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meng X, Zhu X, Alfred N, Zhang Z. Identification of amino acid residues involved in the interaction between peste-des-petits-ruminants virus haemagglutinin protein and cellular receptors. J Gen Virol 2020; 101:242-251. [PMID: 31859612 PMCID: PMC7416607 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV) haemagglutinin (H) protein mediates binding to cellular receptors and then initiates virus entry. To identify the key residues of PPRV H (Hv) protein of the Nigeria 75/1 strain involved in binding to receptors, interaction of the Hv and mutated Hv (mHv) proteins with receptors (SLAM and Nectin 4) and their mutants (mSLAM1, mSLAM2, mSLAM3 and mNectin 4) was investigated using surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRi) and coimmunoprecipitation (co-IP) assays. The results showed that the Hv protein failed to interact with mSLAM3, but interacted at a strong or medium intensity with SLAM, mSLAM2, Nectin 4 and mNectin 4, and at a low level with mSLAM1. The mHv protein was unable to interact with SLAM and its mutants, but bound to Nectin 4 and mNectin 4 with medium and weak intensity, respectively. Further analysis showed that the Hv protein could precipitate mSLAM1, mSLAM2 and mNectin 4, but not mSLAM3. The mHv protein failed to coprecipitate with SLAM and its mutants. The binding activities of mNectin 4 and Nectin 4 to mHv were less than 30.36 and 51.94 % of the wild-type levels, respectively. Based on the results obtained, amino acids at positions R389, L464, I498, R503, R533, Y541, Y543, F552 and Y553 of H protein and I61, H62, L64, K76, K78, E123, H130, I210, A211, S226 and R227 in SLAM were identified to be essential for the specificity of H-SLAM interaction, while the critical residues of H-Nectin 4 interaction require further study. These findings would improve our understanding of the invasive mechanisms of PPRV.
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- Xuelian meng
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xujiaping 1, Yanchangpu, Chengguan District, Lanzhou 730046, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xujiaping 1, Yanchangpu, Chengguan District, Lanzhou 730046, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xujiaping 1, Yanchangpu, Chengguan District, Lanzhou 730046, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xujiaping 1, Yanchangpu, Chengguan District, Lanzhou 730046, PR China
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Meng X, Dou Y, Zhai J, Zhang H, Yan F, Shi X, Luo X, Li H, Cai X. Tissue distribution and expression of signaling lymphocyte activation molecule receptor to peste des petits ruminant virus in goats detected by real-time PCR. J Mol Histol 2011; 42:467-72. [PMID: 21863328 DOI: 10.1007/s10735-011-9352-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2011] [Accepted: 08/08/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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In the present study, we investigated the tissue distribution and expression of signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) in 40 tissues and organs of goats by real-time RT-PCR, in order to determine the role of these receptors in tissue tropism. SLAM mRNA was detected in all the samples investigated. The expression of SLAM mRNA was detected at high levels in spleen, mesenteric lymph node, hilar lymph node, mandibular lymph node, superficial cervical lymph node, nasal mucosa, duodenum, heart, gallbladder, thymus and blood; this is similar to the tissue tropism of peste des petits ruminant virus. However, it was surprising that expression of SLAM was low in lungs, colon and rectum which are the major sites of replication of PPRV. In addition, very low levels were detected in larynx, tongue and esophagus, which suggest the possible presence of an alternative receptor for PPRV. This study provided the first data on caprine SLAM for use in further studies of the pathogenesis of PPRV in goats.
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- Xuelian Meng
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Gansu Provincial Engineering and Technique Research Centre on Biological Detection, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xujiaping 1, Yanchangpu, Chengguan District, Lanzhou 730046, China
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Wild-type measles virus interferes with short-term engraftment of human CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells. J Virol 2011; 85:7710-8. [PMID: 21593150 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00532-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Transient lymphopenia is a hallmark of measles virus (MV)-induced immunosuppression. To address to what extent replenishment of the peripheral lymphocyte compartment from bone marrow (BM) progenitor/stem cells might be affected, we analyzed the interaction of wild-type MV with hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HS/PCs) and stroma cells in vitro. Infection of human CD34(+) HS/PCs or stroma cells with wild-type MV is highly inefficient yet noncytolytic. It occurs independently of CD150 in stroma cells but also in HS/PCs, where infection is established in CD34(+) CD150(-) and CD34(+) CD150(+) (in humans representing HS/PC oligopotent precursors) subsets. Stroma cells and HS/PCs can mutually transmit MV and may thereby create a possible niche for continuous viral exchange in the BM. Infected lymphocytes homing to this compartment may serve as sources for HS/PC or stroma cell infection, as reflected by highly efficient transmission of MV from both populations in cocultures with MV-infected B or T cells. Though MV exposure does not detectably affect the viability, expansion, and colony-forming activity of either CD150(+) or CD150(-) HS/PCs in vitro, it efficiently interferes with short- but not long-term hematopoietic reconstitution in NOD/SCID mice. Altogether, these findings support the hypothesis that MV accession of the BM compartment by infected lymphocytes may contribute to peripheral blood mononuclear cell lymphopenia at the level of BM suppression.
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Avota E, Gulbins E, Schneider-Schaulies S. DC-SIGN mediated sphingomyelinase-activation and ceramide generation is essential for enhancement of viral uptake in dendritic cells. PLoS Pathog 2011; 7:e1001290. [PMID: 21379338 PMCID: PMC3040670 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2010] [Accepted: 01/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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As pattern recognition receptor on dendritic cells (DCs), DC-SIGN binds carbohydrate structures on its pathogen ligands and essentially determines host pathogen interactions because it both skews T cell responses and enhances pathogen uptake for cis infection and/or T cell trans-infection. How these processes are initiated at the plasma membrane level is poorly understood. We now show that DC-SIGN ligation on DCs by antibodies, mannan or measles virus (MV) causes rapid activation of neutral and acid sphingomyelinases followed by accumulation of ceramides in the outer membrane leaflet. SMase activation is important in promoting DC-SIGN signaling, but also for enhancement of MV uptake into DCs. DC-SIGN-dependent SMase activation induces efficient, transient recruitment of CD150, which functions both as MV uptake receptor and microbial sensor, from an intracellular Lamp-1+ storage compartment shared with acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) within a few minutes. Subsequently, CD150 is displayed at the cell surface and co-clusters with DC-SIGN. Thus, DC-SIGN ligation initiates SMase-dependent formation of ceramide-enriched membrane microdomains which promote vertical segregation of CD150 from intracellular storage compartments along with ASM. Given the ability to promote receptor and signalosome co-segration into (or exclusion from) ceramide enriched microdomains which provide a favorable environment for membrane fusion, DC-SIGN-dependent SMase activation may be of general importance for modes and efficiency of pathogen uptake into DCs, and their routing to specific compartments, but also for modulating T cell responses. Dendritic cells (DCs) bear receptors specialized on recognition of patterns specific to pathogens (such as carbohydrates), which can either promote functional activation of these cells (such as TLRs), which renders them capable of efficiently presenting antigens to T cells, or, as DC-SIGN, endocytic uptake as essential for loading MHC molecules. Viruses such as HIV and measles virus (MV) exploit DC-SIGN for both their uptake into DCs and modulation of TLR signaling, yet how this is mechanistically exerted is poorly understood. We now show that DC-SIGN activates sphingomyelinases (SMases) which convert their sphingomyelin substrate into ceramides, thereby catalysing the formation of membrane platforms able to recruit and concentrate receptors and associated signaling components. We found DC-SIGN-dependent SMase activation as essential for DC-SIGN and thereby modulation of TLR signaling, but also for enhancement of MV uptake. This is mediated by a fast, transient recruitment of its entry receptor, CD150, from an intracellular storage compartment to the cell surface where it co-clusters in ceramide enriched platforms with DC-SIGN. The ability to segregate viral receptors into (or exclude them from) membrane microdomains, which, based on their biophysical properties, facilitate membrane fusion, proposes DC-SIGN-mediated SMAse activation as a central regulator of pathogen uptake into DCs.
