Deep sequencing after alcelaphine gammaherpesvirus 1 infection reveals the nature of CD8+ T cell expansion and identify an essential viral protein for fatal bovine malignant catarrhal fever
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PROVIDER: GSE253729 | GEO | 2024/05/01
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Project description:Alcelaphine gammaherpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) is a member of the Gammaherpesvirinae subfamily and establishes asymptomatic latent infection in its natural host species, the wildebeest. Cross-species transmission to various ruminant species including cattle can occur, resulting in the induction of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), a deadly peripheral T cell lymphoproliferative disease. Here, we experimentally infected calves to confirm that AlHV-1 latency-associated gene expression is essential for persistent infection of CD8+ T cells and MCF development. Then, deep sequencing of the T cell receptor repertoire revealed an oligoclonal expansion of peripheral CD8+ T cells during bovine MCF, associated with transcriptomic and epigenetic changes identified by (sc)RNA-seq and ATAC-seq analyses which indicated a mixed effector/memory and exhaustion phenotype of infected cells in vivo. Analysis of the viral genome transcription identified viral genomic regions being expressed in infected CD8+ T cells, such as the region predicted to encode the gene A10. A10 encodes a transmembrane signaling protein displaying multiple tyrosine residues, with predicted ITAM and SH3 motifs. We could demonstrate that impaired expression of A10 did not affect AlHV-1 replication in vitro but rendered AlHV-1 unable to induce MCF in the rabbit experimental model, and we showed that A10 is phosphorylated in T lymphocytes in vitro and affects T cell signaling. Finally, while AlHV-1 viruses expressing mutated forms of A10 devoid of ITAM and/or SH3 motifs could induce MCF, an A10 knock-in viral mutant unable to phosphorylate tyrosine residues resulted in the absence of MCF development. Overall, we identified AlHV-1-induced phenotypic changes in CD8+ T cells during MCF and demonstrated that A10 expression in infected CD8+ T lymphocytes results in the dysregulation of T cell signaling and MCF.
2024-05-01 | GSE253762 | GEO
Project description:Alcelaphine gammaherpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) is a member of the Gammaherpesvirinae subfamily and establishes asymptomatic latent infection in its natural host species, the wildebeest. Cross-species transmission to various ruminant species including cattle can occur, resulting in the induction of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), a deadly peripheral T cell lymphoproliferative disease. Here, we experimentally infected calves to confirm that AlHV-1 latency-associated gene expression is essential for persistent infection of CD8+ T cells and MCF development. Then, deep sequencing of the T cell receptor repertoire revealed an oligoclonal expansion of peripheral CD8+ T cells during bovine MCF, associated with transcriptomic and epigenetic changes identified by (sc)RNA-seq and ATAC-seq analyses which indicated a mixed effector/memory and exhaustion phenotype of infected cells in vivo. Analysis of the viral genome transcription identified viral genomic regions being expressed in infected CD8+ T cells, such as the region predicted to encode the gene A10. A10 encodes a transmembrane signaling protein displaying multiple tyrosine residues, with predicted ITAM and SH3 motifs. We could demonstrate that impaired expression of A10 did not affect AlHV-1 replication in vitro but rendered AlHV-1 unable to induce MCF in the rabbit experimental model, and we showed that A10 is phosphorylated in T lymphocytes in vitro and affects T cell signaling. Finally, while AlHV-1 viruses expressing mutated forms of A10 devoid of ITAM and/or SH3 motifs could induce MCF, an A10 knock-in viral mutant unable to phosphorylate tyrosine residues resulted in the absence of MCF development. Overall, we identified AlHV-1-induced phenotypic changes in CD8+ T cells during MCF and demonstrated that A10 expression in infected CD8+ T lymphocytes results in the dysregulation of T cell signaling and MCF.
