Dataset Information

Enhancing dengue virus maturation using a stable furin over-expressing cell line.

ABSTRACT: Flaviviruses are positive-stranded RNA viruses that incorporate envelope (E) and premembrane (prM) proteins into the virion. Furin-mediated cleavage of prM defines a required maturation step in the flavivirus lifecycle. Inefficient prM cleavage results in structurally heterogeneous virions with unique antigenic and functional characteristics. Recent studies with dengue virus suggest that viruses produced in tissue culture cells are less mature than those produced in primary cells. In this study, we describe a Vero cell line that ectopically expresses high levels of human furin (Vero-furin) for use in the production of more homogenous mature flavivirus populations. Laboratory-adapted and clinical dengue virus isolates grow efficiently in Vero-furin cells. Biochemical and structural techniques demonstrate efficient prM cleavage in Vero-furin derived virus preparations. These virions also were less sensitive to neutralization by antibodies that bind efficiently to immature virions. This furin-expressing cell line will be of considerable utility for flavivirus neutralization and structural studies.

SUBMITTER: Mukherjee S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5502530 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACCESS DATA

Publications

Enhancing dengue virus maturation using a stable furin over-expressing cell line.

Mukherjee Swati S Sirohi Devika D Dowd Kimberly A KA Chen Zhenguo Z Diamond Michael S MS Kuhn Richard J RJ Pierson Theodore C TC

Virology 20160713

Flaviviruses are positive-stranded RNA viruses that incorporate envelope (E) and premembrane (prM) proteins into the virion. Furin-mediated cleavage of prM defines a required maturation step in the flavivirus lifecycle. Inefficient prM cleavage results in structurally heterogeneous virions with unique antigenic and functional characteristics. Recent studies with dengue virus suggest that viruses produced in tissue culture cells are less mature than those produced in primary cells. In this study, ...[more]

PMID: 27420797

Similar Datasets

Project description:BACKGROUND: Progress in dengue vaccine development has been hampered by limited understanding of protective immunity against dengue virus infection. Conventional neutralizing antibody titration assays that use Fc?R-negative cells do not consider possible infection-enhancement activity. We reasoned that as Fc?R-expressing cells are the major target cells of dengue virus, neutralizing antibody titration assays using Fc?R-expressing cells that determine the sum of neutralizing and infection-enhancing activity, may better reflect the biological properties of antibodies in vivo. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We evaluated serum samples from 80 residents of a dengue endemic country, Malaysia, for neutralizing activity, and infection-enhancing activity at 1?10 serum dilution by using Fc?R-negative BHK cells and Fc?R-expressing BHK cells. The serum samples consisted of a panel of patients with acute DENV infection (31%, 25/80) and a panel of donors without acute DENV infection (69%, 55/80). A high proportion of the tested serum samples (75%, 60/80) demonstrated DENV neutralizing activity (PRNT(50)?10) and infection-enhancing activity. Eleven of 18 serum samples from patients with acute secondary DENV infection demonstrated neutralizing activity to the infecting serotype determined by using Fc?R-negative BHK cells (PRNT(50)?10), but not when determined by using Fc?R-expressing cells. CONCLUSION: Human serum samples with low neutralizing activity determined by using Fc?R-negative cells showed DENV infection-enhancing activity using Fc?R-expressing cells, whereas those with high neutralizing activity determined by using Fc?R-negative cells demonstrate low or no infection-enhancing activity using Fc?R-expressing cells. The results suggest an inverse relationship between neutralizing antibody titer and infection-enhancing activity, and that neutralizing activity determined by using Fc?R-expressing cells, and not the activity determined by using Fc?R-negative cells, may better reflect protection to DENV infection in vivo.

