代谢在宿主抗病毒天然免疫的重要作用

抗病毒天然免疫是宿主抗病毒感染的第一道防线。研究证明,病毒感染时,几乎所有细胞都能诱导I型干扰素(IFN-I)及其下游的干扰素刺激基因(ISG)的表达,进而介导宿主的抗病毒天然免疫。最新研究发现,细胞组分,尤其是脂质代谢几乎可以促进病毒复制周期的所有阶段,包括病毒与宿主细胞的初始相互作用、囊膜与细胞膜融合、病毒组装和出芽等。这些阶段均是宿主抗病毒天然免疫的作用靶点,也是预防和治疗病毒感染的有效途径。因此,细胞代谢(尤其是脂代谢)在病毒感染诱导的天然免疫中必定发挥极为关键的作用。代谢在抗病毒天然免疫中作用的研究,必将为预防和治疗病毒感染新途径和新方法的开发提供新的思路。综述将重点探讨代谢在线粒体、过氧化物酶体和少数ISG参与的抗病毒天然免疫中的作用。     

核内不均一核糖核蛋白A2B1功能及其在病毒感染中的作用研究进展

核内不均一核糖核蛋白A2B1(hnRNPA2B1)是核不均一核糖核蛋白家族（hnRNPs）成员，在各种组织中广泛表达，具有识别和结合RNA和DNA模体的功能，其在细胞生命活动，如新生转录物的包装、选择性剪接和翻译调控中起重要作用。研究发现，hnRNPA2B1在病毒感染和抗病毒免疫方面扮演重要的角色，具有识别胞内病毒核酸，激发抗病毒免疫通路，调控病毒感染、复制及病毒释放等功能。本文就hnRNPA2B1的结构、功能，尤其是在DNA和RNA病毒感染中所涉及的作用机制作一综述。     

地衣芽胞杆菌活菌制剂的临床应用进展

整肠生是应用二十多年的地衣芽胞杆菌活菌制剂,已有大量的研究报道其临床有效性和安全性。地衣芽胞杆菌大量分泌种类丰富的消化酶,通过抑制肠道有害菌生长和促进有益菌增殖调节肠道菌群,并产生杆菌肽、地衣素和乙酸等生物活性物质发挥益生作用。本文总结了益生菌的益生特点,并重点分析了芽胞杆菌的益生特点,归纳了整肠生的作用机制与临床研究现状,揭示了其在肝脏疾病、溃疡性结肠炎、肠易激综合征、幽门螺旋杆菌感染以及病毒感染等疾病中的治疗作用,并对整肠生未来的临床应用方向进行了展望。     

青海可可西里嗜碱芽胞杆菌资源调查

【目的】了解可可西里嗜碱芽胞杆菌资源多样性及产酶多样性,为芽胞杆菌功能资源挖掘和菌剂开发提供基础。【方法】采用Horikoshi I培养基,通过可培养法分离青海可可西里土壤中的嗜碱芽胞杆菌,利用16S r RNA基因序列初步鉴定分离获得的芽胞杆菌。采用透明圈法分析分离菌株的产蛋白酶、纤维素酶及木聚糖酶活性。【结果】从青海可可西里土壤中共分离获得66株嗜碱芽胞杆菌,根据16S r RNA基因序列相似性分析,发现它们隶属于6个属22个种,分别为芽胞杆菌属(Bacillus)、纤细芽胞杆菌属(Gracilibacillus)、喜盐芽胞杆菌属(Halobacillus)、咸海鲜芽胞杆菌属(Jeotgalibacillus)、类芽胞杆菌属(Paenibacillus)和嗜冷芽胞杆菌属(Psychrobacillus),其中以芽胞杆菌属(Bacillus)为优势属。2株嗜碱芽胞杆菌与它们最近匹配模式菌株的16S r RNA基因序列相似性为97.00%和98.65%,为潜在新种。三种酶活检测结果表明产酶菌株约占总分离菌株的95.00%,其中55株具有产蛋白酶活性,27株具有产纤维素酶活性,8株能够产木聚糖酶。【结论】青海可可西里蕴藏着较丰富的嗜碱芽胞杆菌资源及丰富的产酶资源,为后续嗜碱芽胞杆菌的挖掘提供理论基础。     

短小芽胞杆菌的益生作用及其生物降解功能

短小芽胞杆菌(Bacillus pumilus)是一种重要的微生物资源,能够分泌活性较强的代谢产物,在农业、工业、医药等领域具有良好的应用前景。就目前短小芽胞杆菌对动植物的抗菌、抗病毒、改善农作物品质等益生作用及其生物降解功能进行综述,总结并分析降解过程中可能存在的问题,为进一步研究短小芽胞杆菌的生物学功能及其在多个领域的应用提供参考。     