2024-05-01 | GSE253728 | GEO
Project description:Alcelaphine gammaherpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) is a member of the Gammaherpesvirinae subfamily and establishes asymptomatic latent infection in its natural host species, the wildebeest. Cross-species transmission to various ruminant species including cattle can occur, resulting in the induction of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), a deadly peripheral T cell lymphoproliferative disease. Here, we experimentally infected calves to confirm that AlHV-1 latency-associated gene expression is essential for persistent infection of CD8+ T cells and MCF development. Then, deep sequencing of the T cell receptor repertoire revealed an oligoclonal expansion of peripheral CD8+ T cells during bovine MCF, associated with transcriptomic and epigenetic changes identified by (sc)RNA-seq and ATAC-seq analyses which indicated a mixed effector/memory and exhaustion phenotype of infected cells in vivo. Analysis of the viral genome transcription identified viral genomic regions being expressed in infected CD8+ T cells, such as the region predicted to encode the gene A10. A10 encodes a transmembrane signaling protein displaying multiple tyrosine residues, with predicted ITAM and SH3 motifs. We could demonstrate that impaired expression of A10 did not affect AlHV-1 replication in vitro but rendered AlHV-1 unable to induce MCF in the rabbit experimental model, and we showed that A10 is phosphorylated in T lymphocytes in vitro and affects T cell signaling. Finally, while AlHV-1 viruses expressing mutated forms of A10 devoid of ITAM and/or SH3 motifs could induce MCF, an A10 knock-in viral mutant unable to phosphorylate tyrosine residues resulted in the absence of MCF development. Overall, we identified AlHV-1-induced phenotypic changes in CD8+ T cells during MCF and demonstrated that A10 expression in infected CD8+ T lymphocytes results in the dysregulation of T cell signaling and MCF.
2024-05-01 | GSE253727 | GEO
Project description:Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) is a ?-herpesvirus (?-HV) carried asymptomatically by wildebeest. Upon cross-species transmission, AlHV-1 induces an acute and fatal lymphoproliferative disease named malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) in many ruminants, including cattle and the rabbit model. Latency has been shown to be essential for MCF induction. However, the mechanisms causing the activation and proliferation of infected CD8+ T cells are unknown. Many ?-HVs express microRNAs (miRNAs). These small noncoding RNAs can suppress host or viral target genes involved in various pathways and are thought to facilitate viral infection and/or mediate activation and proliferation of infected lymphocytes. AlHV-1 genome has been predicted to encode a large number of miRNAs. However, their precise contribution in viral infection and pathogenesis in vivo remains unknown. Here, we have cloned small RNAs and sequenced 36 potential miRNAs expressed in a lymphoblastoid cell line propagated from a calf infected with AlHV-1 and developing MCF. Among the sequenced candidate miRNAs, 32 were expressed on the reverse strand of the genome in two main clusters. The expression of these 32 viral miRNAs was further validated using Northern blot and qRT-PCR in lymphoid organs of MCF-developing calves or rabbits. To determine the concerted contribution in MCF of 28 viral miRNAs clustered in the non-protein-coding region of the AlHV-1 genome, a recombinant virus was produced. The absence of these 28 miRNAs did not affect viral growth in vitro nor MCF induction in rabbits, demonstrating that AlHV-1 miRNAs clustered in the non-protein-coding genomic region are not essential for MCF induction. Small RNA sequencing from total RNA from AlHV-1-infected bovine lymphoblastoid cell line propagated with interleukin 2
2015-08-27 | E-GEOD-71056 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) is a γ-herpesvirus (γ-HV) carried asymptomatically by wildebeest. Upon cross-species transmission, AlHV-1 induces an acute and fatal lymphoproliferative disease named malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) in many ruminants, including cattle and the rabbit model. Latency has been shown to be essential for MCF induction. However, the mechanisms causing the activation and proliferation of infected CD8+ T cells are unknown. Many γ-HVs express microRNAs (miRNAs). These small noncoding RNAs can suppress host or viral target genes involved in various pathways and are thought to facilitate viral infection and/or mediate activation and proliferation of infected lymphocytes. AlHV-1 genome has been predicted to encode a large number of miRNAs. However, their precise contribution in viral infection and pathogenesis in vivo remains unknown. Here, we have cloned small RNAs and sequenced 36 potential miRNAs expressed in a lymphoblastoid cell line propagated from a calf infected with AlHV-1 and developing MCF. Among the sequenced candidate miRNAs, 32 were expressed on the reverse strand of the genome in two main clusters. The expression of these 32 viral miRNAs was further validated using Northern blot and qRT-PCR in lymphoid organs of MCF-developing calves or rabbits. To determine the concerted contribution in MCF of 28 viral miRNAs clustered in the non-protein-coding region of the AlHV-1 genome, a recombinant virus was produced. The absence of these 28 miRNAs did not affect viral growth in vitro nor MCF induction in rabbits, demonstrating that AlHV-1 miRNAs clustered in the non-protein-coding genomic region are not essential for MCF induction.
