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Morales-Molina A, Gambera S, Leo A, García-Castro J. Combination immunotherapy using G-CSF and oncolytic virotherapy reduces tumor growth in osteosarcoma. J Immunother Cancer 2021; 9:e001703. [PMID: 33737338 PMCID: PMC7978281 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2020-001703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant solid tumor that affects bones, however, survival rates of patients with relapsed osteosarcoma have not improved in the last 30 years. Oncolytic virotherapy, which uses viruses designed to selectively replicate in cancer cells, has emerged as a promising treatment for solid tumors. Our group uses mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to transport oncolytic adenoviruses (OAds) to the tumor site, a therapeutic strategy called Celyvir. This treatment has been already applied in human patients, canine patients and different mouse models. In parallel, previous results have probed that administration of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) increased immune infiltration in tumors. We then hypothesized that the mobilization of immune cells by G-CSF may increase the antitumor efficacy of Celyvir treatment by increasing the immune infiltration into the tumors. METHODS In this study, we use a murine version of Celyvir consisting in murine MSCs carrying the murine OAd dlE102-here called OAd-MSCs-in an immunocompetent model of osteosarcoma. We tested the antitumoral efficacy of the combination of OAd-MSCs plus G-CSF. RESULTS Our results show that treatment with OAd-MSCs or the union of OAd-MSCs with G-CSF (Combination) significantly reduced tumor growth of osteosarcoma in vivo. Moreover, treated tumors presented higher tumor infiltration of immune cells-especially tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes-and reduced T cell exhaustion, which seems to be enhanced in tumors treated with the Combination. The comparison of our results to those obtained from a cohort of pediatric osteosarcoma patients showed that the virotherapy induces immunological changes similar to those observed in patients with good prognosis. CONCLUSIONS The results open the possibility of using cellular virotherapy for the treatment of bone cancers. Indeed, its combination with G-CSF may be considered for the improvement of the therapy.
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- Cellular Biotechnology Unit, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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Cellular Virotherapy Increases Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) and Decreases their PD-1 + Subsets in Mouse Immunocompetent Models. Cancers (Basel) 2020; 12:cancers12071920. [PMID: 32708639 PMCID: PMC7409201 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12071920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Oncolytic virotherapy uses viruses designed to selectively replicate in cancer cells. An alternative to intratumoral administration is to use mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to transport the oncolytic viruses to the tumor site. Following this strategy, our group has already applied this treatment to children and adults in a human clinical trial and a veterinary trial, with good clinical responses and excellent safety profiles. However, the development of immunocompetent cancer mouse models is still necessary for the study and improvement of oncolytic viroimmunotherapies. Here we have studied the antitumor efficacy, immune response, and mechanism of action of a complete murine version of our cellular virotherapy in mouse models of renal adenocarcinoma and melanoma. We used mouse MSCs infected with the mouse oncolytic adenovirus dlE102 (OAd-MSCs). In both models, treatment with OAd-MSCs significantly reduced tumor volumes by 50% and induced a pro-inflammatory tumor microenvironment. Furthermore, treated mice harboring renal adenocarcinoma and melanoma tumors presented increased infiltration of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), natural killer cells, and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Treated mice also presented lower percentage of TILs expressing programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)-the major regulator of T cell exhaustion. In conclusion, treatment with OAd-MSCs significantly reduced tumor volume and induced changes in tumor-infiltrating populations of melanoma and renal cancer.
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Franco-Luzón L, González-Murillo Á, Alcántara-Sánchez C, García-García L, Tabasi M, Huertas AL, Chesler L, Ramírez M. Systemic oncolytic adenovirus delivered in mesenchymal carrier cells modulate tumor infiltrating immune cells and tumor microenvironment in mice with neuroblastoma. Oncotarget 2020; 11:347-361. [PMID: 32064039 PMCID: PMC6996901 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.27401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Celyvir (autologous mesenchymal cells -MSCs- that carry an oncolytic adenovirus) is a new therapeutic strategy for metastatic tumors developed by our research group over the last decade. There are limitations for studying the immune effects of human oncolytic adenoviruses in murine models since these viruses do not replicate naturally in these animals. The use of xenografts in immunodeficient mice prevent assessing important clinical aspects of this therapy such as the antiadenoviral immune response or the possible intratumoral immune changes, both of tumor infiltrating leukocytes and of the microenvironment. In our strategy, the presence of MSCs in the medicinal product adds an extra level of complexity. We present here a murine model that overcomes many of these limitations. We found that carrier cells outcompeted intravenous administration of naked particles in delivering the oncolytic virus into the tumor masses. The protection that MSCs could provide to the oncolytic adenovirus did not preclude the development of an antiadenoviral immune response. However, the presence of circulating antiadenoviral antibodies did not prevent changes detected at the tumor masses: increased infiltration and changes in the quality of immune cells per unit of tumor volume, and a less protumoral and more inflammatory profile of the tumor microenvironment. We believe that the model described here will enable the study of crucial events related to the immune responses affecting both the medicinal product and the tumor.
