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Watanabe R, Takase-Yoden S, Fukumitsu H, Nakajima K. Cell Transplantation to the Brain with Microglia Labeled by Neuropathogenic Retroviral Vector System. Cell Transplant 2017. [DOI: 10.3727/000000002783985684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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A8 virus (A8-V) is a molecular clone of the neuropathogenic FrC6 virus derived from the Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV). The A8-V infects endothelia and microglia in the brain. We constructed a gene transfer system with the A8-V gene. Pseudotyped virus carrying the surface protein of A8-V (A8-SU) transduced the β-glactosidase gene incorporated in the retroviral vector efficiently to cultured microglial cells derived from newborn rats. Ex vivo gene transferred microglial cells were then injected into the right hemi-sphere of 3-day-old and 3-week-old rat brains. All of the rats examined at 4 weeks after the injection contained the labeled microglial cells in the brain (7/7 and 5/5 of the rats injected at 3 days and 3 weeks, respectively). None of the rats showed pathological changes in the whole body investigated, including the central nervous system, 4 weeks after transplantation of the labeled microglial cells.
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- Rihito Watanabe
- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan
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Fukumitsu H, Takase-Yoden S, Furukawa S, Nemoto K, Ikeda T, Watanabe R. Implantation of BDNF-Producing Packaging Cells into Brain. Cell Transplant 2017. [DOI: 10.3727/000000002783985657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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In order to invent a screening system to check in vivo gene function and the efficiency of gene transfer mediated by a retroviral vector system, we established a novel packaging cell, PacC6/A8, that is transplantable to rat brains. The packaging cell is based on the gene of the neuropatogenic retrovirus, A8-V. For expression in the brain, a vector that expresses brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) tagged by c-Myc-His6 (LxA/bdmh) was constructed. After transfection of LxA/bdmh to PacC6/A8, a cloned cell line, PacC6/ A8/bmh, was established. PacC6/A8/bmh cells stably produced pseudotyped retroviruses carrying LxA/ bdmh. For a control, a retroviral vector that bears the gene that codes enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) tagged by C-Mic-His6 was also created and used for the establishment of PacC6/A8/gfmh cells that produce pseudotyped retroviruses carrying LxA/gfmh. PacC6/A8/bmh and PacC6/A8/gfmh cells were injected to the brain of newborn rats. A tumor was formed in all the rats injected that did not exhibit any symptoms until 3–4 weeks after the injection. A histological study of the injected rats revealed that the transferred BDNF gene was expressed in the brain of rats injected with PacC6/A8/bmh cells, but not in rats with PacC6/A8/gfmh cells. Interestingly, many activated microglia had migrated into the tumor induced by PacC6/A8/bmh cells, and expressed a high amount of BDNF.
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- Hidefumi Fukumitsu
- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Mitahora-higashi, Gifu 502-8585, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Toxicology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
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Machinaga A, Ishihara S, Shirai A, Takase-Yoden S. Splicing of Friend Murine Leukemia Virus env-mRNA Enhances Its Ability to Form Polysomes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:160. [PMID: 26909075 PMCID: PMC4754430 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Accepted: 01/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Friend murine leukemia virus (MLV) belongs to the gamma retroviruses of the Retroviridae family. The positive-sense RNA of its genome contains a 5' long terminal repeat (LTR), 5' leader sequence, gag, pol, env, and 3' LTR. Transcription from proviral DNA begins from the R region of the 5' LTR and ends at the polyadenylation signal located at the R region of the other end of the 3' LTR. There is a 5' splice site in the 5' leader sequence and a 3' splice site at the 3' end of the pol region. Both full-length unspliced mRNAs and a singly spliced mRNA (env-mRNA) are produced in MLV-infected cells. The MLV Env protein plays important roles both in viral adsorption to host cells and in neuropathogenic disease in MLV-infected mice and rats. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms controlling Env expression is important for determining the functions of the Env protein. We have previously shown that splicing increases env-mRNA stability and translation efficiency. Generally, mRNA polysome formation correlates with translation efficiency. Therefore, here we investigated the effects of env-mRNA splicing on polysome formation to identify mechanisms for Env up-regulation due to splicing. We performed polysome profile analyses using Env-expression plasmids producing spliced or unspliced env-mRNA and showed that the former formed polysomes more efficiently than the latter. Thus, splicing of env-mRNA facilitated polysome formation, suggesting that this contributes to up-regulation of Env expression. We replaced the env region of the expression plasmids with a luciferase (luc) gene, and found that in this case both unspliced and spliced luc-mRNA formed polysomes to a similar extent. Thus, we conclude that whether mRNA polysome formation is affected by splicing depends on the structure of gene in question.
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- Akihito Machinaga
- Department of Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Engineering, Soka University Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Engineering, Soka University Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Engineering, Soka University Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Engineering, Soka UniversityTokyo, Japan; Department of Science and Engineering for Sustainable Innovation, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Soka UniversityTokyo, Japan
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Machinaga A, Takase-Yoden S. Polyadenylation of Friend murine leukemia virus env-mRNA is affected by its splicing. Microbiol Immunol 2015; 58:474-82. [PMID: 24935657 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.12170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Revised: 05/19/2014] [Accepted: 06/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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As splicing was previously found to be important for increasing Friend murine leukemia virus env-mRNA stability and translation, we investigated whether splicing of env-mRNA affected the poly(A) tail length using env expression vectors that yielded unspliced or spliced env-mRNA. Incomplete polyadenylation was detected in a fraction of the unspliced env-mRNA products in an env gene-dependent manner, showing that splicing of Friend murine leukemia virus plays an important role in the efficiency of complete polyadenylation of env-mRNA. These results suggested that the promotion of complete polyadenylation of env-mRNA by splicing might partially explain up-regulation of Env protein expression as a result of splicing.
