Project description:Impaired type I interferon (IFN) responses are predictive of severe disease during pulmonary coronavirus infection. Insufficient IFN-responsiveness is associated with viremia and hypercytokinemia, however the resolution of IFN-dependent innate immune responses in the lungs remains limited. Here, we aimed to elucidate the early dynamics of antiviral immunity and define the IFN-dependent mechanisms limiting viral spread during pulmonary infection with the murine coronavirus A59 (M-CoV-A59), a beta-coronavirus. Combining high-resolution transcriptomic analysis and genetic attenuation of interferon signaling, we delineated IFN-dependent cell-intrinsic and population-based transcriptional changes that determined viral replication and inflammatory maturation, respectively.
Project description:Set of microarray experiments used to identify an unknown coronavirus in a viral culture derived from a patient with SARS. March 2003. Keywords = SARS Keywords = coronavirus Keywords = viral discovery Keywords = viruses Keywords = respiratory infection
Project description:LY6E is an antiviral restriction factor that inhibits coronavirus spike-mediated fusion, but the cell types in vivo that require LY6E for protection from respiratory coronavirus infection are unknown. Here, we used a panel of seven conditional Ly6e knockout mice to define which Ly6e-expressing cells confer control of airway infection by murine coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2. Loss of Ly6e in Lyz2-expressing cells, radioresistant Vav1-expressing cells, and non-hematopoietic cells increased susceptibility to murine coronavirus. Global conditional loss of Ly6e expression resulted in clinical disease and higher viral burden after SARS-CoV-2 infection, but little evidence of immunopathology. We show that Ly6e expression protected secretory club and ciliated cells from SARS-CoV-2 infection and prevented virus-induced loss of an epithelial cell transcriptomic signature in the lung. Our study demonstrates that lineage confined rather than broad expression of Ly6e sufficiently confers resistance to disease caused by murine and human coronaviruses.
Project description:Differential expression was determined in Calu-3 cells between mock infected and infection with either Human coronavirus EMC and SARS coronavirus at different times post infection. Calu-3 2B4 cells were infected with Human Coronavirus EMC 2012 (HCoV-EMC) or mock infected. Samples were collected 0, 3, 7, 12, 18 and 24 hpi. There are 3 mock and 3 infected replicates for each time point, except for 12 hpi for which there are only 2 infected replicates (one replicate did not pass RNA quality check). There were no mock sampes at 18 hpi, and therefore infected samples at 18 hpi were compared with mocks at 24 hpi. For direct comparison with SARS-CoV infected cells, raw data from HCoV-EMC experiments were quantile normalized together with the SARS-CoV dataset (GEO Series accession number GSE33267).
Project description:Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a beta coronavirus that emerged in 2012, causing severe pneumonia and renal failure. MERS-CoV encodes five accessory proteins. Some of them have been shown to interfere with host antiviral immune response. However, the roles of protein 8b in innate immunity and viral virulence was rarely studied. Here, we introduced individual MERS-CoV accessory protein genes into the genome of an attenuated murine coronavirus (Mouse hepatitis virus, MHV), respectively and found accessory protein 8b could enhance viral replication in vivo and in vitro, and increase the lethality of infected mice. RNA-seq analysis revealed that protein 8b could significantly inhibit type I interferon production (IFN-I) and innate immune response in mice infected with MHV expressing protein 8b. We also found that MERS-CoV protein 8b could initiate from multiple internal methionine sites and at least three protein variants were identified. Residues 1-23 of protein 8b was demonstrated to be responsible for increased virulence in vivo. In addition, the inhibitory effect on IFN-I of protein 8b might not contribute to its virulence enhancement as aa1-23 deletion did not affect IFN-I production in vitro and in vivo. Next, we also found that protein 8b was localized to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)/Golgi membrane in infected cells, which was disrupted by C-terminal region aa 88-112 deletion. This study will provide new insight into the pathogenesis of MERS-CoV infection.
Project description:Set of microarray experiments used to identify an unknown coronavirus in a viral culture derived from a patient with SARS. March 2003. Keywords = SARS Keywords = coronavirus Keywords = viral discovery Keywords = viruses Keywords = respiratory infection Keywords: repeat sample
Project description:Gene expression of 770 genes from the Nanostring Neuroinflammation panel in the coronavirus-induced encephalomyelitus (CIE) murine model of multiple sclerosis.
Project description:Ribosome profiling (RiboSeq) (maps positions of translating ribosomes on the transcriptome) and RNASeq (quantifies the transcriptome) analysis of murine 17 clone 1 (17Cl-1) cells infected with Murine coronavirus strain A59 (MHV-A59). Samples comprise 1 and 8 h mocks, 1, 2.5, 5 and 8 h post infection timecourse, for each of RiboSeq with cycloheximide (CHX), RiboSeq with harringtonine (HAR), and RNASeq, performed in duplicate (6 x 3 x 2 libraries); RiboSeq CHX, RiboSeq HAR and RNASeq at 1 h post infection for high multiplicity of infection (3 libraries); and 1 \long-read\ library for 5 h post infection RiboSeq CHX to test for larger-than-normal ribosome footprints.
Project description:An infection with SARS-CoV-2 can be symptomatic or asymptomatic depending on the respective activation of the immune system. We used the bacterial extract Broncho Vaxom (BV) to preactivate the immune system before a coronavirus infection using the murine coronavirus MHV A59 in a mouse model. The activation of the immune system led to a reduction in viral load and protected lung tissue from enhanced cell apoptosis. Using RNA sequencing we were able to demonstrate that lung tissue from mice receiving BV resembled an intermediate state between infected and healthy tissue. On a cellular level, treatment with BV enhanced alveolar and interstitial macrophages in the lung. We were able to phenocopy the effect of BV by transplanting naïve lung macrophages into recipient mice thereby enhancing the local cellular amount before infection. We conclude that recruitment and preactivation of the innate immune system by the bacterial extract BV is beneficial during a coronavirus infection.