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- Unidad de Terapias Avanzadas, Oncología, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
- Fundación de Investigación Biomédica, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundación de Investigación Biomédica, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
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- Fundación de Investigación Biomédica, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Cirugía, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
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- Paediatric Solid Tumour Biology and Therapeutics Team, Division of Clinical Studies and Cancer Therapeutics Division, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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- Unidad de Terapias Avanzadas, Oncología, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
- Fundación de Investigación Biomédica, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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Hemmi S, Spindler KR. Murine adenoviruses: tools for studying adenovirus pathogenesis in a natural host. FEBS Lett 2019; 593:3649-3659. [PMID: 31777948 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Small laboratory animals are powerful models for investigating in vivo viral pathogenesis of a number of viruses. For adenoviruses (AdVs), however, species-specificity poses limitations to studying human adenoviruses (HAdVs) in mice and other small laboratory animals. Thus, this review covers work on naturally occurring mouse AdVs, primarily mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAdV-1), a member of the species Murine mastadenovirus A. Molecular genetics, virus life cycle, cell and tissue tropism, interactions with the host immune response, persistence, and host genetics of susceptibility are described. A brief discussion of MAdV-2 (member of species Murine mastadenovirus B) and MAdV-3 (member of species Murine mastadenovirus C) is included. We report the use of MAdVs in the development of vectors and vaccines.
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- Silvio Hemmi
- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Oral Vaccination with Replication-Competent Adenovirus in Mice Reveals Dissemination of the Viral Vaccine beyond the Gastrointestinal Tract. J Virol 2019; 93:JVI.00237-19. [PMID: 30996103 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00237-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Since the 1970s, replication-competent human adenoviruses 4 and 7 have been used as oral vaccines to protect U.S. soldiers against the severe respiratory diseases caused by these viruses. These vaccines are thought to establish a digestive tract infection conferring protection against respiratory challenge through antibodies. The success of these vaccines makes replication-competent adenoviruses attractive candidates for use as oral vaccine vectors. However, the inability of human adenoviruses to replicate efficiently in laboratory animals has hampered the study of such vectors. Here, we used mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) in mice to study oral replication-competent adenovirus-based vaccines. We show that MAV-1 oral administration provides protection that recapitulates the protection against homologous respiratory challenge observed with adenovirus 4 and 7 vaccines. Moreover, live oral MAV-1 vaccine better protected against a respiratory challenge than inactivated vaccines. This protection was linked not only with the presence of MAV-1-specific antibodies but also with a better recruitment of effector CD8 T cells. However, unexpectedly, we found that such oral replication-competent vaccine systemically spread all over the body. Our results therefore support the use of MAV-1 to study replication-competent oral adenovirus-based vaccines but also highlight the fact that those vaccines can disseminate widely in the body.IMPORTANCE Replication-competent adenoviruses appear to be promising vectors for the development of oral vaccines in humans. However, the study and development of these vaccines suffer from the lack of any reliable animal model. In this study, mouse adenovirus type 1 was used to develop a small-animal model for oral replication-competent adenovirus vaccines. While this model reproduced in mice what is observed with human adenovirus oral vaccines, it also highlighted that oral immunization with such a replication-competent vaccine is associated with the systemic spread of the virus. This study is therefore of major importance for the future development of such vaccine platforms and their use in large human populations.
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Enhanced Replication of Mouse Adenovirus Type 1 following Virus-Induced Degradation of Protein Kinase R (PKR). mBio 2019; 10:mBio.00668-19. [PMID: 31015330 PMCID: PMC6479006 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00668-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The first line of defense in cells during viral infection is the innate immune system, which is activated by different viral products. PKR is a part of this innate immune system and is induced by interferon and activated by dsRNA produced by DNA and RNA viruses. PKR is such an important part of the antiviral response that many viral families have gene products to counteract its activation or the resulting effects of its activity. Although a few RNA viruses degrade PKR, this method of counteracting PKR has not been reported for any DNA viruses. MAV-1 does not encode virus-associated RNAs, a human adenoviral defense against PKR activation. Instead, MAV-1 degrades PKR, and it is the first DNA virus reported to do so. The innate immune evasion by PKR degradation is a previously unidentified way for a DNA virus to circumvent the host antiviral response. Protein kinase R (PKR) plays a major role in activating host immunity during infection by sensing double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) produced by viruses. Once activated by dsRNA, PKR phosphorylates the translation factor eukaryotic initiation factor 2α (eIF2α), halting cellular translation. Many viruses have methods of inhibiting PKR activation or its downstream effects, circumventing protein synthesis shutdown. These include sequestering dsRNA or producing proteins that bind to and inhibit PKR activation. Here we describe our finding that in multiple cell types, PKR was depleted during mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) infection. MAV-1 did not appear to be targeting PKR at the transcriptional or translational level, because total PKR mRNA levels and levels of PKR mRNA bound to polysomes were unchanged or increased during MAV-1 infection. However, inhibiting the proteasome reduced the PKR depletion seen in MAV-1-infected cells, whereas inhibiting the lysosome had no effect. This suggests that proteasomal degradation alone is responsible for PKR degradation during MAV-1 infection. Time course experiments indicated that the degradation occurs early after infection. Infecting cells with UV-inactivated virus prevented PKR degradation, whereas inhibiting viral DNA replication did not. Together, these results suggest that an early viral gene is responsible. Degradation of PKR is a rare mechanism to oppose PKR activity, and it has been described in only six RNA viruses. To our knowledge, this is the first example of a DNA virus counteracting PKR by degrading it.
