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Zika virus disrupts molecular fingerprinting of human neurospheres.

ABSTRACT: Zika virus (ZIKV) has been associated with microcephaly and other brain abnormalities; however, the molecular consequences of ZIKV to human brain development are still not fully understood. Here we describe alterations in human neurospheres derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells infected with the strain of Zika virus that is circulating in Brazil. Combining proteomics and mRNA transcriptional profiling, over 500 proteins and genes associated with the Brazilian ZIKV infection were found to be differentially expressed. These genes and proteins provide an interactome map, which indicates that ZIKV controls the expression of RNA processing bodies, miRNA biogenesis and splicing factors required for self-replication. It also suggests that impairments in the molecular pathways underpinning cell cycle and neuronal differentiation are caused by ZIKV. These results point to biological mechanisms implicated in brain malformations, which are important to further the understanding of ZIKV infection and can be exploited as therapeutic potential targets to mitigate it.

SUBMITTER: Garcez PP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5256095 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Zika virus disrupts molecular fingerprinting of human neurospheres.

Garcez Patricia P PP Nascimento Juliana Minardi JM de Vasconcelos Janaina Mota JM Madeiro da Costa Rodrigo R Delvecchio Rodrigo R Trindade Pablo P Loiola Erick Correia EC Higa Luiza M LM Cassoli Juliana S JS Vitória Gabriela G Sequeira Patricia C PC Sochacki Jaroslaw J Aguiar Renato S RS Fuzii Hellen Thais HT de Filippis Ana M Bispo AM da Silva Gonçalves Vianez Júnior João Lídio JL Tanuri Amilcar A Martins-de-Souza Daniel D Rehen Stevens K SK

Scientific reports 20170123

Zika virus (ZIKV) has been associated with microcephaly and other brain abnormalities; however, the molecular consequences of ZIKV to human brain development are still not fully understood. Here we describe alterations in human neurospheres derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells infected with the strain of Zika virus that is circulating in Brazil. Combining proteomics and mRNA transcriptional profiling, over 500 proteins and genes associated with the Brazilian ZIKV infection were foun ...[more]

PMID: 28112162

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