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MESH Headings
- Antigen Presentation
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Antigens, CD/metabolism
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/genetics
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Ceramides/metabolism
- Dendritic Cells/metabolism
- Dendritic Cells/virology
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Immunoprecipitation
- Lectins, C-Type/genetics
- Lectins, C-Type/metabolism
- Measles
- Measles virus/genetics
- Measles virus/growth & development
- Measles virus/immunology
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Small Interfering/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism
- Receptors, Virus/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Signaling Lymphocytic Activation Molecule Family Member 1
- Sphingomyelin Phosphodiesterase/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes/virology
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Affiliation(s)
- Elita Avota
- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Essen, Essen, Germany
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Measles is an important cause of child mortality that has a seemingly paradoxical interaction with the immune system. In most individuals, the immune response is successful in eventually clearing measles virus (MV) infection and in establishing life-long immunity. However, infection is also associated with persistence of viral RNA and several weeks of immune suppression, including loss of delayed type hypersensitivity responses and increased susceptibility to secondary infections. The initial T-cell response includes CD8+ and T-helper 1 CD4+ T cells important for control of infectious virus. As viral RNA persists, there is a shift to a T-helper 2 CD4+ T-cell response that likely promotes B-cell maturation and durable antibody responses but may suppress macrophage activation and T-helper 1 responses to new infections. Suppression of mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferation can be induced by lymphocyte infection with MV or by lymphocyte exposure to a complex of the hemagglutinin and fusion surface glycoproteins without infection. Dendritic cells (DCs) are susceptible to infection and can transmit infection to lymphocytes. MV-infected DCs are unable to stimulate a mixed lymphocyte reaction and can induce lymphocyte unresponsiveness through expression of MV glycoproteins. Thus, multiple factors may contribute both to measles-induced immune suppression and to the establishment of durable protective immunity.
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- Diane E Griffin
- W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Measles virus infection of the CNS: human disease, animal models, and approaches to therapy. Med Microbiol Immunol 2010; 199:261-71. [PMID: 20390298 DOI: 10.1007/s00430-010-0153-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2010] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Viral infections of the central nervous system(CNS) mostly represent clinically important, often life-threatening complications of systemic viral infections. After acute measles, CNS complications may occur early (acute postinfectious measles encephalitis, APME) or after years of viral persistence (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, SSPE). In spite of a presumably functional cell-mediated immunity and high antiviral antibody titers, an immunological control of the CNS infection is not achieved in patients suffering from SSPE. There is still no specific therapy for acute complications and persistent MV infections of the CNS. Hamsters, rats, and (genetically unmodified and modified) mice have been used as model systems to study mechanisms of MV-induced CNS infections. Functional CD4+ and CD8+ T cells together with IFN-gamma are required to overcome the infection. With the help of recombinant measles viruses and mice expressing endogenous or transgenic receptors, interesting aspects such as receptor-dependent viral spread and viral determinants of virulence have been investigated. However, many questions concerning the lack of efficient immune control in the CNS are still open. Recent research opened new perspectives using specific antivirals such as short interfering RNA (siRNA) or small molecule inhibitors. Inspite of obvious hurdles, these treatments are the most promising approaches to future therapies.
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Measles virus-induced immunosuppression: from effectors to mechanisms. Med Microbiol Immunol 2010; 199:227-37. [DOI: 10.1007/s00430-010-0152-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2010] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Kato S, Ohgimoto S, Sharma LB, Kurazono S, Ayata M, Komase K, Takeda M, Takeuchi K, Ihara T, Ogura H. Reduced ability of hemagglutinin of the CAM-70 measles virus vaccine strain to use receptors CD46 and SLAM. Vaccine 2009; 27:3838-48. [PMID: 19490984 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2009] [Revised: 03/31/2009] [Accepted: 04/03/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The CAM-70 measles virus (MV) vaccine strain is currently used for vaccination against measles. We examined the fusion-inducing ability of the CAM-70 hemagglutinin (H) protein and found that it was impaired in both CD46- and signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM)-expressing cells. We also generated recombinant MVs possessing H genes derived from the CAM-70 strain. The CAM-70 H protein impaired viral growth in both CD46- and SLAM-expressing cells. In peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and monocyte-derived dendritic cells (Mo-DC), the CAM-70 strain did not grow efficiently. Infection with recombinant MVs revealed that impaired growth of the CAM-70 strain was attributed to the H gene only partly in PBL and largely in Mo-DC. Thus, impaired fusion-inducing ability of the H protein may be one of the underlying molecular mechanisms resulting in the attenuation of the CAM-70 strain.
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- Seiichi Kato
- Department of Virology, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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Ohishi K, Ando A, Suzuki R, Takishita K, Kawato M, Katsumata E, Ohtsu D, Okutsu K, Tokutake K, Miyahara H, Nakamura H, Murayama T, Maruyama T. Host-virus specificity of morbilliviruses predicted by structural modeling of the marine mammal SLAM, a receptor. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 2008; 33:227-41. [PMID: 19027953 DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2008.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/04/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) is thought to be a major cellular receptor for high-host specificity morbilliviruses, which cause devastating and highly infectious diseases in mammals. We determined the sequences of SLAM cDNA from five species of marine mammal, including two cetaceans, two pinnipeds and one sirenian, and generated three-dimensional models to understand the receptor-virus interaction. Twenty-one amino acid residues in the immunoglobulin-like V domains of the SLAMs were shown to bind the viral protein. Notably, the sequences from pinnipeds and dogs were highly homologous, which is consistent with the fact that canine distemper virus was previously shown to cause a mass die-off of seals. Among these twenty-one residues, eight (63, 66, 68, 72, 84, 119, 121 and 130) were shared by animal groups susceptible to a particular morbillivirus species. This set of residues appears to determine host-virus specificity and may be useful for risk estimation for morbilliviruses.
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- Kazue Ohishi
- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
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Schneider-Schaulies S, Schneider-Schaulies J. Measles virus-induced immunosuppression. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2008; 330:243-69. [PMID: 19203113 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70617-5_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Immunosuppression is the major cause of infant death associated with acute measles and therefore of substantial clinical importance. Major hallmarks of this generalized modulation of immune functions are (1) lymphopenia, (2) a prolonged cytokine imbalance consistent with suppression of cellular immunity to secondary infections, and (3) silencing of peripheral blood lymphocytes, which cannot expand in response to ex vivo stimulation. Lymphopenia results from depletion, which can occur basically at any stage of lymphocyte development, and evidently, expression of the major MV receptor CD150 plays an important role in targeting these cells. Virus transfer to T cells is thought to be mediated by dendritic cells (DCs), which are considered central to the induction of T cell silencing and functional skewing. As a consequence of MV interaction, viability and functional differentiation of DCs and thereby their expression pattern of co-stimulatory molecules and soluble mediators are modulated. Moreover, MV proteins expressed by these cells actively silence T cells by interfering with signaling pathways essential for T cell activation.
