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Curran SJ, Griffin EF, Ferreri LM, Kyriakis CS, Howerth EW, Perez DR, Tompkins SM. Swine influenza A virus isolates containing the pandemic H1N1 origin matrix gene elicit greater disease in the murine model. Microbiol Spectr 2024; 12:e0338623. [PMID: 38299860 PMCID: PMC10913740 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.03386-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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Since the 1990s, endemic North American swine influenza A viruses (swFLUAVs) contained an internal gene segment constellation, the triple reassortment internal gene (TRIG) cassette. In 2009, the H1N1 pandemic (pdmH1N1) virus spilled back into swine but did not become endemic. However, the pdmH1N1 contributed the matrix gene (pdmM) to the swFLUAVs circulating in the pig population, which replaced the classical swine matrix gene (swM) found in the TRIG cassette, suggesting the pdmM has a fitness benefit. Others have shown that swFLUAVs containing the pdmM have greater transmission efficiency compared to viruses containing the swM gene segment. We hypothesized that the matrix (M) gene could also affect disease and utilized two infection models, resistant BALB/c and susceptible DBA/2 mice, to assess pathogenicity. We infected BALB/c and DBA/2 mice with H1 and H3 swFLUAVs containing the swM or pdmM and measured lung virus titers, morbidity, mortality, and lung histopathology. H1 influenza strains containing the pdmM gene caused greater morbidity and mortality in resistant and susceptible murine strains, while H3 swFLUAVs caused no clinical disease. However, both H1 and H3 swFLUAVs containing the pdmM replicated to higher viral titers in the lungs and pdmM containing H1 viruses induced greater histological changes compared to swM H1 viruses. While the surface glycoproteins and other gene segments may contribute to swFLUAV pathogenicity in mice, these data suggest that the origin of the matrix gene also contributes to pathogenicity of swFLUAV in mice, although we must be cautious in translating these conclusions to their natural host, swine. IMPORTANCE The 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus rapidly spilled back into North American swine, reassorting with the already genetically diverse swFLUAVs. Notably, the M gene segment quickly replaced the classical M gene segment, suggesting a fitness benefit. Here, using two murine models of infection, we demonstrate that swFLUAV isolates containing the pandemic H1N1 origin M gene caused increased disease compared to isolates containing the classical swine M gene. These results suggest that, in addition to other influenza virus gene segments, the swFLUAV M gene segment contributes to pathogenesis in mammals.
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- Shelly J. Curran
- Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Emory-UGA Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS), Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Emory-UGA Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS), Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Population Health, Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Emory-UGA Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS), Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Population Health, Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Emory-UGA Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS), Athens, Georgia, USA
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Li R, Gao S, Chen H, Zhang X, Yang X, Zhao J, Wang Z. Virus usurps alternative splicing to clear the decks for infection. Virol J 2023; 20:131. [PMID: 37340420 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-023-02098-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023] Open
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Since invasion, there will be a tug-of-war between host and virus to scramble cellular resources, for either restraining or facilitating infection. Alternative splicing (AS) is a conserved and critical mechanism of processing pre-mRNA into mRNAs to increase protein diversity in eukaryotes. Notably, this kind of post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism has gained appreciation since it is widely involved in virus infection. Here, we highlight the important roles of AS in regulating viral protein expression and how virus in turn hijacks AS to antagonize host immune response. This review will widen the understandings of host-virus interactions, be meaningful to innovatively elucidate viral pathogenesis, and provide novel targets for developing antiviral drugs in the future.
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- Ruixue Li
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China.
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Han YJ, Lee KM, Wu GH, Gong YN, Dutta A, Shih SR. Targeting influenza A virus by splicing inhibitor herboxidiene reveals the importance of subtype-specific signatures around splice sites. J Biomed Sci 2023; 30:10. [PMID: 36737756 PMCID: PMC9895974 DOI: 10.1186/s12929-023-00897-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The association between M segment splicing and pathogenicity remains ambiguous in human influenza A viruses. In this study, we aimed to investigate M splicing in various human influenza A viruses and characterize its physiological roles by applying the splicing inhibitor, herboxidiene. METHODS We examined the M splicing of human H1N1 and H3N2 viruses by comparing three H1N1 and H3N2 strains, respectively, through reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analyses. We randomly selected M sequences of human H1N1, H2N2, and H3N2 viruses isolated from 1933 to 2020 and examined their phylogenetic relationships. Next, we determined the effects of single nucleotide variations on M splicing by generating mutant viruses harboring the 55C/T variant through reverse genetics. To confirm the importance of M2 splicing in the replication of H1N1 and H3N2, we treated infected cells with splicing inhibitor herboxidiene and analyzed the viral growth using plaque assay. To explore the physiological role of the various levels of M2 protein in pathogenicity, we challenged C57BL/6 mice with the H1N1 WSN wild-type strain, mutant H1N1 (55T), and chimeric viruses including H1N1 + H3wt and H1N1 + H3mut. One-tailed paired t-test was used for virus titer calculation and multiple comparisons between groups were performed using two-way analysis of variance. RESULTS M sequence splice site analysis revealed an evolutionarily conserved single nucleotide variant C55T in H3N2, which impaired M2 expression and was accompanied by collinear M1 and mRNA3 production. Aberrant M2 splicing resulted from splice-site selection rather than a general defect in the splicing process. The C55T substitution significantly reduced both M2 mRNA and protein levels regardless of the virus subtype. Consequently, herboxidiene treatment dramatically decreased both the H1N1 and H3N2 virus titers. However, a lower M2 expression only attenuated H1N1 virus replication and in vivo pathogenicity. This attenuated phenotype was restored by M replacement of H3N2 M in a chimeric H1N1 virus, despite low M2 levels. CONCLUSIONS The discrepancy in M2-dependence emphasizes the importance of M2 in human influenza A virus pathogenicity, which leads to subtype-specific evolution. Our findings provide insights into virus adaptation processes in humans and highlights splicing regulation as a potential antiviral target.
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- Yi-Ju Han
- grid.145695.a0000 0004 1798 0922Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan ,grid.145695.a0000 0004 1798 0922Research Center of Emerging Virus Infection, Division of Biotechnology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- grid.145695.a0000 0004 1798 0922Research Center of Emerging Virus Infection, Division of Biotechnology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan ,grid.145695.a0000 0004 1798 0922International Master Degree Program for Molecular Medicine in Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan ,grid.454211.70000 0004 1756 999XDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- grid.145695.a0000 0004 1798 0922Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan ,grid.145695.a0000 0004 1798 0922Research Center of Emerging Virus Infection, Division of Biotechnology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- grid.145695.a0000 0004 1798 0922Research Center of Emerging Virus Infection, Division of Biotechnology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan ,grid.454211.70000 0004 1756 999XDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan ,grid.454211.70000 0004 1756 999XDepartment of Laboratory Science, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- grid.454211.70000 0004 1756 999XDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Research Center of Emerging Virus Infection, Division of Biotechnology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. .,Department of Laboratory Science, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan. .,Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. .,Research Center for Chinese Herbal Medicine, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan. .,Research Center for Food and Cosmetic Safety, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan. .,Graduate Institute of Health Industry Technology, College of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
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Martins de Camargo M, Caetano AR, Ferreira de Miranda Santos IK. Evolutionary pressures rendered by animal husbandry practices for avian influenza viruses to adapt to humans. iScience 2022; 25:104005. [PMID: 35313691 PMCID: PMC8933668 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Commercial poultry operations produce and crowd billions of birds every year, which is a source of inexpensive animal protein. Commercial poultry is intensely bred for desirable production traits, and currently presents very low variability at the major histocompatibility complex. This situation dampens the advantages conferred by the MHC’s high genetic variability, and crowding generates immunosuppressive stress. We address the proteins of influenza A viruses directly and indirectly involved in host specificities. We discuss how mutants with increased virulence and/or altered host specificity may arise if few class I alleles are the sole selective pressure on avian viruses circulating in immunocompromised poultry. This hypothesis is testable with peptidomics of MHC ligands. Breeding strategies for commercial poultry can easily and inexpensively include high variability of MHC as a trait of interest, to help save billions of dollars as a disease burden caused by influenza and decrease the risk of selecting highly virulent strains.
