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Adjuvant effect of CD40 on H5N1 DNA vaccine in mice.

H5N1 viruses cause severe and often fatal disease in humans. DNA vaccines have been shown to provide some protection in many animal models against H5N1 influenza virus infection, but this protection is not complete. To enhance the immunogenicity of an H5N1 DNA vaccine, we constructed the eukaryotic expression systems pcD-CD40 and pcD-HA. The expression of pcD-HA or pcD-CD40 in transfected BHK cells was confirmed by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The constructs were then used to immunize BALB/c mice intramuscularly three times at two-week intervals. The titers of seru

Detection of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis and viruses in presumably immunocompetent infants who died in the hospital or in the community.

Fresh-frozen lung and tracheal-aspirate specimens obtained from 112 infants who died in Santiago, Chile, during 1998-2000 were analyzed for the presence of Pneumocystis DNA, by use of nested DNA amplification of the large subunit mitochondrial rRNA, and for the presence of viruses, by use of culture and immunofluorescence. Pneumocystis DNA was detected in specimens from 45 (51.7%) of 87 infants who died in the community and from 5 (20%) of 25 infants who died in the hospital (P=.006). Primary infection with Pneumocystis was highly frequent among infants who die unexpectedly in the community. I

The pathogenicity factor of DNA virus interacts with Arabidopsis deubiquitinases UBP12/13 to promote viral infection.

Plant DNA viruses, such as Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) and Cabbage leaf curl virus (CaLCuV), are devastating pathogens that cause substantial yield losses in crops worldwide. These viruses assemble their genomes into minichromosomes with host histones. Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are important for viral replication and host resistance. In this study, we demonstrate that the CaMV pathogenicity factor P6 interacts with Arabidopsis deubiquitinases UBP12 and UBP13, which are typically negative regulators of plant immunity. Using affinity purification-mass spectrometry (AP-M…

Viruses in human cancers.

Viruses may contribute to the development of human tumors by different mechanisms: indirectly by inducing immunosuppression or by modifying the host cell genome without persistence of viral DNA; directly by inducing oncoproteins or by altering the expression of host cell proteins at the site of viral DNA integration. Human cancers associated with papillomavirus, hepatitis B virus, Epstein-Barr virus, and human T cell leukemia-lymphoma virus infections are responsible for approximately 15 percent of the worldwide cancer incidence. Cancer of the cervix and hepatocellular carcinoma account for ab

[Micro RNA and viral infections in mammals].

RNA silencing plays an important role in development through the action of micro (mi) RNAs that fine tune the expression of a large portion … r resembled miRNAs. This finding indicated that, rather than being targeted by RNA silencing, human DNA viruses seem to have evolved their own miRNAs to modulate the expression of host genes. This primary observation has been extended to other members of the herpesvirus family as well as other DNA viruses such as the polyomavirus SV40. Viral miRNAs have the p …

PATZ1 condensation adjacent to PML nuclear bodies suppresses HBoV transcription as an intrinsic antiviral defense.

PML nuclear bodies are cellular structures known to combat DNA viruses. In this study, how human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1), a respiratory pathogen, evades this defense was investigated. PATZ1, a host protein that constitutively regulates gene activity, is recruited by the viral NS1-70 protein to form concentrated clusters adjacent to PML bodies. These clusters bind to the viral DNA and suppress its ability to make new viral genes. To overcome this, the virus produces another protein, NS2, which disrupts the PATZ1 condensates and removes them from the viral DNA, allowing the virus to resume replicati…

High Diversity and Novel Enteric Viruses in Fecal Viromes of Healthy Wild and Captive Thai Cynomolgus Macaques (Macaca fascicularis).

Cynomolgus macaques are common across South East Asian countries including Thailand. The National Primate Research Center of Thailand, Chula … lar Rep-encoding single-strand (CRESS) DNA virus were also characterized. Higher abundance of CRESS DNA viruses of unknown tropism and invertebrate-tropic ambidensovirus were detected in wild versus captive macaques likely reflecting dietary differences. Short term rearing in captivity did not have a pronounced effect on the diversity of mammalian viruses of …

Bacteriophage SPP1 Chu is an alkaline exonuclease in the SynExo family of viral two-component recombinases.