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Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity in Infections by an Encephalitic Virus, Mouse Adenovirus Type 1. J Virol 2017; 91:JVI.01412-16. [PMID: 28053109 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01412-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2016] [Accepted: 12/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) infection causes encephalitis in susceptible strains of mice and alters the permeability of infected brains to small molecules, which indicates disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Under pathological conditions, matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) can disrupt the BBB through their proteolytic activity on basement membrane and tight junction proteins. We examined whether MAV-1 infection alters MMP activity in vivo and in vitro Infected MAV-1-susceptible SJL mice had higher MMP2 and MMP9 activity in brains, measured by gelatin zymography, than mock-infected mice. Infected MAV-1-resistant BALB/c mice had MMP activity levels equivalent to those in mock infection. Primary SJL mouse brain endothelial cells (a target of MAV-1 in vivo) infected ex vivo with MAV-1 had no difference in activities of secreted MMP2 and MMP9 from mock cells. We show for the first time that astrocytes and microglia are also infected in vivo by MAV-1. Infected mixed primary cultures of astrocytes and microglia had higher levels of MMP2 and MMP9 activity than mock-infected cells. These results indicate that increased MMP activity in the brains of MAV-1-infected susceptible mice may be due to MMP activity produced by endothelial cells, astrocytes, and microglia, which in turn may contribute to BBB disruption and encephalitis in susceptible mice.IMPORTANCE RNA and DNA viruses can cause encephalitis; in some cases, this is accompanied by MMP-mediated disruption of the BBB. Activated MMPs degrade extracellular matrix and cleave tight-junction proteins and cytokines, modulating their functions. MAV-1 infection of susceptible mice is a tractable small-animal model for encephalitis, and the virus causes disruption of the BBB. We showed that MAV-1 infection increases enzymatic activity of two key MMPs known to be secreted and activated in neuroinflammation, MMP2 and MMP9, in brains of susceptible mice. MAV-1 infects endothelial cells, astrocytes, and microglia, cell types in the neurovascular unit that can secrete MMPs. Ex vivo MAV-1 infection of these cell types caused higher MMP activity than mock infection, suggesting that they may contribute to the higher MMP activity seen in vivo To our knowledge, this provides the first evidence of an encephalitic DNA virus in its natural host causing increased MMP activity in brains.
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McCarthy MK, Malitz DH, Molloy CT, Procario MC, Greiner KE, Zhang L, Wang P, Day SM, Powell SR, Weinberg JB. Interferon-dependent immunoproteasome activity during mouse adenovirus type 1 infection. Virology 2016; 498:57-68. [PMID: 27560373 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Revised: 08/04/2016] [Accepted: 08/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The immunoproteasome is an inducible host mechanism that aids in the clearance of damaged proteins. The immunoproteasome also influences immune function by enhancing peptide presentation by MHC class I and promotes inflammation via IκB degradation and activation of NF-κB. We used mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) to characterize the role of the immunoproteasome in adenovirus pathogenesis. Following intranasal infection of mice, immunoproteasome activity in the heart and lung was significantly increased in an IFN-γ-dependent manner. Absence of the β5i immunoproteasome subunit and pharmacological inhibition of β5i activity had minimal effects on viral replication, virus-induced cellular inflammation, or induction of cytokine expression. Likewise, the establishment of protective immunity following primary infection was not significantly altered by β5i deficiency. Thus, although immunoproteasome activity is robustly induced during acute infection with MAV-1, our data suggest that other mechanisms are capable of compensating for immunoproteasome activity to maintain antiviral immunity and appropriate inflammatory responses.
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- Mary K McCarthy
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Mouse Adenovirus Type 1 Early Region 1A Effects on the Blood-Brain Barrier. mSphere 2016; 1:mSphere00079-16. [PMID: 27303733 PMCID: PMC4894691 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00079-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2016] [Accepted: 03/30/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Encephalitis can be caused by viruses, and it is potentially life-threatening because of the vital nature of the brain and the lack of treatment options. MAV-1 produces viral encephalitis in its natural host, providing a model for investigating factors involved in development of encephalitis. MAV-1 infection disrupts the BBB and increases activity of matrix metalloproteinases in brains of infected mice. We investigated whether the major transcriptional regulator of adenoviruses, E1A protein, is responsible for any of the specific phenotypes that result from MAV-1 infection. For some of the functions assayed, an E1A mutant virus behaved like wild-type virus. However, expression of mRNA for one matrix metalloproteinase was higher in the virus lacking E1A protein production. This highlights the complex nature of encephalitis and suggests that E1A may have transcriptional effects on host genes important for the development of encephalitis. Mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) infects endothelial cells and disrupts the blood-brain barrier (BBB), causing encephalitis in inbred and outbred mice. Using a virus mutant that does not produce the early region 1A protein E1A, we investigated whether the activity of this known viral transcriptional regulator is needed for BBB disruption and other phenotypes associated with encephalitis. The wild-type (wt) virus and E1A mutant virus caused similar levels of permeability of sodium fluorescein in brains of infected mice. In an in vitro assay of BBB integrity, wt and mutant virus caused similar decreases in transendothelial electrical resistance in primary mouse brain endothelial cell monolayers. These results indicate that E1A protein does not contribute to disruption of BBB integrity in animals or cultured cells. Both wt and E1A mutant virus infection of mice led to similar increases in the activity of two matrix metalloproteinases known to correlate with BBB disruption, MMP2 and MMP9, while causing no increase in the steady-state expression of MMP2 or MMP9 mRNA. In contrast, the amount of MMP3 transcripts increased upon infection by both viruses and to a higher level in infections by the mutant virus lacking E1A protein production. There was no difference in the levels of steady-state expression of mRNA for tight junction proteins among mock virus, wt virus, and mutant virus infections. Thus, the MAV-1 E1A protein does not measurably affect BBB integrity in the parameters assayed, although it reduces the amount of MMP3 mRNA steady-state expression induced in brains upon infection. IMPORTANCE Encephalitis can be caused by viruses, and it is potentially life-threatening because of the vital nature of the brain and the lack of treatment options. MAV-1 produces viral encephalitis in its natural host, providing a model for investigating factors involved in development of encephalitis. MAV-1 infection disrupts the BBB and increases activity of matrix metalloproteinases in brains of infected mice. We investigated whether the major transcriptional regulator of adenoviruses, E1A protein, is responsible for any of the specific phenotypes that result from MAV-1 infection. For some of the functions assayed, an E1A mutant virus behaved like wild-type virus. However, expression of mRNA for one matrix metalloproteinase was higher in the virus lacking E1A protein production. This highlights the complex nature of encephalitis and suggests that E1A may have transcriptional effects on host genes important for the development of encephalitis.