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- S Schneider-Schaulies
- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany.
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Chapter 4 Receptor Interactions, Tropism, and Mechanisms Involved in Morbillivirus‐Induced Immunomodulation. Adv Virus Res 2008; 71:173-205. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(08)00004-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Bonami F, Rudd PA, von Messling V. Disease duration determines canine distemper virus neurovirulence. J Virol 2007; 81:12066-70. [PMID: 17699577 PMCID: PMC2168775 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00818-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The Morbillivirus hemagglutinin (H) protein mediates attachment to the target cell. To evaluate its contribution to canine distemper virus neurovirulence, we exchanged the H proteins of the wild-type strains 5804P and A75 and assessed the pathogenesis of the chimeric viruses in ferrets. Both strains are lethal to ferrets; however, 5804P causes a 2-week disease without neurological signs, whereas A75 is associated with a longer disease course and neurological involvement. We observed that both H proteins supported neuroinvasion and the subsequent development of clinical neurological signs if given enough time, demonstrating that disease duration is the main neurovirulence determinant.
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- François Bonami
- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, University of Quebec, 531 boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Quebec, Canada
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Shishkova Y, Harms H, Krohne G, Avota E, Schneider-Schaulies S. Immune synapses formed with measles virus-infected dendritic cells are unstable and fail to sustain T cell activation. Cell Microbiol 2007; 9:1974-86. [PMID: 17394561 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.00928.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Interaction with dendritic cells (DCs) is considered as central to immunosuppression induced by viruses, including measles virus (MV). Commonly, viral infection of DCs abrogates their ability to promote T cell expansion, yet underlying mechanisms at a cellular level are undefined. We found that MV-infected DCs only subtly differed from LPS-matured with regard to integrin activation, acquisition of a migratory phenotype and motility. Similarly, the organization of MV-DC/T cell interfaces was consistent with that of functional immune synapses with regard to CD3 clustering and MHC class II surface recruitment. The majority of MV-DC/T cell conjugates was, however, unstable and only promoted abortive T cell activation. Thus, MV-infected DCs retain activities required for initiating, but not sustaining T cell conjugation and activation. This is partially rescued if surface expression of the MV glycoproteins on DCs is abolished by infection with a recombinant MV encoding VSV G protein instead, indicating that these contribute directly to synapse destabilization and thereby act as effectors of T cell inhibition.
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- Yoanna Shishkova
- University of Würzburg, Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, Versbacher Street 7, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany
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Ohno S, Ono N, Seki F, Takeda M, Kura S, Tsuzuki T, Yanagi Y. Measles virus infection of SLAM (CD150) knockin mice reproduces tropism and immunosuppression in human infection. J Virol 2006; 81:1650-9. [PMID: 17135325 PMCID: PMC1797545 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02134-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The human signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM, also called CD150), a regulator of antigen-driven T-cell responses and macrophage functions, acts as a cellular receptor for measles virus (MV), and its V domain is necessary and sufficient for receptor function. We report here the generation of SLAM knockin mice in which the V domain of mouse SLAM was replaced by that of human SLAM. The chimeric SLAM had an expected distribution and normal function in the knockin mice. Splenocytes from the SLAM knockin mice permitted the in vitro growth of a virulent MV strain but not that of the Edmonston vaccine strain. Unlike in vitro infection, MV could grow only in SLAM knockin mice that also lacked the type I interferon receptor (IFNAR). After intraperitoneal or intranasal inoculation, MV was detected in the spleen and lymph nodes throughout the body but not in the thymus. Notably, the virus appeared first in the mediastinal lymph node after intranasal inoculation. Splenocytes from MV-infected IFNAR(-/-) SLAM knockin mice showed suppression of proliferative responses to concanavalin A. Thus, MV infection of SLAM knockin mice reproduces lymphotropism and immunosuppression in human infection, serving as a useful small animal model for measles.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD/chemistry
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Cells, Cultured
- Concanavalin A/pharmacology
- Immunosuppression Therapy
- Lymph Nodes/virology
- Lymphocytes/immunology
- Lymphocytes/virology
- Measles/immunology
- Measles virus/physiology
- Mediastinum
- Mice/genetics
- Mice, Transgenic
- Models, Animal
- Protein Structure, Tertiary/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/chemistry
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Virus/chemistry
- Receptors, Virus/genetics
- Signaling Lymphocytic Activation Molecule Family Member 1
- Spleen/virology
- Virus Replication
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- Shinji Ohno
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
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Measles virus (MV) is a member of the genus Morbillivirus in the family Paramyxoviridae. Clinical isolates of MV use signaling lymphocyte activating molecule (SLAM) as a cellular receptor. SLAM is mainly expressed on immune cells such as immature thymocytes, activated lymphocytes and mature dendritic cells. This distribution of SLAM can account for the lymphotropism of MV. On the other hand, laboratory strains of MV use CD46 as an alternative receptor, through amino acid change(s) in the receptor binding hemagglutinin protein. Recently, several reports imply the existence of the cellular receptor(s) other than SLAM and CD46. In this review, we discuss the receptor usage of MV and its adaptation to cultured cells.
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- Shinji Ohno
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Japan.
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Ohgimoto K, Ohgimoto S, Ihara T, Mizuta H, Ishido S, Ayata M, Ogura H, Hotta H. Difference in production of infectious wild-type measles and vaccine viruses in monocyte-derived dendritic cells. Virus Res 2006; 123:1-8. [PMID: 16959355 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2006.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2006] [Revised: 07/01/2006] [Accepted: 07/12/2006] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Macrophages (Mø) and dendritic cells (DC) are thought to be targets of measles virus (MeV) at the early stage of infection. We compared the growth of Edmonston-derived vaccine strains and fresh clinical isolates of MeV in monocytes, monocyte-derived granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-induced Mø (GM-Mø) and in monocyte-derived DC (Mo-DC). Neither vaccine strains nor fresh isolates thrived in monocytes and GM-Mø and no differences were evident among them. On the other hand, infectious virus production was robust in Mo-DC infected with fresh isolates, but below the limits of detection in those infected with vaccine strains. Although the vaccine strains infected Mo-DC and replicated comparably with the fresh isolates, they accumulated far less matrix (M) protein. This was attributed to a difference in the stability of M protein produced in Mo-DC between the strains. Impaired production of infectious viruses in DC may be one cause of vaccine strain attenuation.
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- Kaori Ohgimoto
- Division of Microbiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Schneider-Schaulies S, Dittmer U. Silencing T cells or T-cell silencing: concepts in virus-induced immunosuppression. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:1423-1438. [PMID: 16690907 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81713-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The ability to evade or suppress the host's immune response is a property of many viruses, indicating that this provides an advantage for the pathogen to spread efficiently or even to establish a persistent infection. The type and complexity of its genome and cell tropism but also its preferred type of host interaction are important parameters which define the strategy of a given virus to modulate the immune system in an optimal manner. Because they take a central position in any antiviral defence, the activation and function of T cells are the predominant target of many viral immunosuppressive regimens. In this review, two different strategies whereby this could be achieved are summarized. Retroviruses can infect professional antigen-presenting cells and impair their maturation and functional properties. This coincides with differentiation and expansion of silencing T cells referred to as regulatory T cells with suppressive activity, mainly to CD8+ effector T cells. The second concept, outlined for measles virus, is a direct, contact-mediated silencing of T cells which acquire a transient paralytic state.
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- Institut für Virologie des Universitätsklinikums Essen, D-45122 Essen, Germany
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de Witte L, Abt M, Schneider-Schaulies S, van Kooyk Y, Geijtenbeek TBH. Measles virus targets DC-SIGN to enhance dendritic cell infection. J Virol 2006; 80:3477-86. [PMID: 16537615 PMCID: PMC1440360 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.80.7.3477-3486.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are involved in the pathogenesis of measles virus (MV) infection by inducing immune suppression and possibly spreading the virus from the respiratory tract to lymphatic tissues. It is becoming evident that DC function can be modulated by the involvement of different receptors in pathogen interaction. Therefore, we have investigated the relative contributions of different MV-specific receptors on DCs to MV uptake into and infection of these cells. DCs express the MV receptors CD46 and CD150, and we demonstrate that the C-type lectin DC-specific intercellular adhesion molecule 3-grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN) is a novel receptor for laboratory-adapted and wild-type MV strains. The ligands for DC-SIGN are both MV glycoproteins F and H. In contrast to CD46 and CD150, DC-SIGN does not support MV entry, since DC-SIGN does not confer susceptibility when stably expressed in CHO cells. However, DC-SIGN is important for the infection of immature DCs with MV, since both attachment and infection of immature DCs with MV are blocked in the presence of DC-SIGN inhibitors. Our data demonstrate that DC-SIGN is crucial as an attachment receptor to enhance CD46/CD150-mediated infection of DCs in cis. Moreover, MV might not only target DC-SIGN to infect DCs but may also use DC-SIGN for viral transmission and immune suppression.
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- Lot de Witte
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, V U University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Zilliox MJ, Parmigiani G, Griffin DE. Gene expression patterns in dendritic cells infected with measles virus compared with other pathogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:3363-8. [PMID: 16492729 PMCID: PMC1413941 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0511345103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Gene expression patterns supply insight into complex biological networks that provide the organization in which viruses and host cells interact. Measles virus (MV) is an important human pathogen that induces transient immunosuppression followed by life-long immunity in infected individuals. Dendritic cells (DCs) are potent antigen-presenting cells that initiate the immune response to pathogens and are postulated to play a role in MV-induced immunosuppression. To better understand the interaction of MV with DCs, we examined the gene expression changes that occur over the first 24 h after infection and compared these changes to those induced by other viral, bacterial, and fungal pathogens. There were 1,553 significantly regulated genes with nearly 60% of them down-regulated. MV-infected DCs up-regulated a core of genes associated with maturation of antigen-presenting function and migration to lymph nodes but also included genes for IFN-regulatory factors 1 and 7, 2'5' oligoadenylate synthetase, Mx, and TNF superfamily proteins 2, 7, 9, and 10 (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand). MV induced genes for IFNs, ILs, chemokines, antiviral proteins, histones, and metallothioneins, many of which were also induced by influenza virus, whereas genes for protein synthesis and oxidative phosphorylation were down-regulated. Unique to MV were the induction of genes for a broad array of IFN-alphas and the failure to up-regulate dsRNA-dependent protein kinase. These results provide a modular view of common and unique DC responses after infection and suggest mechanisms by which MV may modulate the immune response.
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- Michael J. Zilliox
- *The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and
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- Departments of Oncology, Biostatistics, and Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- *The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and
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Plattet P, Rivals JP, Zuber B, Brunner JM, Zurbriggen A, Wittek R. The fusion protein of wild-type canine distemper virus is a major determinant of persistent infection. Virology 2005; 337:312-26. [PMID: 15893783 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2005] [Revised: 02/10/2005] [Accepted: 04/08/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The wild-type A75/17 canine distemper virus (CDV) strain induces a persistent infection in the central nervous system but infects cell lines very inefficiently. In contrast, the genetically more distant Onderstepoort CDV vaccine strain (OP-CDV) induces extensive syncytia formation. Here, we investigated the roles of wild-type fusion (F(WT)) and attachment (H(WT)) proteins in Vero cells expressing, or not, the canine SLAM receptor by transfection experiments and by studying recombinants viruses expressing different combinations of wild-type and OP-CDV glycoproteins. We show that low fusogenicity is not due to a defect of the envelope proteins to reach the cell surface and that H(WT) determines persistent infection in a receptor-dependent manner, emphasizing the role of SLAM as a potent enhancer of fusogenicity. However, importantly, F(WT) reduced cell-to-cell fusion independently of the cell surface receptor, thus demonstrating that the fusion protein of the neurovirulent A75/17-CDV strain plays a key role in determining persistent infection.
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- Philippe Plattet
- Institut de Biotechnologie, University of Lausanne, Bâtiment de Biologie, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Rinderpest virus (RPV) is a morbillivirus, related closely to the human pathogen Measles virus (MV). Although cell culture-adapted strains of RPV can infect many kinds of cell from different hosts, one such strain has previously been shown to have a detectable preference for cells expressing the MV receptor CD150 (SLAM), a protein found only on certain types of activated T cells, B cells and dendritic cells. Here, it is shown that the wild-type, virulent parent of the most common vaccine strain of RPV requires CD150 as a receptor, whilst the cell culture-adapted vaccine strain has acquired the ability to use heparan sulphate as an alternative receptor.
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- Michael D Baron
- Institute for Animal Health, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
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Santibanez S, Niewiesk S, Heider A, Schneider-Schaulies J, Berbers GAM, Zimmermann A, Halenius A, Wolbert A, Deitemeier I, Tischer A, Hengel H. Probing neutralizing-antibody responses against emerging measles viruses (MVs): immune selection of MV by H protein-specific antibodies? J Gen Virol 2005; 86:365-374. [PMID: 15659756 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80467-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Measles virus (MV) infection and vaccination induce long-lasting immunity and neutralizing-antibody responses that are directed against the MV haemagglutinin (H) and the fusion (F) protein. A new MV genotype, D7, emerged recently in western Germany and rapidly replaced the long-term endemically circulating genotypes C2 and D6. Analysis of the H gene of C2, D6, D7 and vaccine viruses revealed uniform sequences for each genotype. Interestingly, a consistent exchange of seven distinct amino acids in the D7 H was observed when compared with residues shared between C2, D6 and vaccine viruses, and one exchange (D416→N) in the D7 H was associated with an additionalN-linked glycosylation. In contrast, the F gene is highly conserved between MVs of these genotypes. To test whether the D7 H protein escapes from antibody responses that were raised against earlier circulating or vaccine viruses, the neutralizing capacity of mAbs recognizing seven distinct domains on the H of an Edmonston-related MV was compared. The mAbs revealed a selective and complete loss of two neutralizing epitopes on the D7 H when compared with C2, D6 and vaccine viruses. To assess whether these alterations of the D7 H affect the neutralizing capacity of polyclonal B-cell responses, genotype-specific antisera were produced in cotton rats. However, no significant genotype-dependent difference was found. Likewise, human sera obtained from vaccinees (n=7) and convalescents (n=6) did not distinguish between the MV genotypes. Although the hypothesis of selection of D7 viruses by pre-existing neutralizing antibodies is compatible with the differing pattern of neutralizing epitopes on the H protein, it was not confirmed by the results of MV neutralization with polyclonal sera.
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- Sabine Santibanez
- WHO Measles/Rubella European RRL and NRC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- WHO Measles/Rubella European RRL and NRC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- WHO Measles/Rubella European RRL and NRC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- WHO Measles/Rubella European RRL and NRC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- WHO Measles/Rubella European RRL and NRC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- WHO Measles/Rubella European RRL and NRC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- WHO Measles/Rubella European RRL and NRC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
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- WHO Measles/Rubella European RRL and NRC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
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Klagge IM, Abt M, Fries B, Schneider-Schaulies S. Impact of measles virus dendritic-cell infection on Th-cell polarization in vitro. J Gen Virol 2004; 85:3239-3247. [PMID: 15483237 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80125-0] [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] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Interference of measles virus (MV) with dendritic-cell (DC) functions and deregulation of T-cell differentiation have been proposed to be central to the profound suppression of immune responses to secondary infections up to several weeks after the acute disease. To address the impact of MV infection on the ability of DCs to promote Th-cell differentiation, an in vitro system was used where uninfected, tumour necrosis factor alpha/interleukin (IL) 1 beta-primed DCs were co-cultured with CD45RO(-) T cells in the presence of conditioned media from MV-infected DCs primed under neutral or DC-polarizing conditions. It was found that supernatants of DCs infected with an MV vaccine strain strongly promoted Th1 differentation, whereas those obtained from wild-type MV-infected DCs generated a mixed Th1/Th0 response, irrespective of the conditions used for DC priming. Th-cell commitment in this system did not correlate with the production of IL12 p70, IL18 or IL23. Thus, a combination of these or other, as yet undefined, soluble factors is produced upon MV infection of DCs that strongly promotes Th1/Th0 differentiation.
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- Ingo M Klagge
- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany
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Despite the extensive media exposure that viruses such as West Nile, Norwalk, and Ebola have received lately, and the emerging threat that old pathogens may reappear as new agents of terrorism, measles virus (MV) persists as one of the leading causes of death by infectious agents worldwide, approaching the annual mortality rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1. For most MV victims, fatality is indirect: Virus-induced transient immunosuppression predisposes the individual to opportunistic infections that, left untreated, can result in mortality. In rare cases, MV may also cause progressive neurodegenerative disease. During the past five years (1998-2002), development of animal models and the application of reverse genetics and immunological assays have collectively contributed to major progress in our understanding of MV biology and pathogenesis. Nevertheless, questions and controversies remain that are the basis for future research. In this review, major advances and current debates are discussed, including MV receptor usage, the cellular basis of immunosuppression, the suspected role of MV in "nonviral" diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Paget's disease, and the controversy surrounding MV vaccine safety.
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- Glenn F Rall
- Division of Basic Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 7701 Burholme Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, USA.
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Ohno S, Seki F, Ono N, Yanagi Y. Histidine at position 61 and its adjacent amino acid residues are critical for the ability of SLAM (CD150) to act as a cellular receptor for measles virus. J Gen Virol 2003; 84:2381-2388. [PMID: 12917459 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19248-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Signalling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM, also known as CD150), a membrane glycoprotein involved in lymphocyte activation, has two extracellular immunoglobulin superfamily domains, V and C2. It has been shown previously that human SLAM is a cellular receptor for measles virus (MV) and that its V domain is necessary and sufficient for receptor function. Although mouse SLAM has functional and structural similarity to human SLAM, it hardly acts as a receptor for MV. By producing human/mouse chimeric molecules and assessing their receptor function with a vesicular stomatitis virus pseudotype assay, the region at amino acid positions 58-67 was found to be critically responsible for the difference in MV receptor function between human and mouse SLAMs. Exchange of this region allowed mouse SLAM to act as a receptor for MV, almost comparable to human SLAM. Among three amino acid differences (positions 60, 61 and 63) in this region, histidine 61 present in human SLAM was most significant, but combined substitutions with this residue and one or both of isoleucine 60 and valine 63 increased further the receptor activity of mouse SLAM. On the other hand, converse substitution at position 61 compromised receptor function of human SLAM. Thus, histidine 61 and its adjacent residues at positions 60 and 63 are critical for SLAM to act as a receptor for MV. Notably, the pseudotype assay indicated that residues at these three positions are also critical for the function of SLAM as a receptor for canine distemper virus.
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- Shinji Ohno
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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Seki F, Ono N, Yamaguchi R, Yanagi Y. Efficient isolation of wild strains of canine distemper virus in Vero cells expressing canine SLAM (CD150) and their adaptability to marmoset B95a cells. J Virol 2003; 77:9943-50. [PMID: 12941904 PMCID: PMC224612 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.18.9943-9950.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have previously shown that canine signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM; also known as CD150) acts as a cellular receptor for canine distemper virus (CDV). In this study, we established Vero cells stably expressing canine SLAM (Vero.DogSLAMtag cells). Viruses were isolated in Vero.DogSLAMtag cells one day after inoculation with spleen samples from five out of seven dogs with distemper. By contrast, virus isolation with reportedly sensitive marmoset B95a cells was only successful from three diseased animals at 7 to 10 days after inoculation, and no virus was recovered from any dogs when Vero cells were used for isolation. The CDV strain isolated in Vero.DogSLAMtag cells did not cause cytopathic effects in B95a and human SLAM-expressing Vero cells, whereas the strain isolated in B95a cells from the same dog did so in canine or human SLAM-expressing Vero cells as well as B95a cells. There were two amino acid differences in the hemagglutinin sequence between these strains. Cell fusion analysis after expression of envelope proteins and vesicular stomatitis virus pseudotype assay showed that their hemagglutinins were responsible for the difference in cell tropism between them. Site-directed mutagenesis indicated that glutamic acid to lysine substitution at position 530 of the hemagglutinin was required for the adaptation to the usage of marmoset SLAM. Our results indicate that Vero cells stably expressing canine SLAM are highly sensitive to CDV in clinical specimens and that only a single amino acid substitution in the hemagglutinin can allow the virus to adapt to marmoset SLAM.
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- Fumio Seki
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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Shingai M, Ayata M, Ishida H, Matsunaga I, Katayama Y, Seya T, Tatsuo H, Yanagi Y, Ogura H. Receptor use by vesicular stomatitis virus pseudotypes with glycoproteins of defective variants of measles virus isolated from brains of patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. J Gen Virol 2003; 84:2133-2143. [PMID: 12867645 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19091-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The vaccine or Vero cell-adapted strains of measles virus (MV) have been reported to use CD46 as a cell entry receptor, while lymphotropic MVs preferentially use the signalling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM or CD150). In contrast to the virus obtained from patients with acute measles, little is known about the receptor that is used by defective variants of MV isolated from patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). The receptor-binding properties of SSPE strains of MV were analysed using vesicular stomatitis virus pseudotypes expressing the envelope glycoproteins of SSPE strains of MV. Such pseudotype viruses could use SLAM but not CD46 for entry. The pseudotype viruses with SSPE envelope glycoproteins could enter Vero cells, which do not express SLAM. In addition, their entry was not blocked by the monoclonal antibody to CD46, pointing to another entry receptor for SSPE strains on Vero cells. Furthermore, the unknown receptor(s), distinct from SLAM and CD46, may be present on cell lines derived from lymphoid and neural cells. Biochemical characterization of the receptor present on Vero cells and SK-N-SH neuroblastoma cells was consistent with a glycoprotein. Identification of additional entry receptors for MV will provide new insights into the mechanism of spread of MV in the central nervous system and possible reasons for differences between MVs isolated from patients with acute measles and SSPE.