Many DNA viruses concatemerize their genomes as a prerequisite to packaging into capsids. Concatemerization arises from either replication or homologous recombination. Replication is already the target of many antiviral drugs, and viral recombinases are an attractive target for drug design, particularly for combination therapy with replication inhibitors, due to their important supporting role in viral growth. To dissect the molecular mechanisms of viral recombination, we and others previously identified a family of viral nucleases that comprise one component of a conserved, two-component vira…

Вирусы РНК и ДНК вызывают аутоиммунные заболевания и/или деменции.

Существуют вирусные патогенные пути для возникновения аутоиммунных заболеваний, таких, как множественный склероз, прямо или косвенно, путем реактивации скрытых вирусов, включая герпесвирусы человека. После первоначальных инфекций эти вирусы ДНК могут вступать в латентность, но периодически возрождаться в активных инфекциях по следующим причинам: лечение, вызывающее иммунодепрессию; и инфекция иммунодепрессивными патогенами, включая вирусы РНК, стресс или недоедание. Непрямая причинно-следственная связь с аутоиммунными заболеваниями может использоваться для подавления иммунной системы вирусными

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There are viral pathogen pathways to initiate autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, directly or indirectly, by reactivating latent viruses including human herpesviruses. After initial infections, these DNA viruses can enter latency but periodically reactivate into active infections following triggers: medical treatments inducing immunosuppressions…

Development of a novel one-step triplex PCR assay for the simultaneous detection of porcine circovirus type 2, porcine parvovirus and classical swine fever virus in a single tube.

Co-infection of multiple pathogens complicates diagnosis, treatment and preventive measures based on clinical signs. Therefore, reliable diagnostic tool for timely reporting of suspected diseases is very much essential. A novel one-step triplex PCR assay was developed and evaluated for simultaneous detection of three important viruses namely porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), porcine parvovirus (PPV) and classical swine fever virus (CSFV) involved in reproductive problems in pigs. Each of the three pairs of oligonucleotide primers exclusively amplified the targeted fragment of the specific viru

Sp140L - это фактор ограничения герпесвируса.

UNLABELLED: Герпесвирусы, включая вирус Эпштейн-Барр (EBV) - человеческий онкогенный вирус и важнейший пусковой механизм множественного склероза, должны обходить механизмы ДНК-диагностики для установления скрытых инфекций на протяжении всей жизни. Поэтому герпесвирусы кодируют вирусные белки, чтобы разрушить ключевые факторы, связанные с зондированием ДНК и вирусным ограничением. Первый вирусный белок латентности, выраженный EBNA-LP, крайне важен для преобразования наивных клеток B и установления вирусного генного экспрессии, однако его роль в уклонении от защиты хостов остается неясной. Испол

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UNLABELLED: Herpesviruses, including Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) - a human oncogenic viruses and essential trigger of multiple sclerosis, must … et of the herpesvirus saimiri ORF3 protein, implying a role for Sp140L in immunity to other diverse DNA viruses. This study reveals Sp140L as a restriction factor that we propose links sensing and transcriptional suppression of viral DNA to an IFN-independent innate immune response, likely relevant to all nuclear DNA viruses. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Herpesvi …

Prevalence of respiratory viruses in Iranian patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

INTRODUCTION: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and ultimately fatal lung disease. One of the risk factors involved in the acquisition of IPF is viral infections, especially respiratory viruses. In the present study, we investigated the detection of respiratory viruses and the possible relationship between these viruses and IPF. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was supported by the Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran. A total of 40 respiratory samples (five nasopharyngeal and 35 bronchoalveolar lavage specimens) were obtained from IPF patients referred t

From viral epigenetic reprogramming to neuroinflammation: Mechanisms driving neurodegeneration.

Viruses exploit host genetic machinery to establish chronic infections and contribute to chronic neurodegenerative and immune disorders. By manipulating DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNA networks, viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), Herpes Simplex virus (HSV), Zika virus (ZIKV), and Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) induce epigenetic changes that silence or delay the host antiviral defenses and reprogram host gene expression. For instance, EBV recruits DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) to hypermethylate genes such as SOCS1 while ZIKV disrupts neuronal DNA methylati

HC-Pro viral suppressor from tobacco vein banding mosaic virus interferes with DNA methylation and activates the salicylic acid pathway.

