time PCR assay was developed and used for the detection and quantitation of orthopoxvirus by using ECTV in this study. Primers targeted to the highly conserved region of major core protein P4b gene of orthopoxvirus were designed and the standard plasmid was constructed. This assay was able to detect a minimum of 10 copies of standard DNA and 5 TCID50 units of ECTV. In addition, no cross-reactions were observed with two DNA viruses, such as herpes simplex virus and swine pseudorabies virus, and one RNA virus, vesicular stomatitis virus. Furthermore, intra- and inter-assay variability data showed that this method had a highly reproducibility and reliability. Moreover, the current assay was faster and had a higher sensitivity for detection of ECTV genomic DNA in cell cultured and clinical test samples. Therefore, the high sensitivity and reproducibility of this SYBR Green real-time PCR approach is a more effective method than the conventional PCR for ECTV diagnosis and quantitation.
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- Wenyu Cheng
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Agriculture Ministry, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730046, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Agriculture Ministry, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730046, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Agriculture Ministry, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730046, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Agriculture Ministry, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730046, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Agriculture Ministry, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730046, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Agriculture Ministry, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730046, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Agriculture Ministry, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730046, PR China.
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Frey TR, Lehmann MH, Ryan CM, Pizzorno MC, Sutter G, Hersperger AR. Ectromelia virus accumulates less double-stranded RNA compared to vaccinia virus in BS-C-1 cells. Virology 2017; 509:98-111. [PMID: 28628829 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2017.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Most orthopoxviruses, including vaccinia virus (VACV), contain genes in the E3L and K3L families. The protein products of these genes have been shown to combat PKR, a host defense pathway. Interestingly, ectromelia virus (ECTV) contains an E3L ortholog but does not possess an intact K3L gene. Here, we gained insight into how ECTV can still efficiently evade PKR despite lacking K3L. Relative to VACV, we found that ECTV-infected BS-C-1 cells accumulated considerably less double-stranded (ds) RNA, which was due to lower mRNA levels and less transcriptional read-through of some genes by ECTV. The abundance of dsRNA in VACV-infected cells, detected using a monoclonal antibody, was able to activate the RNase L pathway at late time points post-infection. Historically, the study of transcription by orthopoxviruses has largely focused on VACV as a model. Our data suggest that there could be more to learn by studying other members of this genus.
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Achdout H, Lustig S, Israely T, Erez N, Politi B, Tamir H, Israeli O, Waner T, Melamed S, Paran N. Induction, treatment and prevention of eczema vaccinatum in atopic dermatitis mouse models. Vaccine 2017. [PMID: 28625523 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Eczema vaccinatum is a severe and occasionally lethal complication of smallpox vaccine, characterized by systemic viral dissemination, distant from the initial inoculation site of the vaccine. A major risk factor for eczema vaccinatum is a background of atopic dermatitis, a chronic, common allergic, relapsing disorder, manifested by dry and inflamed skin, itchy rash, Th2 biased immune response and hypersensitivity to various antigens. Unlike the severe manifestations of eczema vaccinatum in humans, current models present only mild symptoms that limits examination of potential therapeutics for eczema vaccinatum. The atopic dermatitis and eczema vaccinatum models we present here, are the first to simulate the severity of the diseases in humans. Indeed, dermatitic mice display persistent severe dermatitis, characterized by dry and inflamed skin with barrier dysfunction, epidermal hyperplasia and significant elevation of serum IgE. By exposing atopic dermatitis mice to ectromelia virus, we generated eczema vaccinatum that mimic the human disease better than known eczema vaccinatum models. Similarly to humans, eczematous mice displayed enlarged and disseminated skin lesions, which correlated with elevated viral load. Cidofovir and antiviral antibodies conferred protection even when treatment started at a late eczematous stage. Moreover, we are the first to demonstrate that despite a severe background of atopic dermatitis, modified vaccinia Ankara virus (MVA) vaccination protects against lethal ectromelia virus exposure. We finally show that protection by MVA vaccination is dependent on CD4+ T cells and is associated with significant activation of CD8+ cytotoxic T cells and induction of humoral immunity.
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- Hagit Achdout
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Ness-Ziona, Israel.
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Orlowski P, Pardecka M, Cymerys J, Krzyzowska M. Dendritic cells during mousepox: The role of delayed apoptosis in the pathogenesis of infection. Microb Pathog 2017; 109:99-109. [PMID: 28554653 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2017.05.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Revised: 05/14/2017] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are effector cells linking the innate immune system with the adaptive immune response. Many viruses eliminate DCs to prevent host response, induce immunosuppression and to maintain chronic infection. In this study, we examined apoptotic response of dendritic cells during in vitro and in vivo infection with ectromelia virus (ECTV), the causative agent of mousepox. ECTV-infected bone marrow dendritic cells (BMDCs) from BALB/c mice underwent apoptosis through mitochondrial pathway at 48 h post infection, up-regulated FasL and decreased expression of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 and pro-apoptotic Fas. Similar pattern of Bcl-2, Fas and FasL expression was observed for DCs early during in vivo infection of BALB/c mice. Both BMDCs and DCs from BALB/c mice showed no maturation upon ECTV infection. We conclude that ECTV-infected DCs from BALB/c mouse strain help the virus to spread and to maintain infection.
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- Piotr Orlowski
- Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Kozielska 4, 01-163 Warsaw, Poland.
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- Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ciszewskiego 8, 02-786, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ciszewskiego 8, 02-786, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Melo-Silva CR, Tscharke DC, Lobigs M, Koskinen A, Müllbacher A, Regner M. Ectromelia virus N1L is essential for virulence but not dissemination in a classical model of mousepox. Virus Res 2017; 228:61-65. [PMID: 27865865 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2016.11.017] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Revised: 11/08/2016] [Accepted: 11/10/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
Mousepox is caused by the orthopoxvirus ectromelia virus (ECTV), and is thought to be transmitted via skin abrasions. We studied the ECTV virulence factor N1 following subcutaneous infection of mousepox-susceptible BALB/c mice. In this model, ECTV lacking N1L gene was attenuated more than 1000-fold compared with wild-type virus and replication was profoundly reduced as early as four days after infection. However, in contrast to data from an intranasal model, N1 protein was not required for virus dissemination. Further, neither T cell nor cytokine responses were enhanced in the absence of N1. Together with the early timing of reduced virus titres, this suggests that in a cutaneous model, N1 exerts its function at the level of infected cells or in the inhibition of the very earliest effectors of innate immunity.
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- Carolina R Melo-Silva
- Department of Emerging Pathogens and Vaccines, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia.
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- Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia
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- Department of Emerging Pathogens and Vaccines, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia
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- Department of Emerging Pathogens and Vaccines, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia
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- Department of Emerging Pathogens and Vaccines, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia; Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia
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- Department of Emerging Pathogens and Vaccines, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia
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Reynolds SE, Earl PL, Minai M, Moore I, Moss B. A homolog of the variola virus B22 membrane protein contributes to ectromelia virus pathogenicity in the mouse footpad model. Virology 2017; 501:107-14. [PMID: 27898336 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2016] [Revised: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Most poxviruses encode a homolog of a ~200,000-kDa membrane protein originally identified in variola virus. We investigated the importance of the ectromelia virus (ECTV) homolog C15 in a natural infection model. In cultured mouse cells, the replication of a mutant virus with stop codons near the N-terminus (ECTV-C15Stop) was indistinguishable from a control virus (ECTV-C15Rev). However, for a range of doses injected into the footpads of BALB/c mice there was less mortality with the mutant. Similar virus loads were present at the site of infection with mutant or control virus whereas there was less ECTV-C15Stop in popliteal and inguinal lymph nodes, spleen and liver indicating decreased virus spread and replication. The latter results were supported by immunohistochemical analyses. Decreased spread was evidently due to immune modulatory activity of C15, rather than to an intrinsic viral function, as the survival of infected mice depended on CD4+ and CD8+ T cells.
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Wang T, Zheng Z, Zhang XE, Wang H. Quantum dot-fluorescence in situ hybridisation for Ectromelia virus detection based on biotin-streptavidin interactions. Talanta 2016; 158:179-184. [PMID: 27343592 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2016.04.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 01/06/2016] [Revised: 04/11/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Ectromelia virus (ECTV) is an pathogen that can lead to a lethal, acute toxic disease known as mousepox in mice. Prevention and control of ECTV infection requires the establishment of a rapid and sensitive diagnostic system for detecting the virus. In the present study, we developed a method of quantum-dot-fluorescence based in situ hybridisation for detecting ECTV genome DNA. Using biotin-dUTP to replace dTTP, biotin was incorporated into a DNA probe during polymerase chain reaction. High sensitivity and specificity of ECTV DNA detection were displayed by fluorescent quantum dots based on biotin-streptavidin interactions. ECTV DNA was then detected by streptavidin-conjugated quantum dots that bound the biotin-labelled probe. Results indicated that the established method can visualise ECTV genomic DNA in both infected cells and mouse tissues. To our knowledge, this is the first study reporting quantum-dot-fluorescence based in situ hybridisation for the detection of viral nucleic acids, providing a reference for the identification and detection of other viruses.
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- Ting Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
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Ectromelia virus is a mouse-specific orthopoxvirus that, following footpad infection or natural transmission, causes mousepox in most strains of mice, while a few strains, such as C57BL/6, are resistant to the disease but not to the infection. Mousepox is an acute, systemic, highly lethal disease of remarkable semblance to smallpox, caused by the human-specific variola virus. Starting in 1929 with its discovery by Marchal, work with ECTV has provided essential information for our current understanding on how viruses spread lympho-hematogenously, the genetic control of antiviral resistance, the role of different components of the innate and adaptive immune system in the control of primary and secondary infections with acute viruses, and how the mechanisms of immune evasion deployed by the virus affect virulence in vivo. Here, I review the literature on the pathogenesis and immunobiology of ECTV infection in vivo.
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- Luis J Sigal
- Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Struzik J, Szulc-Dąbrowska L, Winnicka A, Niemiałtowski M. Strategies of NF-κB signaling modulation by ectromelia virus in BALB/3T3 murine fibroblasts. Microb Pathog 2015; 87:59-68. [PMID: 26232502 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2015.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Revised: 07/25/2015] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) is a pleiotropic transcription factor that regulates the expression of immune response genes. NF-κB signaling can be disrupted by pathogens that prevent host immune response. In this work, we examined the influence of ectromelia (mousepox) virus (ECTV) on NF-κB signaling in murine BALB/3T3 fibroblasts. Activation of NF-κB via tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor 1 (TNFR1) in these cells induces proinflammatory cytokine secretion. We show that ECTV does not recruit NF-κB to viral factories or induce NF-κB nuclear translocation in BALB/3T3 cells. Additionally, ECTV counteracts TNF-α-induced p65 NF-κB nuclear translocation during the course of infection. Inhibition of TNF-α-induced p65 nuclear translocation was also observed in neighboring cells that underwent fusion with ECTV-infected cells. ECTV inhibits the key step of NF-κB activation, i.e. Ser32 phosphorylation and degradation of inhibitor κBα (IκBα) induced by TNF-α. We also observed that ECTV prevents TNF-α-induced Ser536 of p65 phosphorylation in BALB/3T3 cells. Studying TNFR1 signaling provides information about regulation of inflammatory response and cell survival. Unraveling poxviral immunomodulatory strategies may be helpful in drug target identification as well as in vaccine development.
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Mehta N, Taylor J, Quilty D, Barry M. Ectromelia virus encodes an anti-apoptotic protein that regulates cell death. Virology 2014; 475:74-87. [PMID: 25462348 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2014] [Revised: 10/21/2014] [Accepted: 10/23/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Apoptosis serves as a powerful defense against damaged or pathogen-infected cells. Since apoptosis is an effective defense against viral infection, many viruses including poxviruses, encode proteins to prevent or delay apoptosis. Here we show that ectromelia virus, the causative agent of mousepox encodes an anti-apoptotic protein EVM025. Here we demonstrate that expression of functional EVM025 is crucial to prevent apoptosis triggered by virus infection and staurosporine. We demonstrate that the expression of EVM025 prevents the conformational activation of the pro-apoptotic proteins Bak and Bax, allowing the maintenance of mitochondrial membrane integrity upon infection with ECTV. Additionally, EVM025 interacted with intracellular Bak. We were able to demonstrate that EVM025 ability to inhibit Bax activation is a function of its ability to inhibit the activity of an upstream BH3 only protein Bim. Collectively, our data indicates that EVM025 inhibits apoptosis by sequestering Bak and inhibiting the activity of Bak and Bax.
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- Ninad Mehta
- Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Mavian C, López-Bueno A, Bryant NA, Seeger K, Quail MA, Harris D, Barrell B, Alcami A. The genome sequence of ectromelia virus Naval and Cornell isolates from outbreaks in North America. Virology 2014; 462-463:218-26. [PMID: 24999046 PMCID: PMC4139192 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 03/24/2014] [Revised: 04/11/2014] [Accepted: 06/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Ectromelia virus (ECTV) is the causative agent of mousepox, a disease of laboratory mouse colonies and an excellent model for human smallpox. We report the genome sequence of two isolates from outbreaks in laboratory mouse colonies in the USA in 1995 and 1999: ECTV-Naval and ECTV-Cornell, respectively. The genome of ECTV-Naval and ECTV-Cornell was sequenced by the 454-Roche technology. The ECTV-Naval genome was also sequenced by the Sanger and Illumina technologies in order to evaluate these technologies for poxvirus genome sequencing. Genomic comparisons revealed that ECTV-Naval and ECTV-Cornell correspond to the same virus isolated from independent outbreaks. Both ECTV-Naval and ECTV-Cornell are extremely virulent in susceptible BALB/c mice, similar to ECTV-Moscow. This is consistent with the ECTV-Naval genome sharing 98.2% DNA sequence identity with that of ECTV-Moscow, and indicates that the genetic differences with ECTV-Moscow do not affect the virulence of ECTV-Naval in the mousepox model of footpad infection. We describe the genome sequence of two highly virulent ectromelia virus isolates. The outbreak of ectromelia virus in USA was caused by Chinese viral isolates. We describe a clade of ectromelia virus isolates from China. We compare three different sequencing technologies to sequence large DNA viruses.
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- Carla Mavian
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Nicolas Cabrera 1, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Nicolas Cabrera 1, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Nicolas Cabrera 1, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain; Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Burles K, Irwin CR, Burton RL, Schriewer J, Evans DH, Buller RM, Barry M. Initial characterization of vaccinia virus B4 suggests a role in virus spread. Virology 2014; 456-457:108-20. [PMID: 24889230 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Revised: 03/04/2014] [Accepted: 03/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Currently, little is known about the ankyrin/F-box protein B4. Here, we report that B4R-null viruses exhibited reduced plaque size in tissue culture, and decreased ability to spread, as assessed by multiple-step growth analysis. Electron microscopy indicated that B4R-null viruses still formed mature and extracellular virions; however, there was a slight decrease of virions released into the media following deletion of B4R. Deletion of B4R did not affect the ability of the virus to rearrange actin; however, VACV811, a large vaccinia virus deletion mutant missing 55 open reading frames, had decreased ability to produce actin tails. Using ectromelia virus, a natural mouse pathogen, we demonstrated that virus devoid of EVM154, the B4R homolog, showed decreased spread to organs and was attenuated during infection. This initial characterization suggests that B4 may play a role in virus spread, and that other unidentified mediators of actin tail formation may exist in vaccinia virus.
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