Project description:Infection of human fibroblasts with either human cytomegalovirus strain AD169 or a recombinant virus deleted for HCMV US17 Illumina HT-12 beadarrays were used to quantitate levels of host transcripts at either 12 or 96 hpi.
Project description:Infection of human fibroblasts with either human cytomegalovirus strain AD169 or a recombinant virus deleted for HCMV US17 Illumina HT-12 beadarrays were used to quantitate levels of host transcripts at either 12 or 96 hpi. Cells were infected in biological triplicates at both 12 and 96 hours post infetion
Project description:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) replication requires host metabolism. Infection alters the activity in multiple metabolic pathways, including increasing fatty acid elongation and lipid synthesis. The virus-host interactions regulating the metabolic changes associated with replication are essential to infection. While multiple host factors, including kinases and transcription factors, have been identified to be important to metabolic changes that occurr following HCMV infection, little is known about the viral factors required to alter metabolism. The HCMV UL37x1 protein (pUL37x1) localizes to the mitochondria and ER and controls Ca2+ flux from the ER to the cytosol which may influence metabolism. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that pUL37x1 is important to the metabolic remodeling that is necessary for HCMV replication by using a combination of metabolomics, lipidomics, and metabolic tracers to measure fatty acid elongation. We observed that fibroblast cells infected with wild-type (WT) HCMV had similar levels of metabolites as those infected with a mutant virus lacking the UL37x1 gene, subUL37x1. However, we found that subUL37x1-infected cells had reduced levels of two host proteins that were previously demonstrated to be important for lipid metabolism during HCMV infection—fatty acid elongase 7 (ELOVL7) and ER-stress related kinase PERK—relative to WT-infected cells. Moreover, we observed that HCMV infection results in an increase in phospholipids with very long-chain fatty acid tails (PL-VLCFAs) that contain 26 or more carbons in one of their two tails. The levels of many PL-VLCFAs were lower in subUL37x1-infected cells compared to WT-infected cells. We also show that uninfected cells expressing a high-level of pUL37x1 have a greater amount of lipids relative to control cells. Overall, we conclude that although pUL37x1 is not necessary for network-wide metabolic changes occurring during infection, it is important to the remodeling of lipid metabolic pathways during HCMV infection.
Project description:miRNA microarrays were used to investigate host miRNA expression profiles during HCMV clinical strain infection. Human foreskin fibroblasts (HFFs) were infected with the HCMV clinical strain Toledo. To mimic the attenuated strain, we used ToledoM-NM-^T15kb, which lacks the 15-kb genomic segment in the UL/bM-bM-^@M-^Y region. Changes in miRNA expression upon HCMV infection. Human foreskin fibroblasts (HFFs) were infected with Toledo-WT or ToledoM-NM-^T15kb for miRNA microarray (5 MOI). The miRNA expression levels of virus-infected HFFs at 24 or 72 hpi have been compared with those for the noninfected control.
Project description:We employed RNA-seq to map the transcriptome of human MRC5 fibroblasts during HCMV infection with AD169 and AD169-ΔUL26 strains. These data will highlight the ways in which the HCMV UL26 protein alters host gene transcripton during infection.
Project description:Our results suggest that HCMV infection disrupts the self-renewal capacity of NPCs and influences their differentiation. Whole genome expression analysis revealed many changes in cellular gene expression, including downregulation of genes pertinent to the neuronal lineage. Experiment Overall Design: For gene expression analysis, cells were either mock- or virus-infected. Mock-infected cells were harvested at 12 hpi, virus infected cells were harvested at 4, 12 and 24 hpi. Virus- and mock-infections were performed in duplicate, with each individual sample harvested separately, thereby acting as biological replicates for analysis.
Project description:Small RNA deep sequencing analysis was conducted on primary human fibroblasts infected with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). HCMV-encoded miRNAs accumulated to ~20% of the total smRNA population at late stages of infection, and our analysis led to improvements in viral miRNA annotations and identification of novel HCMV miRNAs. Through crosslinking and immunoprecipitation of Argonaute-bound RNAs from infected cells, followed by high-throughput sequencing (Ago CLIP-seq), we obtained direct evidence for incorporation of all HCMV miRNAs into the endogenous host silencing machinery. Additionally, significant upregulation was observed during infection for a host miRNA cluster containing miR-96, miR-182 and miR-183. We also identified novel non-miRNA forms of virus-derived smRNAs, revealing greater complexity within the smRNA population during HCMV infection. High-throughput profiling of smRNAs, Ago1-, and Ago2-associated miRNAs from HCMV-infected fibroblast cells. Wild-type HCMV Towne (Genbank FJ616285.1) was used for these studies.
Project description:We report the differences in innate immune activation in the comparison of wild type and mutant Mouse Hepatitis Virus Strain A59 infection of bone marrow derived macrophages. We infected BMDMs and harvested RNA at 3, 6, 9, and 12 hpi while comparing changes in host gene expression compared to mock infected cells. Here, using a transcriptomics approach, we compared the scope and kinetics of the host response to the wild type, DUBmut, and EndoUmut viruses in infected macrophages. We found that the EndoUmut virus activates a focused response, predominantly involving type I interferons and a subset of interferon-responsive genes, within 12 hours after infection. In contrast, the wild type and DUBmut viruses stimulate the upregulation of over 2,800 genes, including the activation of unfolded protein response (UPR) pathways and a proinflammatory response associated with viral pathogenesis. This study highlights the role of viral interferon antagonists in modulating the kinetics and magnitude of the host response during virus infection and demonstrates that inactivation of a dominant viral antagonist, the coronavirus endoribonuclease, dramatically alters the host response in macrophages and the disease process.
Project description:We sequenced the total mRNA from infected cells and detected differences in the expression of both host mRNA. We detected a small but significant suppression of T cell activation-related genes at 12 hpi. This suppression persisted and expanded by 24 hpi providing new possible markers of virus-induced T cell cytopathology. By 24 hpi the expression of over 50% of detectable host loci was also altered indicating widespread alteration of host processes including RNA processing, splicing, and transport to an extent not previously reported. In addition next-generation sequencing provided insights into the expression of non-coding RNAs including microRNA host genes.
Project description:RNA2.7 is a long non-coding RNA encoded by HCMV, which has be reported related with apoptosis. We have found RNA2.7 can also affect virus replication. We used the microarrays to look for HCMV RNA2.7 related host transcripts. We infected HELF cells by HCMV BAC HAN which was contructed from a HCMV clinical isolate, and BAC HAN^RNA2.7 which was a mutant of BAC HAN by deletion of RNA2.7. By running microarray and bioanalysis, we aimed to find RNA2.7 involvement in host and virus replication and transcription.