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- Masashi Shingai
- Department of Virology, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
- Department of Virology, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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- Department of Immunology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka 537-8511, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Osaka City University Medical School, Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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Schneider-Schaulies S, Klagge IM, ter Meulen V. Dendritic cells and measles virus infection. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2003; 276:77-101. [PMID: 12797444 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-06508-2_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Measles is a major cause of childhood mortality in developing countries which is mainly attributed to the ability of measles virus (MV) to suppress general immune responses. Paradoxically, virus-specific immunity is efficiently induced, which leads to viral clearance from the host and confers long-lasting protection against reinfection. As sensitisers of pathogen encounter and instructors of the adaptive immune response, dendritic cells (DCs) may play a decisive role in the induction and quality of the MV-specific immune activation. The ability of MV wild-type strains in particular to infect DCs in vitro is dearly established, and the receptor binding haemagglutinin protein of these viruses essentially determines this particular tropism. DC maturation as induced early after MV infection is likely to be of crucial importance for the induction of MV-specific immunity. DCs may, however, be instrumental in MV-induced immunosuppression. (1) T cell depletion could be brought about by DC-T cell fusion or TRAIL-mediated induction of apoptosis. (2) Inhibition of stimulated IL-12 production from MV-infected DCs might affect T cell responses in qualitative terms in favouring Th2 and suppressing Th1 responses. (3) The viral glycoprotein complex expressed at high levels on infected DCs late in infection is able to directly inhibit T cell proliferation by surface contact-dependent negative signalling. This most likely accounts for the failure of infected DC cultures to stimulate allogeneic and inhibit mitogen-stimulated T cell proliferation in vitro and the pronounced proliferative unresponsiveness of T cell ex vivo to polyclonal and antigen-specific stimulation which is a central finding of MV-induced immunosuppression.
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- S Schneider-Schaulies
- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany
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Wang M, Libbey JE, Tsunoda I, Fujinami RS. Modulation of immune system function by measles virus infection. II. Infection of B cells leads to the production of a soluble factor that arrests uninfected B cells in G0/G1. Viral Immunol 2003; 16:45-55. [PMID: 12725688 DOI: 10.1089/088282403763635447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Measles can result in a variety of immunologic defects. Previously we showed that an Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B cell line (B cells), when infected with measles virus, produced a soluble antiproliferative factor that inhibited proliferation of T and B cells. Here we explore the effects of infection by measles virus versus the virus-free soluble antiproliferative factor on B cells. The B cells showed no change in the amounts of interleukin (IL)-2, 10, 12, interferon (IFN)-gamma, or transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta when infected or exposed to the soluble factor. Similarly, B cells showed no change in the expression of class II major histocompatibility antigens, LFA-1, ICAM-1, CD19, CD40, CD80, CD86, CD95 (Fas), or CD178 (FasL). Cell cycle analysis showed that measles virus infection caused an accumulation of cells in S and G(2)/M phases with a "sub-G(1)" cell population, while incubation of cells with the soluble factor caused an accumulation in G(0)/G(1). These experiments provide evidence that measles virus causes a profound inhibition of B cell proliferation without distinguishable changes in cytokine profile or cell surface phenotype. Further, it appears that there are two populations of cells affected by infection: one population is growth arrested due to the influence of the immunosuppressive factor and is not infected; a second population that is infected progresses through S phase less efficiently. Alternatively, while both the soluble factor and live virus infection may affect cells in G(0)/G(1) phases, only live virus infection could selectively induce apoptosis of G(0)/G(1) cells, resulting in cell accumulation in S and G(2)/M phases with a build up of "sub-G(1)" cells.
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- Michael Wang
- Division of Hematology/Oncology/Bone-Marrow Transplantation, The Children's Hospital Denver, Colorado, USA
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Andres O, Obojes K, Kim KS, Meulen VT, Schneider-Schaulies J. CD46- and CD150-independent endothelial cell infection with wild-type measles viruses. J Gen Virol 2003; 84:1189-1197. [PMID: 12692284 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.18877-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Measles virus (MV) infects endothelial cells of the skin, the brain and other organs during acute or persistent infections. Endothelial cells are supposed to play an important role in virus spread from the blood stream to surrounding tissues. CD46 and CD150 (signalling lymphocytic activation molecule, SLAM) have been described as cellular receptors for certain MV strains. We found that human umbilical vein and brain microvascular endothelial cells (HUVECs and HBMECs) were CD46-positive, but did not express SLAM. Wild-type MV strains, which do not use CD46 as a receptor at the surface of transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells, infected HUVECs and HBMECs to varying extents in a strain-dependent way. This infection was not inhibited by antibodies to CD46. These data suggest the presence of an additional unidentified receptor for MV uptake and spread in human endothelial cells.
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- Oliver Andres
- Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, Versbacher Str. 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, Versbacher Str. 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, Versbacher Str. 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany
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Schneider-Schaulies S, ter Meulen V. Triggering of and interference with immune activation: interactions of measles virus with monocytes and dendritic cells. Viral Immunol 2003; 15:417-28. [PMID: 12479392 DOI: 10.1089/088282402760312304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Schneider-Schaulies J, Meulen VT, Schneider-Schaulies S. Measles infection of the central nervous system. J Neurovirol 2003; 9:247-52. [PMID: 12707855 DOI: 10.1080/13550280390193993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2002] [Revised: 10/22/2002] [Accepted: 11/13/2002] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Central nervous system (CNS) complications occurring early and late after acute measles are serious and often fatal. In spite of functional cell-mediated immunity and high antiviral antibody titers, an immunological control of the CNS infection is not achieved in patients suffering from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). The known cellular receptors for measle virus (MV) in humans, CD46 and CD150 (signaling lymphocyte activation molecule, SLAM), are important components of the viral tropism by mediating binding and entry to peripheral cells. Because neural cells do not express SLAM and only sporadically CD46, virus entry to neural cells, and spread within the CNS, remain mechanistically unclear. Mice, hamsters, and rats have been used as model systems to study MV-induced CNS infections, and revealed interesting aspects of virulence, persistence, the immune response, and prerequisites of protection. With the help of recombinant MV and mice expressing transgenic receptors, questions such as receptor-dependent viral spread, or viral determinants of virulence, have been investigated. However, many questions concerning the human MV-induced CNS diseases are still open.