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- Akihito Machinaga
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, 1-236, Tangi-machi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan
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Shubin AV, Demidyuk IV, Lunina NA, Komissarov AA, Roschina MP, Leonova OG, Kostrov SV. Protease 3C of hepatitis A virus induces vacuolization of lysosomal/endosomal organelles and caspase-independent cell death. BMC Cell Biol 2015; 16:4. [PMID: 25886889 PMCID: PMC4355371 DOI: 10.1186/s12860-015-0050-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND 3C proteases, the main proteases of picornaviruses, play the key role in viral life cycle by processing polyproteins. In addition, 3C proteases digest certain host cell proteins to suppress antiviral defense, transcription, and translation. The activity of 3C proteases per se induces host cell death, which makes them critical factors of viral cytotoxicity. To date, cytotoxic effects have been studied for several 3C proteases, all of which induce apoptosis. This study for the first time describes the cytotoxic effect of 3C protease of human hepatitis A virus (3Cpro), the only proteolytic enzyme of the virus. RESULTS Individual expression of 3Cpro induced catalytic activity-dependent cell death, which was not abrogated by the pan-caspase inhibitor (z-VAD-fmk) and was not accompanied by phosphatidylserine externalization in contrast to other picornaviral 3C proteases. The cell survival was also not affected by the inhibitors of cysteine proteases (z-FA-fmk) and RIP1 kinase (necrostatin-1), critical enzymes involved in non-apoptotic cell death. A substantial fraction of dying cells demonstrated numerous non-acidic cytoplasmic vacuoles with not previously described features and originating from several types of endosomal/lysosomal organelles. The lysosomal protein Lamp1 and GTPases Rab5, Rab7, Rab9, and Rab11 were associated with the vacuolar membranes. The vacuolization was completely blocked by the vacuolar ATPase inhibitor (bafilomycin A1) and did not depend on the activity of the principal factors of endosomal transport, GTPases Rab5 and Rab7, as well as on autophagy and macropinocytosis. CONCLUSIONS 3Cpro, apart from other picornaviral 3C proteases, induces caspase-independent cell death, accompanying by cytoplasmic vacuolization. 3Cpro-induced vacuoles have unique properties and are formed from several organelle types of the endosomal/lysosomal compartment. The data obtained demonstrate previously undocumented morphological characters of the 3Cpro-induced cell death, which can reflect unknown aspects of the human hepatitis A virus-host cell interaction.
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- Andrey V Shubin
- Laboratory of Protein Engineering, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 123182, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Protein Engineering, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 123182, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Protein Engineering, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 123182, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Protein Engineering, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 123182, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Protein Engineering, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 123182, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119992, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Protein Engineering, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 123182, Russia.
- National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, 123182, Russia.
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Machinaga A, Takase-Yoden S. A 38 nt region and its flanking sequences within gag of Friend murine leukemia virus are crucial for splicing at the correct 5' and 3' splice sites. Microbiol Immunol 2014; 58:38-50. [PMID: 24236664 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.12114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2013] [Revised: 10/25/2013] [Accepted: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The genome of the Friend murine leukemia virus (Fr-MLV) contains a 5' splice site (5'ss) located at 205 nt and a 3'ss located at 5489 nt. In our previous studies, it was shown that if the HindIII-BglII (879-1904 bp) fragment within gag is deleted from the proA8m1 vector, which carries the entire Fr-MLV sequence, then cryptic splicing of env-mRNA occurs. Here, attempts were made to identify the genomic segment(s) in this region that is/are essential to correct splicing. First, vectors with a serially truncated HindIII-BglII fragment were constructed. The vector, in which a 38 bp fragment (1612-1649 bp) is deleted or reversed in proA8m1, only produced splice variants. It was found that a 38 nt region within gag contains important elements that positively regulate splicing at the correct splice sites. Further analyses of a series of vectors carrying the 38 bp fragment and its flanking sequences showed that a region (1183-1611 nt) upstream of the 38 nt fragment also contains sequences that positively or negatively influence splicing at the correct splice sites. The SphI-NdeI (5140-5400 bp) fragment just upstream of the 3'ss was deleted from vectors that carried the 38 bp fragment and its flanking sequences, which yielded correctly spliced mRNA; interestingly, these deleted vectors showed cryptic splicing. These findings suggest that the 5140-5400 nt region located just upstream of the 3'ss is required for the splicing function of the 38 nt fragment and its flanking sequences.
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- Akihito Machinaga
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, 1-236, Tangi-machi, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan
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Hirano T, Watanabe R, Takase-Yoden S. Increased Expression ofc-mycIs Associated with Thymoma in Rats Infected with Murine Leukemia Virus A8. Microbiol Immunol 2013; 49:1069-74. [PMID: 16365532 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2005.tb03704.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Infection of rats with Friend murine leukemia virus (Fr-MLV) clone A8 causes thymoma in all the animals within 7 weeks. The rapid induction of thymoma is associated with a unique enhancer structure in the U3 region of the A8-LTR. Our Southern blot analyses showed that the thymomas were oligo clonal. The A8-induced thymomas showed 3-to 11-fold overexpression of c-myc mRNA. These results suggest that provirus insertion into particular positions of the host genome is correlated with tumorigenesis after A8 infection and that up-regulation of c-myc plays an important role in the induction of thymoma.
