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Selective Packaging in Murine Coronavirus Promotes Virulence by Limiting Type I Interferon Responses
Selective packaging is a mechanism used by multiple virus families to specifically incorporate genomic RNA (gRNA) into virions and exclude other types of RNA. Lineage A betacoronaviruses incorporate a 95-bp stem-loop structure, the packaging signal (PS), into the nsp15 locus of ORF1b that is both ne...
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American Society for Microbiology
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29717007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00272-18 |
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author | Athmer, Jeremiah Fehr, Anthony R. Grunewald, Matthew E. Qu, Wen Wheeler, D. Lori Graepel, Kevin W. Channappanavar, Rudragouda Sekine, Aimee Aldabeeb, Dana Saud Gale, Michael Denison, Mark R. Perlman, Stanley |
author_facet | Athmer, Jeremiah Fehr, Anthony R. Grunewald, Matthew E. Qu, Wen Wheeler, D. Lori Graepel, Kevin W. Channappanavar, Rudragouda Sekine, Aimee Aldabeeb, Dana Saud Gale, Michael Denison, Mark R. Perlman, Stanley |
author_sort | Athmer, Jeremiah |
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description | Selective packaging is a mechanism used by multiple virus families to specifically incorporate genomic RNA (gRNA) into virions and exclude other types of RNA. Lineage A betacoronaviruses incorporate a 95-bp stem-loop structure, the packaging signal (PS), into the nsp15 locus of ORF1b that is both necessary and sufficient for the packaging of RNAs. However, unlike other viral PSs, where mutations generally resulted in viral replication defects, mutation of the coronavirus (CoV) PS results in large increases in subgenomic RNA packaging with minimal effects on gRNA packaging in vitro and on viral titers. Here, we show that selective packaging is also required for viral evasion of the innate immune response and optimal pathogenicity. We engineered two distinct PS mutants in two different strains of murine hepatitis virus (MHV) that packaged increased levels of subgenomic RNAs, negative-sense genomic RNA, and even cellular RNAs. All PS mutant viruses replicated normally in vitro but caused dramatically reduced lethality and weight loss in vivo. PS mutant virus infection of bone marrow-derived macrophages resulted in increased interferon (IFN) production, indicating that the innate immune system limited the replication and/or pathogenesis of PS mutant viruses in vivo. PS mutant viruses remained attenuated in MAVS(−/−) and Toll-like receptor 7-knockout (TLR7(−/−)) mice, two well-known RNA sensors for CoVs, but virulence was restored in interferon alpha/beta receptor-knockout (IFNAR(−/−)) mice or in MAVS(−/−) mice treated with IFNAR-blocking antibodies. Together, these data indicate that coronaviruses promote virulence by utilizing selective packaging to avoid innate immune detection. |
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spelling | pubmed-59303042018-05-04 Selective Packaging in Murine Coronavirus Promotes Virulence by Limiting Type I Interferon Responses Athmer, Jeremiah Fehr, Anthony R. Grunewald, Matthew E. Qu, Wen Wheeler, D. Lori Graepel, Kevin W. Channappanavar, Rudragouda Sekine, Aimee Aldabeeb, Dana Saud Gale, Michael Denison, Mark R. Perlman, Stanley mBio Research Article Selective packaging is a mechanism used by multiple virus families to specifically incorporate genomic RNA (gRNA) into virions and exclude other types of RNA. Lineage A betacoronaviruses incorporate a 95-bp stem-loop structure, the packaging signal (PS), into the nsp15 locus of ORF1b that is both necessary and sufficient for the packaging of RNAs. However, unlike other viral PSs, where mutations generally resulted in viral replication defects, mutation of the coronavirus (CoV) PS results in large increases in subgenomic RNA packaging with minimal effects on gRNA packaging in vitro and on viral titers. Here, we show that selective packaging is also required for viral evasion of the innate immune response and optimal pathogenicity. We engineered two distinct PS mutants in two different strains of murine hepatitis virus (MHV) that packaged increased levels of subgenomic RNAs, negative-sense genomic RNA, and even cellular RNAs. All PS mutant viruses replicated normally in vitro but caused dramatically reduced lethality and weight loss in vivo. PS mutant virus infection of bone marrow-derived macrophages resulted in increased interferon (IFN) production, indicating that the innate immune system limited the replication and/or pathogenesis of PS mutant viruses in vivo. PS mutant viruses remained attenuated in MAVS(−/−) and Toll-like receptor 7-knockout (TLR7(−/−)) mice, two well-known RNA sensors for CoVs, but virulence was restored in interferon alpha/beta receptor-knockout (IFNAR(−/−)) mice or in MAVS(−/−) mice treated with IFNAR-blocking antibodies. Together, these data indicate that coronaviruses promote virulence by utilizing selective packaging to avoid innate immune detection. American Society for Microbiology 2018-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5930304/ /pubmed/29717007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00272-18 Text en Copyright © 2018 Athmer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Athmer, Jeremiah Fehr, Anthony R. Grunewald, Matthew E. Qu, Wen Wheeler, D. Lori Graepel, Kevin W. Channappanavar, Rudragouda Sekine, Aimee Aldabeeb, Dana Saud Gale, Michael Denison, Mark R. Perlman, Stanley Selective Packaging in Murine Coronavirus Promotes Virulence by Limiting Type I Interferon Responses |
title | Selective Packaging in Murine Coronavirus Promotes Virulence by Limiting Type I Interferon Responses |
title_full | Selective Packaging in Murine Coronavirus Promotes Virulence by Limiting Type I Interferon Responses |
title_fullStr | Selective Packaging in Murine Coronavirus Promotes Virulence by Limiting Type I Interferon Responses |
title_full_unstemmed | Selective Packaging in Murine Coronavirus Promotes Virulence by Limiting Type I Interferon Responses |
title_short | Selective Packaging in Murine Coronavirus Promotes Virulence by Limiting Type I Interferon Responses |
title_sort | selective packaging in murine coronavirus promotes virulence by limiting type i interferon responses |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29717007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00272-18 |
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