自噬在小RNA病毒感染中的作用

自噬是真核细胞所特有的一种高度保守的经溶酶体途径降解细胞内错误折叠或多余蛋白质、受损细胞器、胞内病原体的细胞代谢过程。小RNA病毒脱壳感染细胞时,快速激活自噬途径,诱导形成大量双层膜结构的自噬体。自噬能激活细胞表面的模式识别受体以及干扰素途径,增强组织相容性复合物对病毒抗原的提呈作用,发挥抑制小RNA病毒感染的天然免疫功能;此外,自噬体为小RNA病毒提供复制相关蛋白质和非细胞裂解性释放途径,促进感染细胞的胞内、胞外出现更多成熟的小RNA病毒粒子。该文对细胞自噬与小RNA病毒感染的研究概况与进展作一综述,为进一步开展解析不同小RNA病毒感染与自噬发生的时间、空间等的关系及阐明自噬作用于小RNA病毒感染的分子机制等研究提供参考。     

RNA干扰抗病毒感染

RNA干扰是由双链RNA诱导的、关闭同源序列基因表达的机制。它是一种自然存在于植物、线虫、果蝇等真核细胞生物中的抵抗病毒感染方式。随着在哺乳动物细胞培养中成功地诱导RNA干扰,利用RNA干扰预防、治疗病毒感染已成为新的研究热点,并取得了有希望的成果。在未来,有望成为抗病毒感染的有效方法。     

小RNA病毒受体的研究进展

病毒与宿主间的相互作用位点为病毒感染细胞提供可能性,位于宿主细胞上的结合位点称作受体。目前在宿主细胞的免疫球蛋白超家族、低密度脂蛋白受体家族、补体家族和整联蛋白细胞粘附分子家族等中陆续发现了小RNA病毒的受体。了解各个受体的利用情况,对理解病毒感染机制、宿主嗜性和抗病毒机理有重要意义。本文主要就已证实的小RNA病毒受体进行分类概述,以期为深入研究小RNA病毒的致病机理及其防控提供参考。     

四川海螺沟冰川土样芽胞杆菌资源分析

【背景】芽胞杆菌(Bacillus-like)是一类能形成具有强抗性芽胞且可在多种极端环境下存活的细菌,其产生的多种功能代谢产物在多种领域具有重要研究价值。由于冰川低温、寡营养的独特生态环境,其存在的芽胞杆菌可能具有特殊性,因此研究冰川芽胞杆菌有利于发掘新基因、丰富芽胞杆菌多样性。【目的】了解四川海螺沟冰川土壤芽胞杆菌资源,为挖掘芽胞杆菌新资源提供基础。【方法】采用纯培养法分离获得冰川土壤芽胞杆菌资源,利用16S r RNA基因进行系统发育分析,测定代表性菌株的生理生化特性并采用类平均法和欧氏距离模型进行聚类分析。【结果】共筛选到可培养细菌44株,经16S r RNA基因鉴定确定其中36株为芽胞杆菌,隶属于4个属的19个种,分别为芽胞杆菌属(Bacillus)11个种24株、类芽胞杆菌属(Paenibacillus)2个种3株、短芽胞杆菌属(Brevibacillus)4个种5株和赖氨酸芽胞杆菌属(Lysinibacillus)2个种4株,其中以芽胞杆菌属(Bacillus)为优势属。分离菌中仅3株芽胞杆菌可在4°C生存,7株能在50°C生长,大部分菌株在30°C下生长良好;有74%菌株能耐碱,有37%菌株能在无盐条件下生长。根据生理生化结果,采用类平均法和欧氏距离模型进行聚类分析,可分为3组,分别包含7种、4种和6种芽胞杆菌。第1组均可以水解七叶灵和利用葡萄糖,第2组均不能水解七叶灵和利用葡萄糖,第3组仅能共同利用葡萄糖。【结论】四川海螺沟冰川土壤蕴藏着较为丰富的芽胞杆菌资源,为芽胞杆菌新资源挖掘提供了资源保障。     