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- Tomoko Hirano
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
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Choo YC, Seki Y, Takase-Yoden S. Kinetic studies of the effect of a 17-nucleotide difference in the 0.3-kb region containing the R-U5-5' leader sequence of Friend murine leukemia virus on viral gene expression. Microbiol Immunol 2013; 57:594-9. [PMID: 23945025 DOI: 10.1111/1348-0421.12072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2013] [Revised: 05/19/2013] [Accepted: 05/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In addition to the env gene, a 0.3-kb fragment containing the R-U5-5' leader sequence is essential for the induction of spongiform neurodegeneration by Friend murine leukemia virus (Fr-MLV) clone A8 and it also influences expression of the Env protein. Kinetic studies were carried out using two recombinant viruses, R7f, carrying the A8 0.3-kb fragment, and Rec5, carrying the 0.3-kb fragment of the non-neuropathogenic Fr-MLV clone 57. These analyses suggested that the 0.3-kb fragment influenced the expression level of the Env protein by regulating the amount of spliced env-mRNA rather than the amount of total viral mRNA or viral production.
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- Yeng Cheng Choo
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, 1-236, Tangi-machi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, 192-8577, Japan
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O-sulfate groups of heparin are critical for inhibition of ecotropic murine leukemia virus infection by heparin. Virology 2012; 424:56-66. [PMID: 22226323 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2011.11.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2011] [Revised: 11/27/2011] [Accepted: 11/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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There is increasing evidence that soluble glycosaminoglycans such as heparin can interfere with the infectivity of various viruses, including ecotropic murine leukemia viruses (MLVs). The ecotropic MLV, Friend MLV (F-MLV) and the neuropathogenic variants A8 MLV and PVC-211 MLV, were susceptible to heparin-mediated inhibition of infection of NIH 3T3 cells. To investigate the interaction between the envelope glycoprotein (Env) of MLV and heparin, we prepared vesicular stomatitis virus-based pseudotyped viruses carrying the Env of F-, A8, or PVC-211 MLVs. Surface plasmon resonance analyses indicated that the Env of A8 and PVC-211 MLVs had a higher binding activity to heparin than that of F-MLV. We examined the influence of N- or O-sulfation of heparin on binding activity to Env and on the inhibition of the infectivity of MLV and pseudotyped viruses carrying Env. This analysis indicated that the O-sulfate groups of heparin play a major role in determining Env-dependent inhibitory effects.
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Seki Y, Hirano N, Mizukura M, Watanabe R, Takase-Yoden S. Narrowing down the critical region within env gene for determining neuropathogenicity of murine leukemia virus A8. Microbiol Immunol 2012; 55:694-703. [PMID: 21831205 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2011.00374.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Friend murine leukemia virus clone A8 causes spongiform neurodegeneration in the rat brain, and the env gene of A8 is a primary determinant of neuropathogenicity. In order to narrow down the critical region within the env gene that determines neuropathogenicity, we constructed chimeric viruses having chimeric env between A8 and non-neuropathogenic 57 on the background of A8 virus. After replacement of the BamHI (at nucleotide 5715)-AgeI (at nucleotide 6322) fragment of A8 virus with the corresponding fragment of 57, neuropathogenicity was lost. In contrast, the chimeric viruses that have the BamHI (5715)-AgeI (6322) fragment of A8 induced spongiosis in 100% of infected rats at the same or slightly lower intensity than A8 virus. These results indicate that the BamHI (5715)-AgeI (6322) fragment of A8, which contains the signal sequence and the N-terminal half of RBD, is crucial for the induction of spongiform neurodegeneration. In the BamHI (5715)-AgeI (6322) fragment, seven amino acids differed between A8 and 57, one in the signal sequence and six in RBD, which suggests that these amino acids significantly contribute to the neuropathogenicity of A8.
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- Yohei Seki
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
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Kashiwazaki H, Nomura R, Matsuyama S, Taguchi F, Watanabe R. Spongiform degeneration induced by neuropathogenic murine coronavirus infection. Pathol Int 2011; 61:184-91. [PMID: 21418390 PMCID: PMC7167946 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2010.02639.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Soluble receptor‐resistant mutant 7 (ssr7) is isolated from a highly neurovirulent mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) JHMV cl‐2 strain (cl‐2). srr7 exhibits lower virulence than its maternal strain in infected mice, which is typically manifested in a longer lifespan. In this study, during the course of infection with srr7, small spongiotic lesions became apparent at 2 days post‐inoculation (pi), they spread out to form spongiform encephalopathy by 8 to 10 days pi. We recently reported that the initial expressions of viral antigens in the brain are detected in the infiltrating monocyte lineage and in ependymal cells. Here, we demonstrate that the next viral spread was observed in glial fibrillary acidic protein‐positive cells or nestin‐positive progenitor cells which take up positions in the subventricular zone (SVZ). From this restricted site of infection in the SVZ, a large area of gliosis extended deep into the brain parenchyma where no viral antigens were detected but vacuolar degeneration started at 48 h pi of the virus. The extremely short incubation period compared with other experimental models of infectious spongiform degeneration in the brain would provide a superior experimental model to investigate the mechanism of spongiotic lesions formation.