Salicylic acid (SA) is an important signalling molecule that is synthesized by plants and induces the expression of resistance genes. The SA pathway is typically activated by DNA viruses as well as RNA viruses. Here, we demonstrated that heper-component protease (HC-Pro) encoded by tobacco vein banding mosaic virus (TVBMV) decreases in DNA methylation at the promoters of the regulators ACD6 and NPR1 in the SA pathway. We found that the overexpression of HC-Pro increases the expression of components in the SA pathway in plants. The results revealed that HC-Pro interferes in DNA methylation and …

Production and characterization of antibodies against vaccinia virus DNA polymerase.

Poxviruses are large DNA viruses that replicate in discrete locations in the cytoplasm of infected cells called viral factories. Because the host cell DNA replication machinery is located in the nucleus, poxviruses encode many of the proteins required for their own DNA replication, including a DNA polymerase. Although many if not all of the enzymes that are required for viral DNA replication have been identified, the actual mechanism of poxvirus DNA replication remains unclear. Two monoclonal antibodies and a polyclonal antibody against vaccinia virus DNA polymerase were produced and character…

Programmable low-cost DNA-based platform for viral RNA detection.

Detection of viruses is critical for controlling disease spread. Recent emerging viral threats, including Zika virus, Ebola virus, and SARS-CoV-2 responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) highlight the cost and difficulty in responding rapidly. To address these challenges, we develop a platform for low-cost and rapid detection of viral RNA with DNA nanoswitches that mechanically reconfigure in response to specific viruses. Using Zika virus as a model system, we show nonenzymatic detection of viral RNA with selective and multiplexed detection between related viruses and viral strains.

Acibenzolar-S-methyl inhibits accumulation of replication-associated DNA of tomato yellow leaf curl virus.

Acibenzolar-S-methyl (ASM), a functional analogue of salicylic acid, induces systemic acquired resistance and restricts infection by several RNA viruses, yet its mechanisms against DNA viruses remain unknown. By examining the accumulation of tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) DNA in inoculated leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana, we investigated whether ASM suppresses begomovirus infection. TYLCV was inoculated by agroinfiltration, and virion-sense (VS) and complementary-sense (CS) strands of TYLCV DNA were quantified separately using two-step strand-specific qPCR. ASM pretreatment significantl…

Multiplex polymerase chain reaction for human herpesvirus-6, human cytomegalovirus, and human beta-globin DNA.

Human cytomegalovirus and human herpesvirus-6 are closely related viruses which cause similar diseases, have similar cellular repositories of latent infection, and may be detected largely in the same types of clinical specimens. DNA amplification appears likely to play an increasing role in the diagnosis of recent and remote infection with these agents. A sensitive multiplex polymerase chain reaction was therefore developed for the two viruses and for human beta-globin DNA. Optimization of parameters such as the primers, primer concentrations, magnesium concentration, and buffer constituents w

Are viruses associated with disc herniation? A clinical case series.

BACKGROUND: There is some limited evidence for the presence of viruses in herniated disc material including a previous case series that claimed to provide "unequivocal evidence of the presence of herpes virus DNA in intervertebral disc specimens of patients with lumbar disc herniation suggesting the potential role of herpes viruses as a contributing factor to the pathogenesis of degenerative disc disease". This study has not been replicated. The objective of our study was to determine if viruses were present in herniated disc fragments in participants with a prior history of back pain. METHOD

Crosstalk between Hepatitis B Virus and the 3D Genome Structure.

Viruses that transcribe their DNA within the nucleus have to adapt to the existing cellular mechanisms that govern transcriptional regulation. Recent technological breakthroughs have highlighted the highly hierarchical organization of the cellular genome and its role in the regulation of gene expression. This review provides an updated overview on the current knowledge on how the hepatitis B virus interacts with the cellular 3D genome and its consequences on viral and cellular gene expression. We also briefly discuss the strategies developed by other DNA viruses to co-opt and sometimes subvert…