PlcR在炭疽芽胞杆菌A16R中的功能研究

炭疽芽胞杆菌(Bacillus anthracis)、蜡样芽胞杆菌(B. cereus)和苏云金芽胞杆菌(B. thuringiensis)均属于蜡样芽胞杆菌群,在遗传学上有很高的相似性。PlcR (Phospholipase C regulator)在蜡样芽胞杆菌中是十分重要的调控因子,但plcR基因在炭疽芽胞杆菌中发生一个无义突变导致在炭疽芽胞杆菌中产生一个截短PlcR蛋白。为了研究plcR基因对炭疽芽胞杆菌功能的影响,文章以蜡样芽胞杆菌CMCC6330基因组为模板,构建重组表达质粒pBE2A-plcR后导入炭疽芽胞杆菌疫苗株A16R中获得重组菌株,对其进行表型分析。结果显示,炭疽芽胞杆菌重组菌株的溶血活性基本没有恢复,但恢复了部分神经鞘磷脂酶活性,表明将蜡样芽胞杆菌的plcR基因导入炭疽芽胞杆菌后,可以直接激活神经鞘磷脂酶活性。     

Inhibition of enveloped virus infection of cultured cells by valproic acid

Valproic acid (VPA) is a short-chain fatty acid commonly used for treatment of neurological disorders. As VPA can interfere with cellular lipid metabolism, its effect on the infection of cultured cells by viruses of seven viral families relevant to human and animal health, including eight enveloped and four nonenveloped viruses, was analyzed. VPA drastically inhibited multiplication of all the enveloped viruses tested, including the zoonotic lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and West Nile virus (WNV), while it did not affect infection by the nonenveloped viruses assayed. VPA reduced vesicular stomatitis virus infection yield without causing a major blockage of either viral RNA or protein synthesis. In contrast, VPA drastically abolished WNV RNA and protein synthesis, indicating that this drug can interfere the viral cycle at different steps of enveloped virus infection. Thus, VPA can contribute to an understanding of the crucial steps of viral maturation and to the development of future strategies against infections associated with enveloped viruses.     

Establishing RNA virus resistance in plants by harnessing CRISPR immune system

Recently, CRISPR‐Cas (clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–CRISPR‐associated proteins) system has been used to produce plants resistant to DNA virus infections. However, there is no RNA virus control method in plants that uses CRISPR‐Cas system to target the viral genome directly. Here, we reprogrammed the CRISPR‐Cas9 system from Francisella novicida to confer molecular immunity against RNA viruses in Nicotiana benthamiana and Arabidopsis plants. Plants expressing FnCas9 and sgRNA specific for the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) or tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) exhibited significantly attenuated virus infection symptoms and reduced viral RNA accumulation. Furthermore, in the transgenic virus‐targeting plants, the resistance was inheritable and the progenies showed significantly less virus accumulation. These data reveal that the CRISPR/Cas9 system can be used to produce plant that stable resistant to RNA viruses, thereby broadening the use of such technology for virus control in agricultural field.     

Mechanisms of enveloped RNA virus budding

To spread infection, enveloped viruses must bud from infected host cells. Recent research indicates that HIV and other enveloped RNA viruses bud by appropriating the cellular machinery that is normally used to create vesicles that bud into late endosomal compartments called multivesicular bodies. This new model of virus budding has many potential implications for cell biology and viral pathogenesis.     

Limiting Respiratory Viral Infection by Targeting Antiviral and Immunological Functions of BST‐2/Tetherin: Knowledge and Gaps

Recent findings regarding the cellular biology and immunology of BST‐2 (also known as tetherin) indicate that its function could be exploited as a universal replication inhibitor of enveloped respiratory viruses (e.g., influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, etc.). BST‐2 inhibits viral replication by preventing virus budding from the plasma membrane and by inducing an antiviral state in cells adjacent to infection via unique inflammatory signaling mechanisms. This review presents the first comprehensive summary of what is currently known about BST‐2 anti‐viral function against respiratory viruses, how these viruses construct countermeasures to antagonize BST‐2, and how BST‐2 function might be targeted to develop therapies to treat respiratory virus infections. The authors address the current gaps in knowledge, including the need for mechanistic understanding of BST‐2 antagonism by respiratory viruses, that should be bridged to achieve that goal.

     

Isolation of 3-(4,8,12-Trimethyltridecyl)-furan (“Phytofuran”) from Burley Tobacco

Sendai virus (SeV) is an enveloped virus with a non-segmented negative-strand RNA genome. SeV envelope fusion (F) glycoproteins play crucial roles in the viral life cycle in processes such as viral binding, assembly, and budding. In this study, we developed a viable recombinant SeV designated F-EGFP SeV/ΔF, in which the F protein was replaced by an F protein fused to EGFP at the carboxyl terminus. Living infected cells of the recombinant virus were directly visualized by green fluorescence. The addition of EGFP to the F protein maintained the activities of the F protein in terms of intracellular transport to the plasma membrane via the ER and the Golgi apparatus and fusion activity in the infected cells. These results suggest that this fluorescent SeV is a useful tool for studying the viral binding, assembly, and budding mechanisms of F proteins and the SeV life cycle in living infected cells.     