2015-08-27 | GSE71056 | GEO
Project description:Alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 (AlHV-1), a causative agent of malignant catarrhal fever in cattle, was detected in wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) placenta tissue for the first time. Although viral load was low, the finding of viral DNA in over 50% of 94 samples tested lends support to the possibility that placental tissue could play a role in disease transmission and that wildebeest calves are infected in utero. Two viral loci were sequenced to examine variation among virus samples obtained from wildebeest and cattle: the ORF50 gene, encoding the lytic cycle transactivator protein, and the A9.5 gene, encoding a novel polymorphic viral glycoprotein. ORF50 was well conserved with six newly discovered alleles differing at only one or two base positions. In contrast, while only three new A9.5 alleles were discovered, these differed by up to 13% at the nucleotide level and up to 20% at the amino acid level. Structural homology searching performed with the additional A9.5 sequences determined in this study adds power to recent analysis identifying the four-helix bundle cytokine interleukin-4 (IL4) as the major homologue. The majority of MCF virus samples obtained from Tanzanian cattle and wildebeest encoded A9.5 polypeptides identical to the previously characterized A9.5 allele present in the laboratory maintained AlHV-1 C500 strain. This supports the view that AlHV-1 C500 is suitable for the development of a vaccine for wildebeest-associated MCF.
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Project description:Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) is a gammaherpesvirus that is carried asymptomatically by wildebeest. Upon cross-species transmission to other ruminants, including domestic cattle, AlHV-1 induces malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), which is a fatal lymphoproliferative disease resulting from proliferation and uncontrolled activation of latently infected CD8+ T cells. Two laboratory strains of AlHV-1 are used commonly in research: C500, which is pathogenic, and WC11, which has been attenuated by long-term maintenance in cell culture. The published genome sequence of a WC11 seed stock from a German laboratory revealed the deletion of two major regions. The sequence of a WC11 seed stock used in our laboratory also bears these deletions and, in addition, the duplication of an internal sequence in the terminal region. The larger of the two deletions has resulted in the absence of gene A7 and a large portion of gene A8. These genes are positional orthologs of the Epstein-Barr virus genes encoding envelope glycoproteins gp42 and gp350, respectively, which are involved in viral propagation and switching of cell tropism. To investigate the degree to which the absence of A7 and A8 participates in WC11 attenuation, recombinant viruses lacking these individual functions were generated in C500. Using bovine nasal turbinate and embryonic lung cell lines, increased cell-free viral propagation and impaired syncytia formation were observed in the absence of A7, whereas cell-free viral spread was inhibited in the absence of A8. Therefore, A7 appears to be involved in cell-to-cell viral spread, and A8 in viral cell-free propagation. Finally, infection of rabbits with either mutant did not induce the signs of MCF or the expansion of infected CD8+ T cells. These results demonstrate that A7 and A8 are both essential for regulating viral spread and suggest that AlHV-1 requires both genes to efficiently spread in vivo and reach CD8+ T lymphocytes and induce MCF.