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Novel immunocompetent murine tumor model for evaluation of conditionally replication-competent (oncolytic) murine adenoviral vectors. J Virol 2009; 83:3450-62. [PMID: 19193803 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02561-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Oncolytic adenoviral vectors that express immunostimulatory transgenes are currently being evaluated in clinic. Preclinical testing of these vectors has thus far been limited to immunodeficient xenograft tumor models since human adenoviruses do not replicate effectively in murine tumor cells. The effect of the immunostimulatory transgene on overall virus potency can therefore not be readily assessed in these models. Here, a model is described that allows the effective testing of mouse armed oncolytic adenovirus (MAV) vectors in immunocompetent syngeneic tumor models. These studies demonstrate that the MAV vectors have a high level of cytotoxicity in a wide range of murine tumor cells. The murine oncolytic viruses were successfully armed with murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (mGM-CSF) by a novel method which resulted in vectors with a high level of tumor-specific transgene expression. The mGM-CSF-armed MAV vectors showed an improved level of antitumor potency and induced a systemic antitumor immune response that was greater than that induced by unarmed parental vectors in immunocompetent syngeneic tumor models. Thus, the oncolytic MAV-1 system described here provides a murine homolog model for the testing of murine armed oncolytic adenovirus vectors in immunocompetent animals. The model allows evaluation of the impact of virus replication and the host immune response on overall virus potency and enables the generation of translational data that will be important for guiding the clinical development of these viruses.
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Weinberg JB, Jensen DR, Gralinski LE, Lake AR, Stempfle GS, Spindler KR. Contributions of E1A to mouse adenovirus type 1 pathogenesis following intranasal inoculation. Virology 2006; 357:54-67. [PMID: 16962154 PMCID: PMC1764815 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2006] [Revised: 05/18/2006] [Accepted: 08/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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We investigated the role of mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) early region 1A (E1A) protein in adenovirus respiratory infection. Intranasal (i.n.) inoculation of mice with wild type (wt) virus induced chemokine and cellular inflammatory responses in the lung. We observed similar responses in mice infected with an E1A-null mutant virus at the same dose, although the magnitude of these responses was lower. Levels of viral hexon gene expression were lower in the lung following infection with E1A-null virus than with wt virus. When input doses were adjusted so that equivalent viral loads were present following infection with varying doses of wt and E1A-null virus, we observed equivalent chemokine upregulation in the lung. Dissemination to the brain occurred following i.n. inoculation with equal doses of wt or E1A-null virus, but viral gene expression and viral loads were lower and the magnitude of chemokine responses was lower in brains of E1A-null virus-infected mice. CD4 and CD8 T cells and neutrophils were recruited to the brains of mice infected with either wt or E1A-null virus. Together, these data suggest that MAV-1 E1A makes important contributions to viral replication in the lung and the brain following i.n. inoculation. However, E1A is not essential for the induction of inflammatory responses in the lung or for viral dissemination out of the lung.