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Pfeuffer J, Püschel K, Meulen VT, Schneider-Schaulies J, Niewiesk S. Extent of measles virus spread and immune suppression differentiates between wild-type and vaccine strains in the cotton rat model (Sigmodon hispidus). J Virol 2003; 77:150-8. [PMID: 12477820 PMCID: PMC140581 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.1.150-158.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Infection of humans with wild-type measles virus leads to strong immune suppression and secondary infections, whereas immunization with an attenuated vaccine strain does not. Using the cotton rat model (Sigmodon hispidus), we investigated whether vaccine and wild-type viruses differ in viral spread and whether this is correlated with inhibition of of proliferation of spleen cells ex vivo after mitogen stimulation. After intranasal infection of cotton rats with wild-type and vaccine strains, it was found that wild-type virus replicates better in lung tissue, spreads to the mediastinal lymph nodes, and induces a more pronounced and longer-lasting inhibition of proliferation of spleen cells ex vivo after mitogen stimulation than does vaccine virus. To induce the same degree of proliferation inhibition, 1,000-fold less wild-type virus was required than vaccine virus. With this system, the virulence of various measles virus isolates and recombinant viruses was tested. Four (in humans and/or monkeys) highly pathogenic virus strains were immunosuppressive, whereas viruses of vaccine virus genotype A were not. Using virus pairs which, due to passage on fibroblasts versus lymphoid cells or due to a point mutation in the hemagglutinin (N481 --> Y), differed in their usage of the two receptor molecules CD46 and CD150 on human cells, it was found that viruses using exclusively CD150 in vitro spread to mediastinal lymph nodes and induced strong immune suppression. These data demonstrate that important parameters of virulence seen in humans, such as viral spread and immune suppression, are reflected in the cotton rat model.
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- Joanna Pfeuffer
- Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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Neumann G, Whitt MA, Kawaoka Y. A decade after the generation of a negative-sense RNA virus from cloned cDNA - what have we learned? J Gen Virol 2002; 83:2635-2662. [PMID: 12388800 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-11-2635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Since the first generation of a negative-sense RNA virus entirely from cloned cDNA in 1994, similar reverse genetics systems have been established for members of most genera of the Rhabdo- and Paramyxoviridae families, as well as for Ebola virus (Filoviridae). The generation of segmented negative-sense RNA viruses was technically more challenging and has lagged behind the recovery of nonsegmented viruses, primarily because of the difficulty of providing more than one genomic RNA segment. A member of the Bunyaviridae family (whose genome is composed of three RNA segments) was first generated from cloned cDNA in 1996, followed in 1999 by the production of influenza virus, which contains eight RNA segments. Thus, reverse genetics, or the de novo synthesis of negative-sense RNA viruses from cloned cDNA, has become a reliable laboratory method that can be used to study this large group of medically and economically important viruses. It provides a powerful tool for dissecting the virus life cycle, virus assembly, the role of viral proteins in pathogenicity and the interplay of viral proteins with components of the host cell immune response. Finally, reverse genetics has opened the way to develop live attenuated virus vaccines and vaccine vectors.
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- Gabriele Neumann
- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, 2015 Linden Drive West, Madison, WI 53706, USA1
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- Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA2
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- CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan4
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan3
- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, 2015 Linden Drive West, Madison, WI 53706, USA1
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Bieback K, Lien E, Klagge IM, Avota E, Schneider-Schaulies J, Duprex WP, Wagner H, Kirschning CJ, Ter Meulen V, Schneider-Schaulies S. Hemagglutinin protein of wild-type measles virus activates toll-like receptor 2 signaling. J Virol 2002; 76:8729-36. [PMID: 12163593 PMCID: PMC136986 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.17.8729-8736.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 369] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Pattern recognition via Toll-like receptors (TLR) by antigen-presenting cells is an important element of innate immunity. We report that wild-type measles virus but not vaccine strains activate cells via both human and murine TLR2, and this is a property of the hemagglutinin (H) protein. The ability to activate cells via TLR2 by wild-type MV H protein is abolished by mutation of a single amino acid, asparagine at position 481 to tyrosine, as is found in attenuated strains, which is important for interaction with CD46, the receptor for these strains. TLR2 activation by MV wild-type H protein stimulates induction of proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) in human monocytic cells and surface expression of CD150, the receptor for all MV strains. Confirming the specificity of this interaction, wild-type H protein did not induce IL-6 release in macrophages from TLR2-/- mice. Thus, the unique property of MV wild-type strains to activate TLR2-dependent signals might essentially contribute not only to immune activation but also to viral spread and pathogenicity by upregulating the MV receptor on monocytes.
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- Karen Bieback
- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany
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- Yusuke Yanagi
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
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Schneider U, von Messling V, Devaux P, Cattaneo R. Efficiency of measles virus entry and dissemination through different receptors. J Virol 2002; 76:7460-7. [PMID: 12097558 PMCID: PMC136405 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.15.7460-7467.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The efficiency with which different measles virus (MV) strains enter cells through the immune cell-specific protein SLAM (CD150) or other receptors, including the ubiquitous protein CD46, may influence their pathogenicity. We compared the cell entry efficiency of recombinant MV differing only in their attachment protein hemagglutinin (H). We constructed these viruses with an additional gene expressing an autofluorescent reporter protein to allow direct detection of every infected cell. A virus with a wild-type H protein entered cells through SLAM two to three times more efficiently than a virus with the H protein of the attenuated strain Edmonston, whereas cell entry efficiency through CD46 was lower. However, these subtle differences were amplified at the cell fusion stage because the wild-type H protein failed to fuse CD46-expressing cells. We also proved formally that a mutation in H protein residue 481 (asparagine to tyrosine) results in improved CD46-specific entry. To define the selective pressure exerted on that codon, we monitored its evolution in different H protein backgrounds and found that several passages in CD46-expressing Vero cells were necessary to shift it in the majority of the MV RNA. To verify the importance of these observations for human infections, we examined MV entry into peripheral blood mononuclear cells and observed that viruses with asparagine 481 H proteins infect these cells more efficiently.
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- Urs Schneider
- Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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Hashimoto K, Ono N, Tatsuo H, Minagawa H, Takeda M, Takeuchi K, Yanagi Y. SLAM (CD150)-independent measles virus entry as revealed by recombinant virus expressing green fluorescent protein. J Virol 2002; 76:6743-9. [PMID: 12050387 PMCID: PMC136249 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.13.6743-6749.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2002] [Accepted: 04/04/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Wild-type measles virus (MV) strains use human signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) as a cellular receptor, while vaccine strains such as the Edmonston strain can use both SLAM and CD46 as receptors. Although the expression of SLAM is restricted to cells of the immune system (lymphocytes, dendritic cells, and monocytes), histopathological studies with humans and experimentally infected monkeys have shown that MV also infects SLAM-negative cells, including epithelial, endothelial, and neuronal cells. In an attempt to explain these findings, we produced the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-expressing recombinant MV (IC323-EGFP) based on the wild-type IC-B strain. IC323-EGFP showed almost the same growth kinetics as the parental recombinant MV and produced large syncytia exhibiting green autofluorescence in SLAM-positive cells. Interestingly, all SLAM-negative cell lines examined also showed green autofluorescence after infection with IC323-EGFP, although the virus hardly spread from the originally infected individual cells and thus did not induce syncytia. When the number of EGFP-expressing cells after infection was taken as an indicator, the infectivities of IC323-EGFP for SLAM-negative cells were 2 to 3 logs lower than those for SLAM-positive cells. Anti-MV hemagglutinin antibody or fusion block peptide, but not anti-CD46 antibody, blocked IC323-EGFP infection of SLAM-negative cells. This infection occurred under conditions in which entry via endocytosis was inhibited. These results indicate that MV can infect a variety of cells, albeit with a low efficiency, by using an as yet unidentified receptor(s) other than SLAM or CD46, in part explaining the observed MV infection of SLAM-negative cells in vivo.