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- Hiromi Kashiwazaki
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan
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Takatsuki H, Taguchi F, Nomura R, Kashiwazaki H, Watanabe M, Ikehara Y, Watanabe R. Cytopathy of an infiltrating monocyte lineage during the early phase of infection with murinecoronavirus in the brain. Neuropathology 2009; 30:361-71. [PMID: 20051016 PMCID: PMC7194124 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2009.01082.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Viral spread during the early stages after infection was compared between a highly neurovirulent mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), JHMV cl-2 strain (cl-2), and its low-virulent mutant, soluble-receptor-resistant (srr)7. The infection of cells with srr7 (soluble-receptor-resistant mutant 7) is dependent on a known MHV receptor (MHVR), carcinoembryonic cell adhesion molecule 1a, whereas cl-2 shows MHVR-independent infection. Initial viral antigens were detected between 12 and 24 h post-inoculation (p.i) in the infiltrating cells that appeared in the subarachnoidal space of mouse brains infected with viruses. There were no significant differences in the intensity or spread of viral antigens in the inflammatory cells between the two viruses. However, 48 h after infection with cl-2, viral antigen-positive cells in the grey matter with the shape of neurons, which do not express MHVR, were detected, while srr7 infection was observed primarily in the white matter. Some of the viral antigen-positive inflammatory cells found in the subarachnoidal space during the early phase of infection reacted with anti-F4/80 or anti-CD11b monoclonal antibodies. Syncytial giant cells (SGCs) expressing viral and CD11b antigens were also detected among these inflammatory cells. These antigen-positive cells appeared in the subarachnoidal space prior to viral antigen spread into the brain parenchyma, indicating that viral encephalitis starts with the infection of infiltrating monocytes which express MHVR. Furthermore, the observation indicates that viral infection has cytopathic effects on the monocyte lineage, which plays a critical role in innate immunity, leading to the rapid spread of viruses during the early stage of infection.
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- Hanae Takatsuki
- Department of Bioinformatics, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo
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Yamamoto N, Takase-Yoden S. Analysis of cis-regulatory elements in the 5' untranslated region of murine leukemia virus controlling protein expression. Microbiol Immunol 2009; 53:140-8. [PMID: 19302524 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00103.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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It has previously been reported by us that high-level expression of the Env protein of Fr-MLV clone A8 in brains is crucial for induction of spongiform neurodegeneration, and that the 0.3-kb fragment containing the R, U5, and the 5' leader sequence of A8 is responsible for neuropathogenicity. In the present study, the role of the 5' untranslated region in protein expression was investigated. Luciferase expression vectors containing the LTR (R-U3-U5) and 5' leader sequence of A8 and non-neuropathogenic 57 Fr-MLV, designated gl-A8 and gl-57, and their chimeric vectors, were constructed, and transfected into rat glial cells F10. Replacement of the region containing the 3' half of R, U5, and 5' leader sequence of gl-A8 with that of 57 showed a reduction in luciferase activities, and replacement of this region of gl-57 with that of A8 showed increased luciferase activity. These results show that the region containing the 3' half of R, U5, and 5' leader sequence of A8 more efficiently up-regulates protein expression than 57. In particular, the 3' half of 5' leader of A8 was most responsible for the up-regulation of protein expression. Of interest, after replacement of the fragments between A8 and 57, changes in the activities of vectors containing A8-U3 paralleled the amount of mRNA, but the activities of vectors containing 57-U3 did not. Furthermore, it is suggested that the region containing R, U5, and the 5' leader sequence influences transcriptional or post-transcriptional steps, depending on the upstream sequence containing enhancer elements and promoter.
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- Naoki Yamamoto
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
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Yamamoto N, Takase-Yoden S. Friend murine leukemia virus A8 regulates Env protein expression through an intron sequence. Virology 2009; 385:115-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.11.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2008] [Revised: 09/23/2008] [Accepted: 11/21/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Takase-Yoden S, Wada M, Watanabe R. A viral non-coding region determining neuropathogenicity of murine leukemia virus A8 is responsible for envelope protein expression in the rat brain. Microbiol Immunol 2006; 50:197-201. [PMID: 16547417 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2006.tb03786.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Friend murine leukemia virus clone A8 causes spongiform neurodegeneration in the rat brain. A 0.3-kb fragment containing the R-U5-5' leader sequence of A8 is required in addition to the A8-env gene to induce spongiosis. The A8-env gene is a primary determinant of neuropathogenicity. Comparative studies of the neuropathogenic virus R7f, which carries the 0.3-kb fragment of A8 and A8-env on the background of the non-neuropathogenic clone 57, and the non-neuropathogenic virus Rec5, which carries A8-env on the background of 57, showed that the 0.3-kb fragment of A8 was responsible for increasing the ratio of Env/Gag expression in the brain, but not in the spleen.