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- Jason B. Weinberg
- University of Michigan, Department of Pediatrics, 7510A Medical Science Research Building I, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; , , and
- *Corresponding Author: Jason B. Weinberg, University of Michigan Health System, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, L2225 Women’s/0244, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0244; Phone: (734) 763-2440; Fax: (734) 936-7635; E-mail:
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- University of Michigan, Department of Pediatrics, 7510A Medical Science Research Building I, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; , , and
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- University of Michigan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 6724 Medical Sciences Building II, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and
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- University of Michigan, Department of Pediatrics, 7510A Medical Science Research Building I, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; , , and
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- University of Michigan, Department of Pediatrics, 7510A Medical Science Research Building I, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; , , and
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- University of Michigan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 6724 Medical Sciences Building II, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and
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Knight JS, Sharma N, Robertson ES. Epstein-Barr virus latent antigen 3C can mediate the degradation of the retinoblastoma protein through an SCF cellular ubiquitin ligase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:18562-6. [PMID: 16352731 PMCID: PMC1317900 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0503886102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) stimulates the proliferation of latently infected B cells and promotes lymphoid malignancies in humans. To address the role of EBV latency protein Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 3C (EBNA3C) in regulation of the retinoblastoma protein (Rb), we transfected EBNA3C into 293, BJAB, and SAOS-2 cells. In this context, a dominant effect of EBNA3C is to decrease Rb protein levels. EBNA3C also rescues an Rb-induced flat cell phenotype and targets Rb for proteasome- and ubiquitin-dependent degradation. Further, EBNA3C forms a stable complex with Rb in cells when the proteasome machinery is inhibited and interacts with Rb in vitro, mapping to a conserved domain at the terminus of EBNA3C. Deletion analysis of EBNA3C identified a motif within amino acids 140-149 important for both the binding and regulation of Rb. This motif is of particular interest, because it has also been linked to regulation of the Skp1/Cul1/F-box complex, SCF(Skp2). Indeed, inhibition of Skp2 function with a dominant-negative molecule reduces the ability of EBNA3C to degrade Rb. Skp2 has no detectable effect on Rb levels in the absence of EBNA3C, suggesting that SCF(Skp2) is specifically usurped by EBNA3C for the enhancement of Rb degradation. That EBNA3C has exploited this association suggests that other human malignancies might use a similar strategy to regulate the Rb protein.
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- Jason S Knight
- Department of Microbiology and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, 201E Johnson Pavilion, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Weinberg JB, Stempfle GS, Wilkinson JE, Younger JG, Spindler KR. Acute respiratory infection with mouse adenovirus type 1. Virology 2005; 340:245-54. [PMID: 16054189 PMCID: PMC1351061 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2005] [Revised: 06/14/2005] [Accepted: 06/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Studies of the pathogenesis of adenovirus respiratory disease are limited by the strict species-specificity of the adenoviruses. Following intranasal inoculation of adult C57BL/6 mice with mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1), we detected MAV-1 early region 3 (E3) and hexon gene expression in the lungs at 7 days post-infection (dpi). We detected MAV-1 E3 protein in the respiratory epithelium at 7 dpi. We did not detect viral mRNA or protein at 14 dpi, but MAV-1 DNA was detected by PCR at 21 dpi. Chemokine transcript levels increased between 7 and 14 dpi in the lungs of infected mice. MAV-1 infection induced a patchy cellular infiltrate in lungs at 7 and 14 dpi. This is the first report demonstrating the presence of MAV-1 in the respiratory epithelium of infected mice and describing chemokine responses in the lung induced by MAV-1 respiratory infection. MAV-1 infection of mice has the potential to serve as a model for inflammatory changes seen in human adenovirus respiratory disease.
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- Jason B Weinberg
- University of Michigan Health System, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Ann Arbor, 48109-0244, USA.
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Fang L, Spindler KR. E1A-CR3 interaction-dependent and -independent functions of mSur2 in viral replication of early region 1A mutants of mouse adenovirus type 1. J Virol 2005; 79:3267-76. [PMID: 15731221 PMCID: PMC1075722 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.6.3267-3276.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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mSur2, a subunit of the Mediator complex, is required for efficient mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) replication (L. Fang, J. L. Stevens, A. J. Berk, and K. R. Spindler, J. Virol. 78:12888-12900, 2004). We examined the contributions of early-region 1A (E1A) to mSur2 function in MAV-1 replication with E1A mutant viruses. At a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 1, viruses containing CR3 replicated better in Sur2+/+ mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) than in Sur2-/- MEFs. In contrast, viruses lacking CR3 replicated no better in Sur2+/+ than in Sur2-/- MEFs. This result supports the hypothesis that the E1A CR3-mSur2 interaction is important for MAV-1 replication. However, at an MOI of 0.05, viruses lacking CR3 showed replication defects in Sur2-/- MEFs compared to Sur2+/+ MEFs, suggesting an E1A CR3 interaction-independent function of mSur2 in MAV-1 replication in cell culture. Paradoxically, CR1Delta, CR2Delta, and CR3Delta mutant viruses replicated slightly more efficiently than wild-type (wt) MAV-1 and E1A null mutant viruses in Sur2-/- MEFs at an MOI of 0.05. Coinfection of Sur2-/- MEFs with wt MAV-1 and CR1Delta, CR2Delta, or CR3Delta mutant viruses rescued the defects of wt MAV-1 replication. This result suggests that an inhibiting effect on wt E1A protein expression and/or E1A function might account for the severe viral replication defect of MAV-1 in Sur2-/- MEFs at an MOI of 0.05. Moreover, titrations of virus yields from infected brains of inbred strains of mice showed that E1A null and CR3Delta mutant viruses had a significant defect in virus replication compared to wt MAV-1. This result supports the hypothesis that the MAV-1 E1A-mSur2 interaction is important in MAV-1 replication in mice.