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Bell TAS, Velappan N, Gleasner CD, Xie G, Starkenburg SR, Waldo G, Banerjee S, Micheva-Viteva SN. Non-classical autophagy activation pathways are essential for production of infectious Influenza A virus in vitro. Mol Microbiol 2021; 117:508-524. [PMID: 34931347 PMCID: PMC9305535 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Autophagy is a critical mechanism deployed by eukaryotic cells in response to stress, including viral infection, to boost the innate antimicrobial responses. However, an increasing number of pathogens hijack the autophagic machinery to facilitate their own replication. Influenza A virus (IAV), responsible for several global pandemics, has an intricate dependence on autophagy for successful replication in mammalian cells. To elucidate key chokepoints in the host stress responses facilitating IAV replication, we constructed a meta‐transcriptome of IAV and host gene expression dynamics during early (1–3 hpi), mid (4–6 hpi), and late (8–12 hpi) stages of the viral replication cycle at two multiplicities of infection (MOI): 1 and 5. We supplemented the global transcriptome study with phosphoproteomic analysis of stress‐activated protein kinase (SAPK/JNK) signaling in lung carcinoma (predominantly used as an in vitro model of IAV replication) and normal human bronchial epithelial cells. We report significant differences in the activation profiles of autophagy regulating genes upon IAV infection at the two MOI as well as divergent dependence on ULK1 signaling within the normal and cancer cells. Regardless of the cell model, JNK‐Thr187 signaling was crucial for the production of infectious viral particles.
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- Tisza A S Bell
- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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Xie L, Xu G, Xin L, Wang Z, Wu R, Wu M, Cheng Y, Wang H, Yan Y, Ma J, Sun J. Eurasian Avian-like M1 Plays More Important Role than M2 in Pathogenicity of 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus in Mice. Viruses 2021; 13:2335. [PMID: 34960604 DOI: 10.3390/v13122335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Revised: 11/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Reassortant variant viruses generated between 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza virus [A(H1N1)pdm09] and endemic swine influenza viruses posed a potential risk to humans. Surprisingly, genetic analysis showed that almost all of these variant viruses contained the M segment from A(H1N1)pdm09, which originated from Eurasian avian-like swine influenza viruses. Studies have shown that the A(H1N1)pdm09 M gene is critical for the transmissibility and pathogenicity of the variant viruses. However, the M gene encodes two proteins, M1 and M2, and which of those plays a more important role in virus pathogenicity remains unknown. In this study, the M1 and M2 genes of A(H1N1)pdm09 were replaced with those of endemic H3N2 swine influenza virus, respectively. The chimeric viruses were rescued and evaluated in vitro and in mice. Both M1 and M2 of H3N2 affected the virus replication in vitro. In mice, the introduction of H3N2 M1 attenuated the chimeric virus, where all the mice survived from the infection, compared with the wild type virus that caused 100 % mortality. However, the chimeric virus containing H3N2 M2 was still virulent to mice, and caused 16.6% mortality, as well as similar body weight loss to the wild type virus infected group. Compared with the wild type virus, the chimeric virus containing H3N2 M1 induced lower levels of inflammatory cytokines and higher levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines, whereas the chimeric virus containing H3N2 M2 induced substantial pro-inflammatory responses, but higher levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines. The study demonstrated that Eurasian avian-like M1 played a more important role than M2 in the pathogenicity of A(H1N1)pdm09 in mice.