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- Sayaka Takase-Yoden
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
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Watanabe R, Takase-Yoden S. Neuropathology induced by infection with Friend murine leukemia viral clone A8-V depends upon the level of viral antigen expression. Neuropathology 2006; 26:188-95. [PMID: 16771173 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2006.00680.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A8-V is a neuropathogenic clone isolated from the Friend murine leukemia virus which causes spongiosis in the rat brain after infection at birth. Serial studies using chimeric viruses derived from the A8-V and the 57 virus (57-V), which is a non-neuropathogenic strain of Friend murine leukemia virus, proved that the long terminal repeat (LTR) and 5' leader (LTR-leader/A8) derived from A8-V, in addition to the env gene (env/A8) of A8-V, are necessary for the neuropathogenesis of A8-V. The enhancer element within the LTR of A8-V (LTR/A8) has been supposed to contribute to the severe manifestation of spongiosis by inducing high levels of viral production in the brain after A8-V infection. However, the recombinant viruses R7c and R7f, which lack the enhancer element of A8-V, induced spongiosis with high incidence rates, although the isolated viral titers of the infected brain display very low levels, which are even comparable to the 57-V infection. Immunohistochemical studies demonstrated that infection with neuropathogenic chimerae, R7c and R7f, induced increased expression of viral antigens than that produced by infection with non-neuropathogenic chimeric virus, Rec5, despite the fact that R7c, R7f and Rec5 all exhibited similar levels of viral proliferation in the brain postinfection. Thus, neuropathology induced by A8 infection is not dependent upon the viral proliferation rate but rather the level of viral antigen expression.
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- Rihito Watanabe
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
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Kanamatsu T, Watanabe R, Takase-Yoden S. Cerebral metabolism in brains of rats infected with neuropathogenic murine leukemia viruses. J Vet Med Sci 2006; 68:259-65. [PMID: 16598170 DOI: 10.1292/jvms.68.259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Friend murine leukemia virus A8 and PVC211 cause spongiform neurodegeneration in rat brains. Glutamate is an important neurotransmitter synthesized from alpha-ketoglutaric acid, an intermediate product of the citric acid cycle, and glutamine is synthesized from glutamate. To examine the brain metabolism of rats infected with neuropathogenic viruses, the amount of glutamate and glutamine in the brains of rats infected with A8, PVC211, and non-neuropathogenic 57 was measured using high performance liquid chromatography, and the (13)C-label incorporation into the C4 position of glutamate and glutamine from [1-(13)C] glucose was measured with (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance. In the cerebral hemisphere and region containing the brain stem and basal ganglia of rats infected with A8 and PVC211 at 8-9 weeks post-infection (wpi), the amount of glutamine was decreased compared with the 57-infected rats. The amount of glutamate was decreased in the cerebral hemisphere of the A8-infected rats and the region containing the brain stem and basal ganglia of PVC211-infected rats at 8-9 wpi. The amount of [4-(13)C] glutamine and [4-(13)C] glutamate in the cerebral hemisphere and region containing the brain stem and basal ganglia of rats infected with A8 and PVC211 at 8-9 wpi was equivalent to that of the 57-infected rats. These results suggest that in the brains of rats infected with neuropathogenic viruses, de novo synthesis of glutamate and glutamine is not decreased, but the ability to maintain quantitative levels of glutamate and glutamine is decreased compared with the brains of rats infected with non-neuropathogenic virus.
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- Tomoyuki Kanamatsu
- Department of Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan
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Nakai R, Takase-Yoden S, Watanabe R. Analysis of the distribution of neuropathogenic retroviral antigens following PVC211 or A8-V infection. Microbiol Immunol 2005; 49:1075-81. [PMID: 16365533 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2005.tb03705.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A8-V and PVC211 are neuropathogenic strains of the Friend murine leukemia virus (Fr-MLV) that cause spongiosis in the rat brain after infection at birth. PVC211 exhibited stronger neuropathogenicity than A8-V, and induced more severe neurological symptoms such as hind-leg paralysis. These symptoms correlated with the neuropathological spread and intensity, which were more severe in the spinal cord of rats infected with PVC211 than in those infected with A8-V, without exhibiting neuropathological differences in other areas of the CNS. Interestingly, virus titers recovered from infected spinal cords were similar in PVC211 and A8-V infected animals. However, in the spinal cord infected with PVC211, glial cells attained higher immunohistochemical expression scores for the viral surface antigen, gp70 (Env) than in the A8-V infected spinal cord, although expression levels of viral antigens in blood vessel walls were similar in A8-V and PVC211 infections. Furthermore, many of those glial cells which carried viral antigens were found, by double immunostaining, to be microglia. The results suggested that the spread of viral antigen positive microglia plays an important role in forming the different neuro-pathogenicity observed in A8-V and PVC211 infections.
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- Ryuhei Nakai
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611 Japan
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Takase-Yoden S, Watanabe R. A 0.3-kb fragment containing the R-U5-5' leader sequence is essential for the induction of spongiform neurodegeneration by A8 murine leukemia virus. Virology 2005; 336:1-10. [PMID: 15866066 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2004] [Revised: 01/21/2005] [Accepted: 03/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Friend murine leukemia virus (Fr-MLV) clone A8 causes spongiform neurodegeneration in the rat brain. The A8-env gene is a primary determinant of neuropathogenicity, and the 1.5-kb ClaI-HindIII fragment containing the LTR and 5' leader from A8 are additionally required for spongiosis. After replacement of the A8 enhancer region of the neuropathogenic chimera with the enhancer region of non-neuropathogenic 57, viral titer in the brain was reduced by two orders of magnitude. However, the A8 enhancer region was not responsible for the induction of spongiosis. The region responsible for neuropathogenesis was located in the 0.3-kb KpnI-AatII fragment of A8 containing the R-U5-5' leader. The chimeric virus possessing this 0.3-kb fragment of A8 and the A8-env in the 57 background induced a high rate of spongiform neurodegeneration within 7 weeks (9/9 of infected rats). Studies using cultured cells suggest that the 0.3-kb fragment influences the expression of Env protein. Furthermore, these neuropathogenic chimerae, despite low viral replication in the brain, exhibited a stronger expression of Env protein compared with that of non-neuropathogenic viruses.