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- Lei Fang
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1150 W. Medical Center Dr., 6723 Medical Science Bldg. II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0620, USA
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Fang L, Stevens JL, Berk AJ, Spindler KR. Requirement of Sur2 for efficient replication of mouse adenovirus type 1. J Virol 2004; 78:12888-900. [PMID: 15542641 PMCID: PMC525005 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.23.12888-12900.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) early region 1A (E1A) encodes a virulence gene in viral infection of mice. To broaden our understanding of the functions of E1A in MAV-1 pathogenesis, an unbiased experimental approach, glutathione S-transferase (GST) pulldown, was used to screen for cellular proteins that interact with E1A protein. We identified mouse Sur2, a subunit of Mediator complex, as a protein that binds to MAV-1 E1A. The interaction between Sur2 and MAV-1 E1A was confirmed in virus-infected cells. Conserved region 3 (CR3) of MAV-1 E1A was mapped as the region required for Sur2-E1A interaction, as is the case for human adenovirus E1A. Although it has been proposed that human adenovirus E1A recruits the Mediator complex to transactivate transcription of viral early genes, Sur2 function in adenovirus replication has not been directly tested previously. Studies on the functions of Sur2 with mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) showed that there was a multiplicity-dependent growth defect of MAV-1 in Sur2(-/-) MEFs compared to Sur2(+/+) MEFs. Comparison of the viral DNA and viral mRNA levels in Sur2(+/+) and Sur2(-/-) MEFs confirmed that Sur2 was important for efficient viral replication. The viral replication defects in Sur2(-/-) MEFs appeared to be due at least in part to a defect in viral early gene transcription.
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- Lei Fang
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1150 W. Medical Center Dr., 6723 Medical Science Bldg. II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0620, USA.
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Spindler KR, Fang L, Moore ML, Hirsch GN, Brown CC, Kajon A. SJL/J mice are highly susceptible to infection by mouse adenovirus type 1. J Virol 2001; 75:12039-46. [PMID: 11711594 PMCID: PMC116099 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.24.12039-12046.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) targets endothelial and monocyte/macrophage cells throughout the mouse. Depending on the strain of mouse and dose or strain of virus, infected mice may survive, become persistently infected, or die. We surveyed inbred mouse strains and found that for the majority tested the 50% lethal doses (LD(50)s) were >10(4.4) PFU. However, SJL/J mice were highly susceptible to MAV-1, with a mean LD(50) of 10(-0.32) PFU. Infected C3H/HeJ (resistant) and SJL/J (susceptible) mice showed only modest differences in histopathology. Susceptible mice had significantly higher viral loads in the brain and spleen at 8 days postinfection than resistant mice. Infection of primary macrophages or mouse embryo fibroblasts from SJL/J and C3H/HeJ mice gave equivalent yields of virus, suggesting that a receptor difference between strains is not responsible for the susceptibility difference. When C3H/HeJ mice were subjected to sublethal doses of gamma irradiation, they became susceptible to MAV-1, with an LD(50) like that of SJL/J mice. Antiviral immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels were measured in susceptible and resistant mice infected by an early region 1A null mutant virus that is less virulent that wild-type virus. The antiviral IgG levels were high and similar in the two strains of mice. Taken together, these results suggest that immune response differences may in part account for differences in susceptibility to MAV-1 infection.
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- K R Spindler
- Department of Genetics, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.
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Xin H, D'Souza S, Fang L, Lengyel P, Choubey D. p202, an interferon-inducible negative regulator of cell growth, is a target of the adenovirus E1A protein. Oncogene 2001; 20:6828-39. [PMID: 11687962 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1204844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2000] [Revised: 07/11/2001] [Accepted: 07/16/2001] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Studies have revealed that human adenovirus-encoded E1A protein promotes cell proliferation through the targeted interaction with cellular proteins that act as key negative regulators of cell growth. The targets of E1A protein include the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (pRb). Because p202, an interferon (IFN)-inducible murine protein (52-kDa), negatively regulates cell growth in part through the pRb/E2F pathway, we tested whether the p202 is a target of the adenovirus-encoded E1A protein for functional inactivation. Here we report that the expression of E1A protein overcame p202-mediated inhibition of cell growth and this correlated with an alleviation of p202-mediated inhibition of the transcriptional activity of E2F. Furthermore, E1A protein relieved p202-mediated inhibition of the specific DNA-binding activity of E2F complexes, including those containing the pocket proteins. Additionally, the E1A protein bound to p202 both in vitro and in vivo and a deletion of four amino acids in the conserved region 2 (CR2) of E1A protein significantly reduced the binding of E1A to p202. Interestingly, ectopic expression of p202 under reduced serum conditions significantly reduced E1A-mediated apoptosis. Taken together, our observations provide support to the idea that the p202 and adenovirus E1A protein functionally counteract each other and E1A protein targets p202 to promote cell proliferation.