Double-stranded RNA viral infection of Trichomonas vaginalis and correlation with genetic polymorphism of isolates

Trichomonas vaginalis can be infected with double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses known as T. vaginalis virus (TVV). This viral infection may have important implications for trichomonal virulence and disease pathogenesis. The objective of this study was to determine the possible correlation between the T. vaginalis genetic polymorphism and the isolate infection with TVV. The Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique was used to determine genetic differences among 37 isolates of T. vaginalis using a panel of 30 random primers and these genetic data were correlated with the infection of isolates with TVV. The trees drawn based on RAPD data showed significantly association with the presence of TVV (P = 0.028) demonstrating the existence of concordance between the genetic relatedness and the presence of TVV in T. vaginalis isolates. This result could point to a predisposition of T. vaginalis for the viral enters and/or survival.     

Matrix proteins of enveloped viruses: a case study of Influenza A virus M1 protein

Influenza A virus, a member of the Orthomyxoviridae family of enveloped viruses, is one of the human and animal top killers, and its structure and components are therefore extensively studied during the last decades. The most abundant component, M1 matrix protein, forms a matrix layer (scaffold) under the viral lipid envelope, and the functional roles as well as structural peculiarities of the M1 protein are still under heavy debate. Despite multiple attempts of crystallization, no high resolution structure is available for the full length M1 of Influenza A virus. The likely reason for the difficulties lies in the intrinsic disorder of the M1 C-terminal part preventing diffraction quality crystals to be grown. Alternative structural methods including synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), atomic force microscopy, cryo-electron microscopy/tomography are therefore widely applied to understand the structure of M1, its self-association and interactions with the lipid membrane and the viral nucleocapsid. These methods reveal striking similarities in the behavior of M1 and matrix proteins of other enveloped RNA viruses, with the differences accompanied by the specific features of the viral lifecycles, thus suggesting common interaction principles and, possibly, common evolutional ancestors. The structural information on the Influenza A virus M1 protein obtained to the date strongly suggests that the intrinsic disorder in the C-terminal domain has important functional implications.     

The first phlebo‐like virus infecting plants: a case study on the adaptation of negative‐stranded RNA viruses to new hosts

A novel negative‐stranded (ns) RNA virus associated with a severe citrus disease reported more than 80 years ago has been identified. Transmission electron microscopy showed that this novel virus, tentatively named citrus concave gum‐associated virus, is flexuous and non‐enveloped. Notwithstanding, its two genomic RNAs share structural features with members of the genus Phlebovirus, which are enveloped arthropod‐transmitted viruses infecting mammals, and with a group of still unclassified phlebo‐like viruses mainly infecting arthropods. CCGaV genomic RNAs code for an RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase, a nucleocapsid protein and a putative movement protein showing structural and phylogenetic relationships with phlebo‐like viruses, phleboviruses and the unrelated ophioviruses, respectively, thus providing intriguing evidence of a modular genome evolution. Phylogenetic reconstructions identified an invertebrate‐restricted virus as the most likely ancestor of this virus, revealing that its adaptation to plants was independent from and possibly predated that of the other nsRNA plant viruses. These data are consistent with an evolutionary scenario in which trans‐kingdom adaptation occurred several times during the history of nsRNA viruses and followed different evolutionary pathways, in which genomic RNA segments were gained or lost. The need to create a new genus for this bipartite nsRNA virus and the impact of the rapid and specific detection methods developed here on citrus sanitation and certification are also discussed.     

Association of a cellular 21-kDa transmembrane protein (VAP21) with enveloped viruses.

We reported previously that the rabies virions contained a 21-kDa cellular transmembrane protein (referred to as VAP21) as a minor component (Sagara, J. et al, Microbiol. Immunol. 41(12): 947-955, 1997). In this study, we further examined the possible interactions of VAP21 with other enveloped viruses, including the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV; negative-stranded RNA virus), Sindbis virus (positive-stranded RNA virus) and herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1; double-stranded DNA virus). An immunoblot analysis demonstrated that all of these enveloped viruses contained VAP21 in the virion as a minor component. Immunoprecipitation studies suggested that VAP21 was associated with certain viral proteins in the cell, such as the matrix (M) protein of VSV, a capsid protein of Sindbis virus, and at least a capsid protein (VP5) of HSV-1. The association was disrupted by treatment with 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate, but resistant to the treatment with 1% NP-40 plus 1% deoxycholate. These results suggest that: 1) VAP21 is not primarily associated with the viral transmembrane glycoprotein but rather with the internal viral protein, and, 2) this association would cause the efficient incorporation of VAP21 into the virion.