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Project description:Sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever (SA-MCF) is a severe, frequently fatal, lymphoproliferative disease that affects a wide variety of ruminants and is caused by ovine gammaherpesvirus 2 (OvHV-2), a member of the MCF virus (MCFV) complex. The typical clinical manifestations of SA-MCF are well known and easily recognized by veterinarians, resulting in clinical diagnosis of MCF when characteristic clinical signs are present. This article describes the findings observed in cattle infected with OvHV-2 but without typical clinical manifestations of SA-MCF. Three calves with episodes of diarrhea before death and a yearling that died suddenly were investigated. Gross alterations were not suggestive of SA-MCF. Histopathology revealed a combination of proliferating vascular lesions (PVLs) and necrotizing vasculitis in three animals (two calves and the yearling); with PVLs being identified only at the carotid rete mirabile of two calves infected with OvHV-2. Additional significant histopathologic lesions included atrophic enteritis, portal lymphocytic hepatitis, interstitial pneumonia, suppurative bacterial bronchopneumonia, and pulmonary hemorrhage. An immunohistochemical assay designed to identify only antigens of MCFV revealed, positive, intralesional, intracytoplasmic immunoreactivity within epithelial cells of multiple tissues of all animals with PVLs. PCR assays amplified OvHV-2 DNA from multiple tissues of the animals that contained MCFV proteins, confirming the MCFV identified as OvHV-2. Additionally, bovine coronavirus (BCoV) nucleic acids were amplified from tissues of all animals, including the animal not infected by OvHV-2. Collectively, these findings confirmed the participation of OvHV-2 in the development of the disease patterns observed in these animals that were concomitantly infected by BCoV and provide additional confirmation that cattle can be subclinically infected with OvHV-2. Consequently, the real occurrence of OvHV-2-related disease may be more elevated than reported, since asymptomatic or subclinically infected animals are not likely to be investigated for OvHV-2. Furthermore, PVLs should be included as possible histologic indicators of OvHV-2-related diseases in ruminants. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42770-021-00653-6.
| S-EPMC8590972 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Protection of cattle from alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 (AlHV-1)-induced malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) has been described previously, using an attenuated virus vaccine in an unlicensed adjuvant. The vaccine was hypothesised to induce a protective barrier of virus-neutralising antibody in the oro-nasal region, supported by the observation of high titre neutralising antibodies in nasal secretions of protected animals. Here we describe further analysis of this vaccine strategy, studying the effectiveness of the vaccine formulated with a licensed adjuvant; the duration of immunity induced; and the virus-specific antibody responses in plasma and nasal secretions. The results presented here show that the attenuated AlHV-1 vaccine in a licensed adjuvant protected cattle from fatal intranasal challenge with pathogenic AlHV-1 at three or six months. In addition, animals protected from MCF had significantly higher initial anti-viral antibody titres than animals that succumbed to disease; and these antibody titres remained relatively stable after challenge, while titres in vaccinated animals with MCF increased significantly prior to the onset of clinical disease. These data support the view that a mucosal barrier of neutralising antibody blocks infection of vaccinated animals and suggests that the magnitude of the initial response may correlate with long-term protection. Interestingly, the high titre virus-neutralising antibody responses seen in animals that succumbed to MCF after vaccination were not protective.
| S-EPMC3425131 | biostudies-other
Project description:Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1), carried by wildebeest asymptomatically, causes malignant catarrhal fever (WD-MCF) when cross-species transmitted to a variety of susceptible species of the Artiodactyla order. Experimentally, WD-MCF can be induced in rabbits. The lesions observed are very similar to those described in natural host species. Here, we used the rabbit model and in vivo 5-Bromo-2'-Deoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation to study WD-MCF pathogenesis. The results obtained can be summarized as follows. (i) AlHV-1 infection induces CD8(+) T cell proliferation detectable as early as 15 days post-inoculation. (ii) While the viral load in peripheral blood mononuclear cells remains below the detection level during most of the incubation period, it increases drastically few days before death. At that time, at least 10% of CD8(+ )cells carry the viral genome; while CD11b(+), IgM(+) and CD4(+) cells do not. (iii) RT-PCR analyses of mononuclear cells isolated from the spleen and the popliteal lymph node of infected rabbits revealed no expression of ORF25 and ORF9, low or no expression of ORF50, and high or no expression of ORF73. Based on these data, we propose a new model for the pathogenesis of WD-MCF. This model relies on proliferation of infected CD8(+) cells supporting a predominantly latent infection.
| S-EPMC2229840 | biostudies-literature