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- H Xin
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, 2160 South First Avenue, Building No. 1, Maywood, Illinois, IL 60153, USA
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The effects of mouse interferon (IFN)-alpha/beta and recombinant IFN-gamma on mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) replication were investigated in single-cycle infectious virus yield reduction assays on mouse L929 cells. Viral yields at 3 days postinfection indicated that wt MAV-1 and pmE314, an early region 3 null mutant, were relatively insensitive to both IFN-alpha/beta and IFN-gamma, whereas early region 1A (E1A) mutants pmE109 (null), dlE105 (conserved region 1 deletion, CR1 Delta), dlE102 (CR2 Delta), and dlE106 (CR3 Delta) were sensitive. MAV-1 E1A that was inducibly expressed in mouse fibroblast 37.1 cells rescued vesicular stomatitis virus from the antiviral effect of IFN-alpha/beta but not from the antiviral effect of IFN-gamma. Interferon-inducible gene expression was reduced in 37.1 cells as compared to the parental 3T6 cell line. Steady-state levels of IFN-inducible gene mRNAs were also reduced in 3T6 cells infected with the wild-type virus and pmE314 but not in cells infected with pmE109. These results suggest that the MAV-1 E1A gene product is capable of interfering with the signaling pathways of both types of IFN, although modulation of IFN-alpha/beta antiviral activity was more pronounced.
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- A E Kajon
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Cauthen AN, Brown CC, Spindler KR. In vitro and in vivo characterization of a mouse adenovirus type 1 early region 3 null mutant. J Virol 1999; 73:8640-6. [PMID: 10482617 PMCID: PMC112884 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.10.8640-8646.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Previous attempts to construct a mouse adenovirus type 1 early region 3 (E3) null mutant by initiator codon mutagenesis were unsuccessful because one of the E3 proteins, gp11K, is synthesized as a fusion protein from a late viral mRNA (A. N. Cauthen and K. R. Spindler, Virology 259:119-128, 1999). Therefore, a different mutagenesis strategy was employed that inserted termination codons into all three reading frames of the E3 proteins. This strategy produced a mutant, pmE314, that was null for the expression of E3 proteins as determined by immunoprecipitation with E3-specific antisera. This mutant grew as well as wild-type (wt) virus in both 3T6 mouse fibroblasts and mouse brain microvascular endothelial cells. However, the 50% lethal dose for pmE314 in adult NIH Swiss outbred mice was approximately 6 log units higher than that of wt virus, indicating that pmE314 was less virulent in mice. In situ hybridization experiments revealed that the absence of the E3 proteins did not alter the tropism of the mutant virus from that of wt virus. When the histopathology was evaluated, the characteristics of the pmE314 infection at both doses administered were strikingly different from those exhibited by wt virus. The central nervous system of wt-infected mice exhibited damage to the endothelium and recruitment of inflammatory cells, whereas the central nervous system of pmE314-infected mice showed no inflammatory response and only mild signs of endothelial damage.
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- A N Cauthen
- Department of Genetics, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Cauthen AN, Spindler KR. Novel expression of mouse adenovirus type 1 early region 3 gp11K at late times after infection. Virology 1999; 259:119-28. [PMID: 10364495 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mutations were introduced into mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) early region 3 (E3) initiator codons by homologous recombination between viral DNA and a plasmid containing a mutagenized E3 region. The resulting mutant virus, pmE312, contained ATG --> TTA mutations at codon positions 1 and 4 and was expected to be null for the expression of the E3 proteins. However, gp11K, an MAV-1 E3 glycoprotein of 14K molecular weight, was detected in mutant-infected cell lysates at levels about 10-12% of that of wild-type (wt) virus at late times in infection. The gp11K polypeptide produced by pmE312 at late times was immunoprecipitated with two E3-specific antisera prepared against different regions of the protein. Like gp11K produced by wt virus infections, it was sensitive to endoglycosidase H (endo H) and thus resident in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In pmE312-infected cells treated with cytosine arabinoside (araC), an inhibitor of DNA replication, the gp11K protein was not detected by immunoprecipitation. This indicates that gp11K expression in pmE312-infected cells at late times was dependent on DNA replication and that it was thus translated from a late transcript. In vitro translation of poly(A)+ RNA from mock-, wild-type-, and pmE312-infected cells showed that gp11K was translated from late mRNA as an approximately 28K fusion between a late protein and gp11K. Our data are consistent with a model in which gp11K is expressed at late times as a late protein-gp11K chimera in both wt- and mutant-infected cells. This chimera is then processed: removal of a large N-terminal sequence results in the observed 14K ER-localized gp11K.
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- A N Cauthen
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Ying B, Smith K, Spindler KR. Mouse adenovirus type 1 early region 1A is dispensable for growth in cultured fibroblasts. J Virol 1998; 72:6325-31. [PMID: 9658071 PMCID: PMC109774 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.8.6325-6331.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/1998] [Accepted: 04/21/1998] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) mutants with deletions of conserved regions of early region 1A (E1A) or with point mutations that eliminate translation of E1A were used to determine the role of E1A in MAV-1 replication. MAV-1 E1A mutants expressing no E1A protein grew to titers comparable to wild-type MAV-1 titers on mouse fibroblasts (3T6 fibroblasts and fibroblasts derived from Rb+/+, Rb+/-, and Rb-/- transgenic embryos). To test the hypothesis that E1A could induce a quiescent cell to reenter the cell cycle, fibroblasts were serum starved to stop DNA replication and cellular replication and then infected with the E1A mutant and wild-type viruses. All grew to equivalent titers. Steady-state levels of MAV-1 early mRNAs (E1A, E1B, E2, E3, and E4) from 3T6 cells infected with wild-type or E1A mutant virus were examined by Northern analysis. Steady-state levels of mRNAs from the mutant-infected cells were comparable to or greater than the levels found in wild-type virus infections for most of the early regions and for two late genes. The E2 mRNA levels were slightly reduced in all mutant infections relative to wild-type infections. E1A mRNA was not detected from infections with the MAV-1 E1A null mutant, pmE109, or from infections with similar MAV-1 E1A null mutants, pmE112 and pmE113. The implications for the lack of a requirement of E1A in cell culture are discussed.