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- Sayaka Takase-Yoden
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
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Murine leukemia viruses may produce encephalopathies that have the same characteristics as those induced by infectious proteins or prions: neuronal loss, astrocytosis, and absence of inflammatory response. The pathogenic mechanism is still poorly understood but it seems that it involves the envelope proteins (Env), which may be misprocessed in the cell, giving rise to pathogenic isoforms that trigger oxidative damage. Env may also affect the cytokine pattern in the central nervous system and thus, induce encephalopathy.
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- Esperanza Gomez-Lucia
- Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
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Murphy SL, Honczarenko MJ, Dugger NV, Hoffman PM, Gaulton GN. Disparate regions of envelope protein regulate syncytium formation versus spongiform encephalopathy in neurological disease induced by murine leukemia virus TR. J Virol 2004; 78:8392-9. [PMID: 15254211 PMCID: PMC446142 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.15.8392-8399.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The murine leukemia virus (MLV) TR1.3 provides an excellent model to study the wide range of retrovirus-induced central nervous system (CNS) pathology and disease. TR1.3 rapidly induces thrombotic events in brain microvessels and causes cell-specific syncytium formation of brain capillary endothelial cells (BCEC). A single amino acid substitution, W102G, in the MLV envelope protein (Env) regulates the pathogenic effects. The role of Env in determining this disease phenotype compared to the induction of spongiform encephalomyelitis with a longer latency, as seen in several other MLV and in human retroviruses, was determined by studying in vitro-attenuated TR1.3. Virus cloned from this selection, termed TRM, induced progressive neurological disease characterized by ataxia and paralysis and the appearance of spongiform neurodegeneration throughout the brain stem and spinal cord. This disease was associated with virus replication in both BCEC and highly ramified glial cells. TRM did not induce syncytium formation, either in vivo or in vitro. Sequence and mutational analyses demonstrated that TRM contained a reversion of Env G102W but that neurological disease mapped to the single amino acid substitution Env S159P. The results demonstrate that single nucleotide changes within disparate regions of Env control dramatically different CNS disease patterns.
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- Samuel L Murphy
- Department of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6142, USA
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Takase-Yoden S, Watanabe R. Unique three-repeat sequences containing FVa, LVb/C4, and CORE motifs in LTR-U3 of Friend murine leukemia virus clone A8 accelerate the induction of thymoma in rat. Virology 2004; 326:29-40. [PMID: 15262492 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2004.04.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2004] [Revised: 04/13/2004] [Accepted: 04/30/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Friend murine leukemia virus (Fr-MLV) clone A8 causes thymoma 7 weeks postinfection in rats with a more rapid progression than clone 57. The U3 region of A8-LTR contains a unique structure of enhancer motifs consisting of three repeats of a 38-bp sequence containing FVa, LVb/C4, and CORE motifs. Replacement or deletion of the 38-bp sequence in the A8-U3 resulted in a marked reduction in tumorigenicity. Furthermore, the virus with 57-U3 gained high tumorigenicity after construction of the three 38-bp repeats in the U3 region. These findings indicated that the repeats of the 38-bp sequence of A8-LTR are essential for the rapid induction of thymoma. Interestingly, the repeat of the 38-bp sequence did not accelerate the amount of integrated viral DNA in the thymus during the early phase of infection, although it contributed to higher production of infectious virus. Thus, it was demonstrated that the ability to induce thymoma, which correlates with virus titer in the thymus, is not determined by the rate of viral DNA integration into the host genome.
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- Sayaka Takase-Yoden
- Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
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Takase-Yoden S, Watanabe R. Identification of genetic determinants that regulate tumorigenicity of Friend murine leukemia virus in rats. Microbiol Immunol 2003; 46:885-90. [PMID: 12597364 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2002.tb02777.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A neuropathogenic variant of Friend murine leukemia virus (FrMLV), clone A8, has been shown to cause thymoma and infiltration of leukemic cells to organs at 7-8 weeks post-infection in rats with a more rapid progression than clone 57. We have previously reported that the determinant for induction of aggressive leukemia in rats is located in the ClaI-AatII fragment containing the long terminal repeat (LTR) and the 5' half of the 5' leader sequence of A8 virus. Further studies of chimeric viruses restricted the determinant for the induction of thymoma to only the 0.6-kb ClaI-KpnI fragment of A8. This fragment contains a 0.1 kb region of the 3' terminus of the env gene, the intergenic region, the U3, and the 5' half of the R region in the LTR. Major differences in the fragment between A8 and 57 viruses were found in the U3 region, especially in the enhancer motifs. These results indicate that the enhancer region of A8-LTR contributes to the manifestation of thymoma with rapid progression in rats.