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Froggatt HM, Burke KN, Chaparian RR, Miranda HA, Zhu X, Chambers BS, Heaton NS. Influenza A virus segments five and six can harbor artificial introns allowing expanded coding capacity. PLoS Pathog 2021; 17:e1009951. [PMID: 34570829 PMCID: PMC8496794 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Influenza A viruses encode their genomes across eight, negative sense RNA segments. The six largest segments produce mRNA transcripts that do not generally splice; however, the two smallest segments are actively spliced to produce the essential viral proteins NEP and M2. Thus, viral utilization of RNA splicing effectively expands the viral coding capacity without increasing the number of genomic segments. As a first step towards understanding why splicing is not more broadly utilized across genomic segments, we designed and inserted an artificial intron into the normally nonsplicing NA segment. This insertion was tolerated and, although viral mRNAs were incompletely spliced, we observed only minor effects on viral fitness. To take advantage of the unspliced viral RNAs, we encoded a reporter luciferase gene in frame with the viral ORF such that when the intron was not removed the reporter protein would be produced. This approach, which we also show can be applied to the NP encoding segment and in different viral genetic backgrounds, led to high levels of reporter protein expression with minimal effects on the kinetics of viral replication or the ability to cause disease in experimentally infected animals. These data together show that the influenza viral genome is more tolerant of splicing than previously appreciated and this knowledge can be leveraged to develop viral genetic platforms with utility for biotechnology applications. Unlike most host mRNAs, some viral mRNAs encode multiple discrete, functional proteins. One method influenza A viruses use to increase the protein products from two of their eight RNA genome segments is splicing. Splicing requires host machinery to remove part of the viral mRNA, the intron, to generate a different mRNA product. Although only certain influenza viral segments naturally splice, we were interested in whether additional segments could splice to produce multiple proteins. We inserted artificial introns harboring reporter genes into otherwise nonsplicing genomic segments of an H1N1 influenza A virus and found that this modification was well tolerated by the virus. We further demonstrated that an unrelated H3N2 influenza A virus could similarly support splicing and express a reporter protein from an artificial intron. These findings have implications for our understanding of how viruses expand their coding capacity with a limited genome. Additionally, encoding reporter proteins in spliced intronic sequences also represents a new method of generating reporter viruses requiring limited manipulation of the viral RNA.
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- Heather M. Froggatt
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Duke Human Vaccine Institute Duke University School of Medicine Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Yang J, Zhang P, Huang M, Qiao S, Liu Q, Chen H, Teng Q, Li X, Zhang Z, Yan D, Sun H, Li Z. Key amino acids of M1-41 and M2-27 determine growth and pathogenicity of chimeric H17 bat influenza virus in cells and in mice. J Virol 2021;:JVI0101921. [PMID: 34287044 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01019-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Based on our previous studies, we show that M gene is critical for viral replication and pathogenicity of the chimeric H17 bat influenza virus (Bat09:mH1mN1) by replacing bat M gene with those from human and swine influenza A viruses. However, the key amino acids of M1 and/or M2 proteins responsible for virus replication and pathogenicity remain unknown. In this study, the Eurasian avian-like M gene from the A/California/04/2009 pandemic H1N1 virus significantly decreased viral replication in both mammalian and avian cells in the background of chimeric H17 bat influenza virus by replacing the PR8 M gene. Further studies revealed that the M1 was more crucial for viral growth and pathogenicity in contrast to the M2, and amino acid residues of M1-41V and M2-27A were responsible for these characteristics in cells and in mice. These key residues of M1 and M2 proteins identified in this study might be important for influenza virus surveillance and used to produce live attenuated vaccines in the future. Importance The M1 and M2 proteins influence the morphology, replication, virulence and transmissibility of influenza viruses. Although a few key residues in M1/M2 proteins have been identified, whether other residues of M1/M2 proteins involved in viral replication and pathogenicity need to be discovered. In the background of chimeric H17 bat influenza virus, the Eurasian avian-like M gene from A/California/04/2009 significantly decreased viral growth in mammalian and avian cells. Further study showed that M1 was implicated more than M2 for viral growth and pathogenicity in vitro and in vivo, and the key amino acid residues of M1-41V and M2-27A were responsible for these characteristics in cells and in mice. These key residues of M1 and M2 proteins could be used for influenza virus surveillance and live attenuated vaccine application in the future. These findings provide important information for knowledge on the genetic basis of virulence of influenza viruses.