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- Koji Hashimoto
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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Erlenhöfer C, Duprex WP, Rima BK, Ter Meulen V, Schneider-Schaulies J. Analysis of receptor (CD46, CD150) usage by measles virus. J Gen Virol 2002; 83:1431-1436. [PMID: 12029158 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-6-1431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In order to investigate which measles virus (MV)-strains use CD46 and/or CD150 (signalling lymphocytic activation molecule, SLAM) as receptors, CHO cells expressing either recombinant CD46 or SLAM were infected with a panel of 28 MV-strains including vaccine strains, wild-type strains with various passage histories and recombinant viruses. We found that SLAM served as a common receptor conferring virus uptake and syncytium formation for all MV-strains tested. Predominantly vaccine and laboratory adapted strains, but also a minor fraction of the wild-type strains tested, could utilize both CD46 and SLAM. Using recombinant viruses, we demonstrate that the single amino acid exchange in the haemagglutinin (H) protein at position 481 Asn/Tyr (H481NY) determines whether the virus can utilize CD46. This amino acid alteration has no affect on the usage of SLAM as receptor, and as such demonstrates that the binding sites for SLAM and CD46 are distinct.
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- Christian Erlenhöfer
- Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, Versbacher Str. 7, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany1
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- School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK2
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- School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK2
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- Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, Versbacher Str. 7, D-97078 Würzburg, Germany1
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Takeuchi K, Takeda M, Miyajima N, Kobune F, Tanabayashi K, Tashiro M. Recombinant wild-type and edmonston strain measles viruses bearing heterologous H proteins: role of H protein in cell fusion and host cell specificity. J Virol 2002; 76:4891-900. [PMID: 11967306 PMCID: PMC136141 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.10.4891-4900.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2001] [Accepted: 02/13/2002] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Wild-type measles virus (MV) isolated from B95a cells has a restricted host cell specificity and hardly replicates in Vero cells, whereas the laboratory strain Edmonston (Ed) replicates in a variety of cell types including Vero cells. To investigate the role of H protein in the differential MV host cell specificity and cell fusion activity, H proteins of wild-type MV (IC-B) and Ed were coexpressed with the F protein in Vero cells. Cell-cell fusion occurred in Vero cells when Ed H protein, but not IC-B H protein, was expressed. To analyze the role of H protein in the context of viral infection, a recombinant IC-B virus bearing Ed H protein (IC/Ed-H) and a recombinant Ed virus bearing IC-B H protein (Ed/IC-H) were generated from cloned cDNAs. IC/Ed-H replicated efficiently in Vero cells and induced small syncytia in Vero cells, indicating that Ed H protein conferred replication ability in Vero cells on IC/Ed-H. On the other hand, Ed/IC-H also replicated well in Vero cells and induced small syncytia, although parental Ed induced large syncytia in Vero cells. These results indicated that an MV protein(s) other than H protein was likely involved in determining cell fusion and host cell specificity of MV in the case of our recombinants. SLAM (CDw150), a recently identified cellular receptor for wild-type MV, was not expressed in Vero cells, and a monoclonal antibody against CD46, a cellular receptor for Ed, did not block replication or syncytium formation of Ed/IC-H in Vero cells. It is therefore suggested that Ed/IC-H entered Vero cells through another cellular receptor.
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- Kaoru Takeuchi
- Department of Virus Diseases and Vaccine Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashi-Murayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan.
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McQuaid S, Cosby SL. An immunohistochemical study of the distribution of the measles virus receptors, CD46 and SLAM, in normal human tissues and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. J Transl Med 2002; 82:403-9. [PMID: 11950898 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3780434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We have compared the expression of the known measles virus (MV) receptors, membrane cofactor protein (CD46) and the signaling lymphocyte-activation molecule (SLAM), using immunohistochemistry, in a range of normal peripheral tissues (known to be infected by MV) as well as in normal and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) brain. To increase our understanding of how these receptors could be utilized by wild-type or vaccine strains in vivo, the results have been considered with regard to the known route of infection and systemic spread of MV. Strong staining for CD46 was observed in endothelial cells lining blood vessels and in epithelial cells and tissue macrophages in a wide range of peripheral tissues, as well as in Langerhans' and squamous cells in the skin. In lymphoid tissues and blood, subsets of cells were positive for SLAM, in comparison to CD46, which stained all nucleated cell types. Strong CD46 staining was observed on cerebral endothelium throughout the brain and also on ependymal cells lining the ventricles and choroid plexus. Comparatively weaker CD46 staining was observed on subsets of neurons and oligodendrocytes. In SSPE brain sections, the areas distant from lesion sites and negative for MV by immunocytochemistry showed the same distribution for CD46 as in normal brain. However, cells in lesions, positive for MV, were negative for CD46. Normal brain showed no staining for SLAM, and in SSPE brain only subsets of leukocytes in inflammatory infiltrates were positive. None of the cell types most commonly infected by MV show detectable expression of SLAM, whereas CD46 is much more widely expressed and could fulfill a receptor function for some wild-type strains. In the case of wild-type stains, which are unable to use CD46, a further as yet unknown receptor(s) would be necessary to fully explain the pathology of MV infection.
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- Stephen McQuaid
- Neuropathology Laboratory, Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Minagawa H, Tanaka K, Ono N, Tatsuo H, Yanagi Y. Induction of the measles virus receptor SLAM (CD150) on monocytes. J Gen Virol 2001; 82:2913-2917. [PMID: 11714966 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-82-12-2913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Wild-type strains of measles virus (MV) isolated in B95a cells use the signalling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM; also known as CD150) as a cellular receptor, whereas the Edmonston strain and its derivative vaccine strains can use both SLAM and the ubiquitously expressed CD46 as receptors. Among the major target cells for MV, lymphocytes and dendritic cells are known to express SLAM after activation, but monocytes have been reported to be SLAM-negative. In this study, SLAM expression on monocytes was examined under different conditions. When freshly isolated from the peripheral blood, monocytes did not express SLAM on the cell surface. However, monocytes became SLAM-positive after incubation with phytohaemagglutinin, bacterial lipopolysaccharide or MV. Anti-SLAM monoclonal antibodies efficiently blocked infection of activated monocytes with a wild-type strain of MV. These results indicate that SLAM is readily induced and acts as a monocyte receptor for MV.
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- Hiroko Minagawa
- Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan1
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- Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan1
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- Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan1
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- Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan1
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- Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan1
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Schneider-Schaulies J, ter Meulen V, Schneider-Schaulies S. Measles virus interactions with cellular receptors: consequences for viral pathogenesis. J Neurovirol 2001; 7:391-9. [PMID: 11582511 DOI: 10.1080/135502801753170246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Although CNS complications occurring early and late after acute measles are a serious problem and often fatal, the transient immunosuppression lasting for several weeks after the rash is the major cause of measles-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. This review is focused on the interactions of measles virus (MV) with cellular receptors on neural and lymphoid cells which are important elements in viral pathogenesis. First, the cognate MV receptors, CD46 and CD150, are important components of viral tropism by mediating binding and entry. Second, however, additional unknown cellular surface molecules may (independently of viral uptake) after interaction with the MV glycoprotein complex act as signaling molecules and thereby modulate cellular survival, proliferation, and specific functions.
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- J Schneider-Schaulies
- Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
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