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- Sayaka Takase-Yoden
- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
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Fukumitsu H, Takase-Yoden S, Watanabe R. Neuropathology of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis modified by retroviral infection. Neuropathology 2002; 22:280-9. [PMID: 12564768 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1789.2002.00453.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The A8 virus is a molecular clone of the neuropathogenic FrC6 virus derived from the Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV). To elucidate the effects of A8 virus-infection on immune-mediated diseases in the central nervous system, we investigated the development of acute and monophasic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in A8 virus-infected Lewis rats. In EAE rats after A8 virus infection (A8-EAE), many inflammatory cells were found in the gray matter including the frontal lobe, where almost no inflammatory cells were found in rats with EAE alone. The modified distribution of inflammatory cells was not dependent on the ages of A8 virus-infected rats, although the frequency of the modified distribution was reduced in older rats. The chimeric virus Rec2, which contains the pol and env genes of 57 virus on the background of A8 and does not induce spongiform degeneration in the CNS, caused the same distributional modification of inflammatory cells in the rats with EAE as in A8-EAE rats. Furthermore, the incidence and intensity of spongiform degeneration, thymoma and splenomegaly caused by A8 virus were reduced by the induction of EAE.
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Kubo Y, Ono T, Ogura M, Ishimoto A, Amanuma H. A glycosylation-defective variant of the ecotropic murine retrovirus receptor is expressed in rat XC cells. Virology 2002; 303:338-44. [PMID: 12490395 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2002.1641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The XC rat sarcoma cell line undergoes extensive cell-to-cell fusion (syncytium formation) after infection with ecotropic murine leukemia viruses (MLVs) and is frequently used to titrate these viruses. This cell line is unique in its response to the ecotropic MLV envelope (Env) protein in that it undergoes syncytium formation with cells expressing Env protein containing R peptide (R+ Env), which is known to suppress the fusogenic potential of the Env protein in other susceptible cells. To assess whether this property of the XC cell line arises from differences in its ecotropic MLV receptor, CAT1, we isolated CAT1 cDNA clones from XC cells. A variant CAT1 (xcCAT1) was found together with the wild-type rat CAT1 (rCAT1). xcCAT1 cDNA encodes a protein with a single amino acid change that destroys a conserved N-linked glycosylation site proximal to the Env-binding motif. We found that xcCAT1 expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells undergoes less glycosylation than rCAT1 and that the expression of xcCAT1 rendered the CHO cells more susceptible to infection with Moloney MLV. Thus, N-glycosylation negatively regulates the receptor activity of rCAT1. This is supported by the observation that treatment of rat F10 cells with the N-glycosylation inhibitor tunicamycin enhanced their susceptibility to Mo-MLV. However, xcCAT1-expressing CHO cells did not fuse with 293T cells expressing R+ Env, indicating that xcCAT1 expression is not sufficient to induce the XC cell-specific characteristic of forming syncytia in response to R+ Env.
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- Yoshinao Kubo
- Molecular Cell Science Laboratory, RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Yang F, Seamon JA, Roth MJ. Mutational analysis of the N-terminus of Moloney murine leukemia virus integrase. Virology 2001; 291:32-45. [PMID: 11878874 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.1218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The retroviral integrase (IN) carries out the integration of viral DNA into the host genome. The IN protein consists of three domains: the N-terminal HHCC motif, the catalytic core region, and the C-terminus. The Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV) IN encodes a unique 45-amino-acid domain N-terminal to the HHCC motif. The function of the N-terminus of M-MuLV IN was studied through deletional and mutational analyses. The IN 1-105 domain was dissected into two halves expressing either the unique N-terminus or the HHCC domain. Although the parental IN 1-105 could functionally complement the core-C-terminus for integration reactions, neither half of the N-terminus was sufficient. Partial complementation of strand transfer, but not 3prime prime or minute processing, could be obtained through mixing the two halves. The dimerization of the M-MuLV N-terminus was dependent on the expression of the intact 1-105. Critical basic amino acids within the HHCC domain which are required for 3' processing and strand transfer reactions were identified through alanine mutagenesis. Loss of in vitro strand transfer activity correlated with loss of viral titer in vivo for this cluster of basic amino acids within the HHCC domain.
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- F Yang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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Takase-Yoden S, Watanabe R. Distribution of ecotropic retrovirus receptor protein in rat brains detected by immunohistochemistry. J Gen Virol 2001; 82:1815-1820. [PMID: 11457986 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-82-8-1815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Friend murine leukaemia virus (FrMLV) FrC6 clone A8 causes spongiform degeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) of newborn but not 3-week-old rats. To assess whether expression of the ecotropic MLV receptor (CAT-1) in the CNS correlates with the pathogenicity of the A8 virus, we generated an anti-CAT-1 antibody raised against a synthetic peptide that corresponds to the carboxyl-terminal amino acid sequence of CAT-1. In the CNS of newborn and 3 to 4-week-old rats, a strong immunoreactivity against the antibody was detected in most of the endothelial cells. However, almost no expression of CAT-1 was detected in the CNS of 21-week-old rats. In newborn rats, many parenchymal cells in the brain as well as the vascular wall expressed CAT-1 antigen. These findings suggest that retrovirus receptor-bearing glial cells contribute to the neuropathogenesis of MLV, including clone A8, which induces spongiosis in rats only when inoculated into newborns.