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He W, Gao Y, Wen Y, Ke X, Ou Z, Li Y, He H, Chen Q. Detection of Virus-Related Sequences Associated With Potential Etiologies of Hepatitis in Liver Tissue Samples From Rats, Mice, Shrews, and Bats. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:653873. [PMID: 34177835 PMCID: PMC8221242 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.653873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Hepatitis is a major global health concern. However, the etiology of 10-20% hepatitis cases remains unclear. Some hepatitis-associated viruses, like the hepatitis E virus, are zoonotic pathogens. Rats, shrews, and bats are reservoirs for many zoonotic pathogens. Therefore, understanding the virome in the liver of these animals is important for the investigation of the etiologies of hepatitis and monitoring the emerging zoonotic viruses. In this study, viral metagenomics and PCR methods were used to investigate viral communities in rats, mice, house shrews, and bats livers. Viral metagenomic analysis showed a diverse set of sequences in liver samples, comprising: sequences related to herpesviruses, orthomyxoviruses, anelloviruses, hepeviruses, hepadnaviruses, flaviviruses, parvoviruses, and picornaviruses. Using PCR methods, we first detected hepatovirus sequences in Hipposideros larvatus (3.85%). We also reported the first detection of Zika virus-related sequences in rats and house shrews. Sequences related to influenza A virus and herpesviruses were detected in liver. Higher detection rates of pegivirus sequences were found in liver tissue and serum samples from rats (7.85% and 15.79%, respectively) than from house shrews. Torque teno virus sequences had higher detection rates in the serum samples of rats and house shrews (52.72% and 5.26%, respectively) than in the liver. Near-full length genomes of pegivirus and torque teno virus were amplified. This study is the first to compare the viral communities in the liver of bats, rats, mice, and house shrews. Its findings expand our understanding of the virome in the liver of these animals and provide an insight into hepatitis-related viruses.
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- Wenqiao He
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Xiamen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Liu S, Mok BW, Deng S, Liu H, Wang P, Song W, Chen P, Huang X, Zheng M, Lau SY, Cremin CJ, Tam CY, Li B, Jiang L, Chen Y, Yuen KY, Chen H. Mammalian cells use the autophagy process to restrict avian influenza virus replication. Cell Rep 2021; 35:109213. [PMID: 34107256 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Revised: 04/07/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Host adaptive mutations in the influenza A virus (IAV) PB2 protein are critical for human infection, but their molecular action is not well understood. We observe that when IAV containing avian PB2 infects mammalian cells, viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) aggregates that localize to the microtubule-organizing center (MTOC) are formed. These vRNP aggregates resemble LC3B-associated autophagosome structures, with aggresome-like properties, in that they cause the re-distribution of vimentin. However, electron microscopy reveals that these aggregates represent an accumulation of autophagic vacuoles. Compared to mammalian-PB2 virus, avian-PB2 virus induces higher autophagic flux in infected cells, indicating an increased rate of autophagosomes containing avian vRNPs fusing with lysosomes. We found that p62 is essential for the formation of vRNP aggregates and that the Raptor-interacting region of p62 is required for interaction with vRNPs through the PB2 polymerase subunit. Selective autophagic sequestration during late-stage virus replication is thus an additional strategy for host restriction of avian-PB2 IAV.
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Yang J, Huang M, Qiao S, Zhang P, Teng Q, Li X, Liu Q, Chen H, Zhang Z, Yan D, Li Z. Replication and virulence of chimeric bat influenza viruses in mammalian and avian cells and in mice. Microb Pathog 2021; 157:104992. [PMID: 34044053 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2021.104992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Previous studies have shown that chimeric bat influenza viruses can be generated by reverse genetic system. However, the roles of the surface or internal genes of chimeric bat influenza viruses in viral replication and virulence in different host species were still not completely understood. In this study, we generated a chimeric H9N2 bat virus with both HA and NA surface genes from the avian A2093/H9N2 virus and compared its replication and virulence with the chimeric H1N1 bat virus with both HA and NA from the PR8/H1N1 virus in vitro and in mice. The chimeric H1N1 virus showed significantly higher replication in mammalian and avian cells and significantly higher virulence in mice than the chimeric H9N2 virus. Moreover, the chimeric H9N2 virus with the bat influenza internal M gene showed a higher replication in mammalian cells than in avian cells. While the chimeric H9N2 virus with the avian-origin viral M gene displayed a higher replication than that with the bat influenza M gene in avian cells, which likely resulted from increased receptor binding ability to α 2,3 sialic acid linked glycans of the former virus. Our study indicates that bat influenza internal genes are permissive in both mammalian and avian cells, and the bat influenza internal M gene shows more compatibility in mammals than in the avian host. Although the surface genes play more critical roles for viral replication in different host substrates, influenza M gene also potentially impacts on replication, virulence and host tropism.
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- Jianmei Yang
- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China; Animal Influenza and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Innovation Team, China.
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China; Animal Influenza and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Innovation Team, China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China; Animal Influenza and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Innovation Team, China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China; Animal Influenza and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Innovation Team, China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China
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- Animal Influenza and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Innovation Team, China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China; Animal Influenza and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Innovation Team, China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China; Animal Influenza and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Innovation Team, China.
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Kamat S, Kumari M. Repurposing Chloroquine Against Multiple Diseases With Special Attention to SARS-CoV-2 and Associated Toxicity. Front Pharmacol 2021; 12:576093. [PMID: 33912030 PMCID: PMC8072386 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2021.576093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Chloroquine and its derivatives have been used since ages to treat malaria and have also been approved by the FDA to treat autoimmune diseases. The drug employs pH-dependent inhibition of functioning and signalling of the endosome, lysosome and trans-Golgi network, immunomodulatory actions, inhibition of autophagy and interference with receptor binding to treat cancer and many viral diseases. The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has brought the whole world on the knees, seeking an urgent hunt for an anti-SARS-CoV-2 drug. Chloroquine has shown to inhibit receptor binding of the viral particles, interferes with their replication and inhibits "cytokine storm". Though multiple modes of actions have been employed by chloroquine against multiple diseases, viral diseases can provide an added advantage to establish the anti-SARS-CoV-2 mechanism, the in vitro and in vivo trials against SARS-CoV-2 have yielded mixed results. The toxicological effects and dosage optimization of chloroquine have been studied for many diseases, though it needs a proper evaluation again as chloroquine is also associated with several toxicities. Moreover, the drug is inexpensive and is readily available in many countries. Though much of the hope has been created by chloroquine and its derivatives against multiple diseases, repurposing it against SARS-CoV-2 requires large scale, collaborative, randomized and unbiased clinical trials to avoid false promises. This review summarizes the use and the mechanism of chloroquine against multiple diseases, its side-effects, mechanisms and the different clinical trials ongoing against "COVID-19".