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- B Ying
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Smith K, Brown CC, Spindler KR. The role of mouse adenovirus type 1 early region 1A in acute and persistent infections in mice. J Virol 1998; 72:5699-706. [PMID: 9621028 PMCID: PMC110240 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.7.5699-5706.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1) early region 1A (E1A) viral mutants were used to determine the importance of this region in pathogenesis and establishment of a persistent infection in the natural host. Lethal dose analysis with adult male Swiss outbred mice revealed a significant reduction in virulence for all of the E1A mutants. During acute infections with 10(5) PFU of virus, an E1A null mutant, pmE109, was found in the same organs (brain, spleen, and spinal cord) and the same cell types (endothelial cells and mononuclear cells in lymphoid tissue) as wild-type virus. Another null mutant, pmE112, was detected in the same organs but in lower numbers. However, when mice were given a lower dose, 1 PFU, pmE109 and pmE112 reached none of the target organs analyzed by 14 days postinfection (p.i.). The absence of E1A did not hinder the ability of MAV-1 to establish a persistent infection. Viral nucleic acid was detected by PCR amplification or in situ hybridization in the kidneys, brains, spleens, and prefemoral lymph nodes of mice infected with wild-type or mutant virus up to 55 weeks p.i. The brain, spleen, and lymph node are recognized sites of acute viral infection but are previously unrecognized sites for MAV-1 persistence. Evidence for the potential reactivation of persistent MAV-1 infections is also presented.
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- K Smith
- Department of Genetics, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-7223, USA
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Meissner JD, Hirsch GN, LaRue EA, Fulcher RA, Spindler KR. Completion of the DNA sequence of mouse adenovirus type 1: sequence of E2B, L1, and L2 (18-51 map units). Virus Res 1997; 51:53-64. [PMID: 9381795 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1702(97)00079-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The DNA sequence of 9991 nt, corresponding to 18-51 map units of mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1), was determined, completing the sequence of the Larsen strain of MAV-1. The length of the complete MAV-1 genome is 30,946 nucleotides, consistent with previous experimental estimates. The 18-51 map unit region encodes early region 2B proteins necessary for adenoviral replication as well as late region L1 and L2 structural and packaging proteins. Sequence comparison in this region with human adenoviruses indicates broad similarities, including colinear preservation of all recognized open reading frames (ORFs), with highest amino acid identity occurring in the DNA polymerase and polypeptide III (penton base subunit) ORFs. Virus-associated (VA) RNA is not encoded in the region where VA RNAs are found in the human adenoviruses, between E2B and L1, nor is it encoded anywhere in the entire MAV-1 genome. The MAV-1 polypeptide III lacks the arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) motif which is involved in an association with cell-surface integrins. Only one RGD sequence is found in an identified coding region in the entire MAV-1 genome. Similar to the porcine adenovirus, this RGD sequence is found in the C-terminus of the MAV-1 fiber protein.
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- J D Meissner
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens 30602, USA
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Song B, Young CS. Functional characterization of the major late promoter of mouse adenovirus type 1. Virology 1997; 235:109-17. [PMID: 9300042 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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During the late phase of adenovirus infection, the major late promoter (MLP) controls the regulated expression of the genes that encode most viral structural proteins. Recently, the region of the genome of mouse adenovirus type 1 (MAV-1), predicted to contain the MLP, was sequenced and compared to that of the human virus MLP. The general organization of the transcriptional elements of the putative MAV-1 MLP is similar to that of the human virus counterpart, with some interesting differences. We wished to investigate the function of the predicted MLP of MAV-1 and to determine the significance of the differences found in the MAV-1 MLP. To test the activity of the predicted MLP of MAV-1, both Northern blot and primer extension analyses were performed on intracellular RNA isolated from cells infected with MAV-1. The results show that late RNA can be detected 48 hr postinfection and increases up to 6 days p.i. Primer extension analysis revealed that the major start sites of transcription are 28 and 31 nt downstream of the first T residue of the predicted TATA box. To analyze the functional significance of the predicted transcriptional elements, a transient transfection system, using the firefly luciferase gene controlled by the MAV-1 MLP sequence, was established. The predicted MLP sequence was capable of directing luciferase gene expression, to a level some 60% of that of the human virus MLP. Mutations were created in the inverted CAAT box, the SP1 site, and the TATA box, either singly or in combination. Each single-element mutation causes a marked reduction in luciferase gene expression, with the SP1 mutation showing the greatest effect. Double mutations were even more deficient, suggesting a level of functional redundancy among the various transcriptional elements. Finally, the putative SP1-binding site was examined by gel mobility shift assay and shown to interact with purified SP1 protein specifically, supporting the functional significance of this transcriptional element. These findings contribute to a better understanding of gene expression in MAV-1 and to its development as an appropriate model for the study of the molecular basis of pathogenesis in a natural host animal.
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- B Song
- Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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