Project description:Heterologously expressed hERG channels represent a mainstay of in vitro drug safety screens intended to mitigate risk of cardiac IKr block and sudden cardiac death. This is true even as more channel types are adopted as part of the Comprehensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA) intended to elevate specificity and thus enhance throughput of promising lead drugs. Until now, hERG1a homomeric channels have been used as a proxy for IKr despite a wealth of evidence showing that hERG1a/1b heteromers better represent native channels in terms of protein abundance and channel biophysical and pharmacological properties. Past efforts to create a stable hERG1a/1b cell line were met with unpredictable silencing of hERG1b expression despite stable integration of the gene into the HEK293 cell genome. Here we report a new cell line stably expressing hERG1a, with hERG1b reliably controlled by an inducible promoter sensitive to doxycycline. Co-immunoprecipitation, Western blot analysis and patch-clamp electrophysiology confirm the heteromeric composition of the expressed channels. Association with hERG1b was found to promote hERG1a protein levels and enhance membrane current levels. Optimal conditions for drug screening and experimental investigation were achieved at 24 h exposure to 100 ng/ml doxycycline. Differences in pharmacological sensitivity between homomeric and heteromeric channels were observed for dofetilide and ebastine, but not fluoxetine, as evaluated by their IC50 values. Using these values in the O'Hara-Rudy-CiPA in silico model revealed discrepancies in pro-arrhythmia risk, implying the hERG1a homomeric platform overestimates risk for these two drugs. Dofetilide block was use-dependent and faster for hERG1a/1b than hERG1a channels, whereas ebastine showed considerable block at rest and had a slower progression for hERG1a/1b channels. The hERG1a/1b cell line thus represents an advanced model for contemporary drug safety screening assays such as CiPA that employ IC50 values to estimate risk of proarrhythmia in computational models of ventricular cardiomyocytes. This novel technology fulfills an unmet need to enhance specificity and foster a safe yet expanded drug development pipeline.

Project description:Antibodies are critical responses to protect the host from dengue virus(DENV) infection. Antibodies target DENV by two pathologic mechanisms: virus neutralization and infection enhancement. In dengue patients, the absence of neutralizing activity in the presence of Fc?R implies that infection-enhancing activity hampers the neutralizing activity of antibodies, which could potentially lead to symptomatic presentations and severe clinical outcomes.A total of 100 pair serum samples from adult healthy volunteers were obtained during the dengue season in Ha Noi in 2015 for evaluation of neutralizing and infection-enhancing activity. Additionally, 20 serum samples from acute secondary DENV infection patients were also used as the patient group in this study. PRNT was performed on BHK cells and Fc?R-expressing BHK cell lines for all serum samples.Out of 100 residents, positive neutralizing antibodies (N.A) were found in 44.23 and 76.92% for DENV-1; 38.46 and 75% for DENV-2; 19.23 and 15.38% for DENV-3; and 1.92 and 9.62% for DENV-4 for pre and post-dengue season respectively. The percentage of post-exposure residents having positive responses against single, two, or more than three DENV serotypes were 38.46, 44.23 and 15.38%, respectively. A total of 34 residents were DENV seropositive before the dengue season and these individuals demonstrated further elevation of IgG antibodies after the dengue season. At the end of the season, 18 residents were confirmed to be new asymptomatic DENV infection cases. In both groups, N.A titers determined on BHK cells were higher than that on Fc?R-expressing BHK cells. In heterotypic N.A responses, N.A titers to the infecting serotype from the samples obtained from pre-exposure group were significantly higher than those of the patient group. However, fold enhancement to the infecting serotypes from the samples in the pre-exposure group was substantially lower as compared to that of the patient group.Before and after the dengue season, serum samples from healthy volunteers demonstrated high levels of neutralizing antibodies and low or absence of infection-enhancement activity. The results suggest that while infection-enhancement activity hampers neutralizing activity of antibodies, high levels of DENV neutralizing antibodies set a critical threshold in facilitating the prevention of disease progression.

Dataset Information

Enhancing dengue virus maturation using a stable furin over-expressing cell line.

Publications

Enhancing dengue virus maturation using a stable furin over-expressing cell line.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure