دورية أكاديمية

Genome-Wide Mutagenesis Reveals That ORF7 Is a Novel VZV Skin-Tropic Factor

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Genome-Wide Mutagenesis Reveals That ORF7 Is a Novel VZV Skin-Tropic Factor
المؤلفون: Zhen Zhang, Anca Selariu, Charles Warden, Grace Huang, Ying Huang, Oluleke Zaccheus, Tong Cheng, Ningshao Xia, 夏宁邵, Hua Zhu
المصدر: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000971Test.
سنة النشر: 2010
المجموعة: Xiamen University Institutional Repository
مصطلحات موضوعية: VARICELLA-ZOSTER-VIRUS, REPLICATION IN-VITRO, SCID-HU MOUSE, FRAME-66 PROTEIN-KINASE, VIRAL REPLICATION, CELL-CULTURE, T-CELLS, MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS, HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS, GLYCOPROTEIN-I
الوصف: This work was funded by NIH grant AI050709 (HZ). ; The Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) is a ubiquitous human alpha-herpesvirus that is the causative agent of chicken pox and shingles. Although an attenuated VZV vaccine (v-Oka) has been widely used in children in the United States, chicken pox outbreaks are still seen, and the shingles vaccine only reduces the risk of shingles by 50%. Therefore, VZV still remains an important public health concern. Knowledge of VZV replication and pathogenesis remains limited due to its highly cell-associated nature in cultured cells, the difficulty of generating recombinant viruses, and VZV's almost exclusive tropism for human cells and tissues. In order to circumvent these hurdles, we cloned the entire VZV (p-Oka) genome into a bacterial artificial chromosome that included a dual-reporter system (GFP and luciferase reporter genes). We used PCR-based mutagenesis and the homologous recombination system in the E. coli to individually delete each of the genome's 70 unique ORFs. The collection of viral mutants obtained was systematically examined both in MeWo cells and in cultured human fetal skin organ samples. We use our genome-wide deletion library to provide novel functional annotations to 51% of the VZV proteome. We found 44 out of 70 VZV ORFs to be essential for viral replication. Among the 26 non-essential ORF deletion mutants, eight have discernable growth defects in MeWo. Interestingly, four ORFs were found to be required for viral replication in skin organ cultures, but not in MeWo cells, suggesting their potential roles as skin tropism factors. One of the genes (ORF7) has never been described as a skin tropic factor. The global profiling of the VZV genome gives further insights into the replication and pathogenesis of this virus, which can lead to improved prevention and therapy of chicken pox and shingles.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1553-7366
العلاقة: Plos Pathogens, 2010,6(7); ISI:000280527000006; http://dspace.xmu.edu.cn/handle/2288/65067Test
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000971Test
http://dspace.xmu.edu.cn/handle/2288/65067Test
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.BCE8F2ED
قاعدة البيانات: BASE