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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Chen Z, Boon SS, Wang MH, Chan RWY, Chan PKS. Genomic and evolutionary comparison between SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses. J Virol Methods 2020; 289:114032. [PMID: 33290786 PMCID: PMC7718587 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2020.114032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Revised: 11/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Three highly pathogenic human coronaviruses can cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV). Although phylogenetic analyses have indicated ancient origin of human coronaviruses from animal relatives, their evolutionary history remains to be established. Using phylogenetics and “high order genomic structures” including trimer spectrums, codon usage and dinucleotide suppression, we observed distinct clustering of all human coronaviruses that formed phylogenetic clades with their closest animal relatives, indicating they have encompassed long evolutionary histories within specific ecological niches before jumping species barrier to infect humans. The close relationships between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 imply similar evolutionary origin. However, a lower Effective Codon Number (ENC) pattern and CpG dinucleotide suppression in SARS-CoV-2 genomes compared to SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV may imply a better host fitness, and thus their success in sustaining a pandemic. Characterization of coronavirus heterogeneity via complementary approaches enriches our understanding on the evolution and virus-host interaction of these emerging human pathogens while the underlying mechanistic basis in pathogenicity warrants further investigation.
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- Zigui Chen
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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- Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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- Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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Zhu Y, Wang R, Yu L, Sun H, Tian S, Li P, Jin M, Chen H, Ma W, Zhou H. Human TRA2A determines influenza A virus host adaptation by regulating viral mRNA splicing. Sci Adv 2020; 6:eaaz5764. [PMID: 32596447 PMCID: PMC7304988 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Several avian influenza A viruses (IAVs) have adapted to mammalian species, including humans. To date, the mechanisms enabling these host shifts remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that a host factor, human TRA2A (huTRA2A), inhibits avian IAV replication, but benefits human IAV replication by altered regulation of viral messenger RNA (mRNA) splicing. huTRA2A depresses mRNA splicing by binding to the intronic splicing silencer motif in the M mRNA of representative avian YS/H5N1 or in the NS mRNA of representative human PR8/H1N1 virus, leading to completely opposite effects on replication of the human and avian viruses in vitro and in vivo. We also confirm that the M-334 site and NS-234/236 sites are critical for TRA2A binding, mRNA splicing, viral replication, and pathogenicity. Our results reveal the underlying mechanisms of adaptation of avian influenza virus to human hosts, and suggest rational strategies to protect public health.
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- Yinxing Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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Bogdanow B, Wang X, Eichelbaum K, Sadewasser A, Husic I, Paki K, Budt M, Hergeselle M, Vetter B, Hou J, Chen W, Wiebusch L, Meyer IM, Wolff T, Selbach M. The dynamic proteome of influenza A virus infection identifies M segment splicing as a host range determinant. Nat Commun 2019; 10:5518. [PMID: 31797923 PMCID: PMC6892822 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13520-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Pandemic influenza A virus (IAV) outbreaks occur when strains from animal reservoirs acquire the ability to infect and spread among humans. The molecular basis of this species barrier is incompletely understood. Here we combine metabolic pulse labeling and quantitative proteomics to monitor protein synthesis upon infection of human cells with a human- and a bird-adapted IAV strain and observe striking differences in viral protein synthesis. Most importantly, the matrix protein M1 is inefficiently produced by the bird-adapted strain. We show that impaired production of M1 from bird-adapted strains is caused by increased splicing of the M segment RNA to alternative isoforms. Strain-specific M segment splicing is controlled by the 3' splice site and functionally important for permissive infection. In silico and biochemical evidence shows that avian-adapted M segments have evolved different conserved RNA structure features than human-adapted sequences. Thus, we identify M segment RNA splicing as a viral host range determinant.
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- Boris Bogdanow
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
- Unit 17 "Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses", Robert Koch Institut, Seestrase 10, 13353, Berlin, Germany
- Structural Interactomics, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
- Division of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Unit 17 "Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses", Robert Koch Institut, Seestrase 10, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Unit 17 "Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses", Robert Koch Institut, Seestrase 10, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Unit 17 "Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses", Robert Koch Institut, Seestrase 10, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Labor für Pädiatrische Molekularbiologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Xuanyuan Road 1088, 518055, Shenzhen, China
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- Labor für Pädiatrische Molekularbiologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
- Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Thielallee 63, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Unit 17 "Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses", Robert Koch Institut, Seestrase 10, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany.
- Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
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