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- Sayaka Takase-Yoden
- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan1
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- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Tangi-cho 1-236, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan1
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Tanaka A, Saida K, Andoh M, Maeda K, Kai K. At least four non-env factors that reside in the LTR, in the 5'-non-coding region, in gag and in part of pol affect neuropathogenicity of PVC-441 murine leukemia virus (MuLV). Virus Res 2000; 69:17-30. [PMID: 10989182 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1702(00)00166-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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PVC-441 murine leukemia virus (MuLV) is neuropathogenic in F344 rats. Recently, an infectious DNA clone was isolated and its nucleotide sequence was determined (J. Virol. 72: 3423-3426. 1998). To identify the viral determinants of neuropathogenicity of the molecularly cloned PVC-441 MuLV, chimeras were constructed between PVC-441 MuLV and F-MuLV clones at appropriate restriction enzyme sites that divide the viral genome approximately in LTR-non-coding, gag-, pol-, and env-gene regions. Results indicated that the LTR-non-coding and the gag-gene regions of PVC-441 MuLV affected independently the neuropathogenicity in combination with the env gene region as evidenced clinically and pathologically. Studies on the distribution of vacuolar degeneration suggested that the pons and cervical spinal cord areas were the primary targets and the large brain was the latest target of PVC-441 MuLV. Further studies with chimeric viruses that were formed in the LTR-non-coding and the gag gene regions revealed that at least four factors affected the neuropathogenicity of PVC-441 MuLV. Two factors were found in the U3, and R-U5-5'-non-coding regions, and at least two factors in the gag gene region that contained the N-terminal part of the pol gene. Among these factors, at least two factors seemed to be 'cis-acting' from each other
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MESH Headings
- 5' Untranslated Regions
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chimera/genetics
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Female
- Friend murine leukemia virus/genetics
- Friend murine leukemia virus/pathogenicity
- Genes, Viral
- Genes, env
- Genes, gag
- Genes, pol
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/pathogenicity
- Leukemia, Experimental/etiology
- Male
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nervous System Diseases/etiology
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred F344
- Retroviridae Infections/etiology
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Terminal Repeat Sequences
- Tumor Virus Infections/etiology
- Virulence/genetics
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- A Tanaka
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
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Takase-Yoden S, Watanabe R. Contribution of virus-receptor interaction to distinct viral proliferation of neuropathogenic and nonneuropathogenic murine leukemia viruses in rat glial cells. J Virol 1999; 73:4461-4. [PMID: 10196347 PMCID: PMC104233 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.5.4461-4464.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The efficiency of receptor-mediated entry of pseudotyped virus carrying the surface protein (SU) of clone A8, a neuropathogenic variant of Friend murine leukemia virus (FrMLV), to rat glial cell line F10 was 1 order of magnitude greater than that of pseudotyped virus carrying SU of nonneuropathogenic FrMLV clone 57. Introduction of the gene coding for ecotropic MLV receptor on F10 cells (F10-ecoR) into SIRC cells, which are naturally resistant to FrMLV infection, also revealed the difference in receptor recognition between the A8 and the 57 viruses. Our results show that the difference in receptor utilization between A8-SU and 57-SU only partially explains the 3-order-of-magnitude difference in proliferation between A8 and 57 viruses in F10 cells.
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- S Takase-Yoden
- Institute of Life Science, Soka University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8577, Japan.
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Tanaka A, Oka K, Tanaka K, Jinno A, Ruscetti SK, Kai K. The entire nucleotide sequence of friend-related and paralysis-inducing PVC-441 murine leukemia virus (MuLV) and its comparison with those of PVC-211 MuLV and Friend MuLV. J Virol 1998; 72:3423-6. [PMID: 9525674 PMCID: PMC109840 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.4.3423-3426.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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PVC-441 murine leukemia virus (MuLV) is a member of the PVC group of Friend MuLV (F-MuLV)-derived neuropathogenic retroviruses. In order to determine the molecular basis for the difference in neuropathogenicity between PVC-441 and the previously characterized PVC-211 MuLVs, the entire nucleotide sequence of PVC-441 MuLV was determined and compared with those of PVC-211 and F-MuLV. The results suggest that PVC-441 and PVC-211 MuLVs were formed as a result of random mutations of F-MuLV and developed differently. The distinct pathogenicities of PVC-441 and PVC-211 MuLVs were maintained in the viruses regenerated from their molecular clones, and the sequences responsible for the pathological differences observed can be localized to the env gene. The amino acid sequence of PVC-441 deduced from its nucleotide sequence revealed a number of differences from PVC-211, the most striking of which was a difference at position 129 of the SU proteins in the two viruses. Host range studies with a brain capillary endothelial cell line (RTEC-6) and Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO-K1) revealed that PVC-441, like PVC-211, could infect these cells but its efficiency of infection was lower than that of PVC-211. These results may account for the difference in neuropathogenicity between PVC-441 and PVC-211.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- CHO Cells
- Cricetinae
- DNA, Viral
- Friend murine leukemia virus/genetics
- Friend murine leukemia virus/pathogenicity
- Gene Products, env/genetics
- Gene Products, env/physiology
- Genes, gag
- Genes, pol
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/pathogenicity
- Leukemia, Experimental/virology
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Paralysis/virology
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred F344
- Retroviridae Infections/virology
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tumor Virus Infections/virology
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- A Tanaka
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi City, Japan
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