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Hossain MJ, Mori I, Dong L, Liu B, Kimura Y. Fetal calf serum inhibits virus genome expression in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells persistently infected with influenza A virus. Med Microbiol Immunol 2007; 197:21-7. [PMID: 17611773 DOI: 10.1007/s00430-007-0054-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A cell line of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells persistently infected with human influenza A virus has been established and designated as MDCK-IVpi cells. Production of progeny virus in MDCK-IVpi cells was suppressed when the cells were incubated in the presence of 10% fetal calf serum (FCS). FCS impaired virus mRNA synthesis in MDCK-IVpi cells, which resulted in a scarcity of virus proteins for virion formation. However, MDCK-IVpi cells well supported the growth of superinfecting heterologous influenza viruses, even in the presence of FCS. A certain fetuin-like substance in FCS might be responsible for the observed inhibition of virus replication.
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- Md Jaber Hossain
- Department of Microbiology, Fukui University School of Medicine, Fukui 910-1193, Japan
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Nelson HB, Tang H. Effect of cell growth on hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication and a mechanism of cell confluence-based inhibition of HCV RNA and protein expression. J Virol 2006; 80:1181-90. [PMID: 16414995 PMCID: PMC1346944 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.80.3.1181-1190.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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An intimate relationship between hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication and the physiological state of the host liver cells has been reported. In particular, a highly reproducible and reversible inhibitory effect of high cell density on HCV replication was observed: high levels of HCV RNA and protein can be detected in actively growing cells but decline sharply when the replicon cells reach confluence. Arrested cell growth of confluent cells has been proposed to be responsible for the inhibitory effect. Indeed, other means of arresting cell growth have also been shown to inhibit HCV replication. Here, we report a detailed study of the effect of cell growth and confluence on HCV replication using a flow cytometry-based assay that is not biased against cytostasis and reduced cell number. Although we readily reproduced the inhibitory effect of cell confluence on HCV replication, we found no evidence of inhibition by serum starvation, which arrested cell growth as expected. In addition, we observed no inhibitory effect by agents that perturb the cell cycle. Instead, our results suggest that the reduced intracellular pools of nucleosides account for the suppression of HCV expression in confluent cells, possibly through the shutoff of the de novo nucleoside biosynthetic pathway when cells become confluent. Adding exogenous uridine and cytidine to the culture medium restored HCV replication and expression in confluent cells. These results suggest that cell growth arrest is not sufficient for HCV replicon inhibition and reveal a mechanism for HCV RNA inhibition by cell confluence.
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- Heather B Nelson
- Bio Unit I, Chieftan Way, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4370, USA
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Volmer R, Bajramovic JJ, Schneider U, Ufano S, Pochet S, Gonzalez-Dunia D. Mechanism of the antiviral action of 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine on Borna disease virus. J Virol 2005; 79:4514-8. [PMID: 15767452 PMCID: PMC1061581 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.7.4514-4518.2005] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Borna disease virus (BDV) is a nonsegmented, negative-stranded RNA virus that causes neurological diseases in a variety of warm-blooded animal species. Recently, we showed that the nucleoside analog 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (Ara-C) was a potent inhibitor of BDV. This finding was surprising for an RNA virus, since Ara-C is a DNA polymerase inhibitor. Thus, we sought to better define the mechanism of action of Ara-C on BDV. Here, we show that (i) this effect is specific for an arabinoside ring carrying a cytosine base, (ii) it requires phosphorylation of the nucleotide, and (iii) it can be reversed by an excess of cytidine. Using the recently described minigenome assay for BDV, we provide evidence suggesting that Ara-C may act as a competitive inhibitor of the BDV replication complex.
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Bajramovic JJ, Syan S, Brahic M, de la Torre JC, Gonzalez-Dunia D. 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine inhibits borna disease virus replication and spread. J Virol 2002; 76:6268-76. [PMID: 12021360 PMCID: PMC136237 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.12.6268-6286.2002] [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: 01/24/2023] Open
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Borna disease virus (BDV) is a nonsegmented, negative-strand RNA virus that causes neurological diseases in a variety of warm-blooded animal species. There is general consensus that BDV can also infect humans, being a possible zoonosis. Although the clinical consequences of human BDV infection are still controversial, experimental BDV infection is a well-described model for human neuropsychiatric diseases. To date, there is no effective treatment against BDV. In this paper, we demonstrate that the nucleoside analog 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (Ara-C), a known inhibitor of DNA polymerases, inhibits BDV replication. Ara-C treatment inhibited BDV RNA and protein synthesis and prevented BDV cell-to-cell spread in vitro. Replication of other negative-strand RNA viruses such as influenza virus or measles virus was not inhibited by Ara-C, underscoring the particularity of the replication machinery of BDV. Strikingly, Ara-C treatment induced nuclear retention of viral ribonucleoparticles. These findings could not be attributed to known effects of Ara-C on the host cell, suggesting that Ara-C directly inhibits the BDV polymerase. Finally, we show that Ara-C inhibits BDV replication in vivo in the brain of infected rats, preventing persistent infection of the central nervous system as well as the development of clinical disease. These findings open the way to the development of effective antiviral therapy against BDV.
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- Jeffrey J. Bajramovic
- Unité des Virus Lents, CNRS URA 1930, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Division of Virology, Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Unité des Virus Lents, CNRS URA 1930, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Division of Virology, Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Unité des Virus Lents, CNRS URA 1930, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Division of Virology, Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Unité des Virus Lents, CNRS URA 1930, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Division of Virology, Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Unité des Virus Lents, CNRS URA 1930, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Division of Virology, Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
- Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité des Virus Lents, CNRS URA 1930, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 Rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris, France. Phone: 33-1-4568 8771. Fax: 33-1-4061 3167. E-mail:
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Ibrahim MS, Watanabe M, Palacios JA, Kamitani W, Komoto S, Kobayashi T, Tomonaga K, Ikuta K. Varied persistent life cycles of Borna disease virus in a human oligodendroglioma cell line. J Virol 2002; 76:3873-80. [PMID: 11907227 PMCID: PMC136060 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.8.3873-3880.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Borna disease virus (BDV) establishes a persistent infection in the central nervous system of vertebrate animal species as well as in tissue cultures. In an attempt to characterize the life cycle of BDV in persistently infected cultured cells, we developed 30 clones by single-cell cloning from a human oligodendroglioma (OL) cell line after infection with BDV. According to the percentage of cells expressing the BDV major proteins, p40 (nucleoprotein) and p24 (phosphoprotein), the clones were classified into two types: type I (>20%) and type II (<20%). mRNAs corresponding to both proteins were detected by in situ hybridization (ISH) in a percentage of cells consistent with that for the protein expression in the two types. Surprisingly, ISH for the detection of the genomic RNA, mainly in type II, revealed a significantly larger cell population harboring the genomic RNA than that with the protein as well as the mRNA expression. By recloning from type II primary cell clones, the same phenotype was confirmed in the secondary cell clones obtained: i.e., low percentage of protein-positive cells and higher percentage of cells harboring the genomic RNA. After nerve growth factor treatment, the two types of clones showed increases in the percentage of cells expressing BDV-specific proteins that reached 80% in type II clones, in addition to increased expression levels per cell. Such enhancement might have been mediated by the activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase in the clones as revealed by the detection of activated ERK1/2. Thus, our findings show that BDV may have established a persistent infection at low levels of viral expression in OL cells with the possibility of a latent infection.
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- Madiha S Ibrahim
- Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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