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Adventitious Virus Detection in Cells by High-Throughput Sequencing of Newly Synthesized RNAs: Unambiguous Differentiation of Cell Infection from Carryover of Viral Nucleic Acids

The use of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) to identify viruses in biologicals differs from current molecular approaches, since its use enables an unbiased approach to detection without the need to design specific primers to preamplify target sequences. Its broad range of detection and analytical se...

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Autores principales: Cheval, Justine, Muth, Erika, Gonzalez, Gaëlle, Coulpier, Muriel, Beurdeley, Pascale, Cruveiller, Stéphane, Eloit, Marc
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Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6553555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31167947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00298-19
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author Cheval, Justine
Muth, Erika
Gonzalez, Gaëlle
Coulpier, Muriel
Beurdeley, Pascale
Cruveiller, Stéphane
Eloit, Marc
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Muth, Erika
Gonzalez, Gaëlle
Coulpier, Muriel
Beurdeley, Pascale
Cruveiller, Stéphane
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description The use of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) to identify viruses in biologicals differs from current molecular approaches, since its use enables an unbiased approach to detection without the need to design specific primers to preamplify target sequences. Its broad range of detection and analytical sensitivity make it an important tool to ensure that biologicals are free from adventitious viruses. Similar to other molecular methods, however, identification of viral sequences in cells by HTS does not prove viral infection, since this could reflect carryover of inert viral sequences from reagents or other sources or the presence of transcriptionally inactive cellular sequences. Due to the broad range of detection associated with HTS, the above can potentially be perceived as a drawback for the testing of pharmaceutical biological products using this method. In order to avoid the identification of inert viral sequences, we present a methodology based on metabolic RNA labeling and sequencing, which enables the specific identification of newly synthesized viral RNAs in infected cells, resulting in the ability to unambiguously distinguish active infection by DNA or RNA viruses from inert nucleic acids. In the present study, we report the ability to differentiate Vero cells acutely infected by a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus (tick-borne encephalitis virus) from cells which have been in contact with nonreplicating virus particles. Additionally, we also found a laboratory contamination by the squirrel monkey retrovirus of our Vero cell line, which was derived from an Old World (African green) monkey, a type of contamination which until now has been identified only in cells derived from primates from the New World. IMPORTANCE The use of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) to identify viral contamination of biological products is extremely sensitive and provides a broad range of detection. Nevertheless, viral sequences identified can also be inert. Examples include contamination resulting from reagents or the presence of inactivated viruses in animal-derived components of the cell culture medium. We therefore developed a method that relies on the sequencing of newly synthesized RNAs, an unequivocal sign of the presence of a transcriptionally active virus. This improvement in the specificity of viral testing increases the acceptability of HTS as a standard test for cells used in manufacturing biologicals and in biotherapies.
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spelling pubmed-65535552019-06-14 Adventitious Virus Detection in Cells by High-Throughput Sequencing of Newly Synthesized RNAs: Unambiguous Differentiation of Cell Infection from Carryover of Viral Nucleic Acids Cheval, Justine Muth, Erika Gonzalez, Gaëlle Coulpier, Muriel Beurdeley, Pascale Cruveiller, Stéphane Eloit, Marc mSphere Research Article The use of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) to identify viruses in biologicals differs from current molecular approaches, since its use enables an unbiased approach to detection without the need to design specific primers to preamplify target sequences. Its broad range of detection and analytical sensitivity make it an important tool to ensure that biologicals are free from adventitious viruses. Similar to other molecular methods, however, identification of viral sequences in cells by HTS does not prove viral infection, since this could reflect carryover of inert viral sequences from reagents or other sources or the presence of transcriptionally inactive cellular sequences. Due to the broad range of detection associated with HTS, the above can potentially be perceived as a drawback for the testing of pharmaceutical biological products using this method. In order to avoid the identification of inert viral sequences, we present a methodology based on metabolic RNA labeling and sequencing, which enables the specific identification of newly synthesized viral RNAs in infected cells, resulting in the ability to unambiguously distinguish active infection by DNA or RNA viruses from inert nucleic acids. In the present study, we report the ability to differentiate Vero cells acutely infected by a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus (tick-borne encephalitis virus) from cells which have been in contact with nonreplicating virus particles. Additionally, we also found a laboratory contamination by the squirrel monkey retrovirus of our Vero cell line, which was derived from an Old World (African green) monkey, a type of contamination which until now has been identified only in cells derived from primates from the New World. IMPORTANCE The use of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) to identify viral contamination of biological products is extremely sensitive and provides a broad range of detection. Nevertheless, viral sequences identified can also be inert. Examples include contamination resulting from reagents or the presence of inactivated viruses in animal-derived components of the cell culture medium. We therefore developed a method that relies on the sequencing of newly synthesized RNAs, an unequivocal sign of the presence of a transcriptionally active virus. This improvement in the specificity of viral testing increases the acceptability of HTS as a standard test for cells used in manufacturing biologicals and in biotherapies. American Society for Microbiology 2019-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6553555/ /pubmed/31167947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00298-19 Text en Copyright © 2019 Cheval 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/) .
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Cheval, Justine
Muth, Erika
Gonzalez, Gaëlle
Coulpier, Muriel
Beurdeley, Pascale
Cruveiller, Stéphane
Eloit, Marc
Adventitious Virus Detection in Cells by High-Throughput Sequencing of Newly Synthesized RNAs: Unambiguous Differentiation of Cell Infection from Carryover of Viral Nucleic Acids
title Adventitious Virus Detection in Cells by High-Throughput Sequencing of Newly Synthesized RNAs: Unambiguous Differentiation of Cell Infection from Carryover of Viral Nucleic Acids
title_full Adventitious Virus Detection in Cells by High-Throughput Sequencing of Newly Synthesized RNAs: Unambiguous Differentiation of Cell Infection from Carryover of Viral Nucleic Acids
title_fullStr Adventitious Virus Detection in Cells by High-Throughput Sequencing of Newly Synthesized RNAs: Unambiguous Differentiation of Cell Infection from Carryover of Viral Nucleic Acids
title_full_unstemmed Adventitious Virus Detection in Cells by High-Throughput Sequencing of Newly Synthesized RNAs: Unambiguous Differentiation of Cell Infection from Carryover of Viral Nucleic Acids
title_short Adventitious Virus Detection in Cells by High-Throughput Sequencing of Newly Synthesized RNAs: Unambiguous Differentiation of Cell Infection from Carryover of Viral Nucleic Acids
title_sort adventitious virus detection in cells by high-throughput sequencing of newly synthesized rnas: unambiguous differentiation of cell infection from carryover of viral nucleic acids
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6553555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31167947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00298-19
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