Identification of proteins in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) particles: the HCMV proteome

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a member of the herpesvirus family, is a large complex enveloped virus composed of both viral and cellular gene products. While the sequence of the HCMV genome has been known for over a decade, the full set of viral and cellular proteins that compose the HCMV virion are unknown. To approach this problem we have utilized gel-free two-dimensional capillary liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance MS to identify and determine the relative abundances of viral and cellular proteins in purified HCMV AD169 virions and dense bodies. Analysis of the proteins from purified HCMV virion preparations has indicated that the particle contains significantly more viral proteins than previously known. In this study, we identified 71 HCMV-encoded proteins that included 12 proteins encoded by known viral open reading frames (ORFs) previously not associated with virions and 12 proteins from novel viral ORFs. Analysis of the relative abundance of HCMV proteins indicated that the predominant virion protein was the pp65 tegument protein and that gM rather than gB was the most abundant glycoprotein. We have also identified over 70 host cellular proteins in HCMV virions, which include cellular structural proteins, enzymes, and chaperones. In addition, analysis of HCMV dense bodies indicated that these viral particles are composed of 29 viral proteins with a reduced quantity of cellular proteins in comparison to HCMV virions. This study provides the first comprehensive quantitative analysis of the viral and cellular proteins that compose infectious particles of a large complex virus.     

HCMV增殖机制研究进展

人类巨细胞病毒(human cytomegalovirus,HCMV)感染在人群中广泛存在,病毒在感染细胞内增殖会对宿主细胞进行多水平调节和干扰,从而导致各种宏观疾病。本文对HCMV复制周期的基因表达时序、HCMV-DNA复制相关蛋白质及其编码基因、HCMV-DNA复制特点和HCMV必需基因、非必需基因及抑制基因等进行综述。     

Adoptive immunotherapy of HCMV infection

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection or reactivation is a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised individuals such as transplant recipients. Primary HCMV infection or reactivation of HCMV from latency is mostly asymptomatic in immunocompetent individuals and is controlled by the host's cell-mediated immune response. Healthy HCMV seropositive individuals develop high frequencies of HCMV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in the peripheral blood. Furthermore, a direct correlation between the recovery of HCMV-specific CTL responses and an improved outcome of HCMV disease could be demonstrated in immunocompromised patients. Deriving from these observations, the strategy of an adoptive transfer of HCMV-specific T cells has been developed. Protective immunity can be transferred successfully by the infusion of donor-derived HCMV-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T-cell clones or cell lines. In addition, several studies have supported the importance of antiviral effector functions of Th cells in maintaining CTL responses after adoptive transfer and their capacity to produce antiviral cytokines. Until today, a broad variety of clinical protocols for HCMV-specific immunotherapy has been published. These protocols vary regarding the isolation procedure, composition of cellular product, number of transferred cells and thus treatment efficacy. In this review, we aim to provide a comprehensive synopsis of the current standard of knowledge concerning cellular HCMV-specific immunotherapeutic approaches.     

Insight for Immunotherapy of HCMV Infection

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a ubiquitous in humans, has a high prevalence rate. Young people are susceptible to HCMV infection in developing countries, while older individuals are more susceptible in developed countries. Most patients have no obvious symptoms from the primary infection. Studies have indicated that the virus has gradually adapted to the host immune system. Therefore, the control of HCMV infection requires strong immune modulation. With the recent advances in immunotherapy, its application to HCMV infections is receiving increasing attention. Here, we discuss the immune response to HCMV infection, the immune escape mechanism, and the different roles that HCMV plays in various types of immunotherapy, including vaccines, adoptive cell therapy, checkpoint blockade therapy, and targeted antibodies.     

以重组人巨细胞病毒pp65制备的多克隆抗体建立检测感染性病毒颗粒方法

人巨细胞病毒(HCMV)活动性感染是造成器官移植失败的重要原因。建立灵敏、特异的检测方法可为及早发现感染、及时给予抗病毒治疗提供依据。以离子交换和分子筛方法纯化重组表达的HCMVpp65(rp65hp)抗原,经两步纯化后,rp65hp纯度达到95%。免疫家兔制备的抗血清,ELISA抗体滴度高达1∶2560000;免疫印迹证明能与HCMVpp65抗原特异反应。将HCMV病毒感染细胞,以纯化的多克隆抗体建立了间接免疫荧光法,成功地检测到细胞中的病毒。因此,该方法为临床检测HCMV病毒活动性感染奠定了良好的基础。     

人巨细胞病毒pp65特异性抗体测定在原发感染诊断中的应用

目的 通过测定患者单份血清人巨细胞病毒(HCMV)pp65特异性IgM抗体和IgG亲和指数(AI),建立HCMV原发感染的临床判断标准.方法 从临床收集40份患儿血清和尿标本,以本室自制的pp65为抗原,运用间接酶联免疫吸附试验(ELISA)检测血清标本中HCMV pp65特异性IgM抗体;同时通过尿素变性实验,以6M尿素作为温和蛋白变性剂,测定HCMVpp65 IgG AI.尿标本常规处理后接种人胚成纤维(HF)细胞进行病毒分离,观察HCMV特异性细胞病变效应(CPE),聚合酶链反应(PCR)试验检测细胞培养物UL83基因,间接免疫荧光试验检测细胞玻片HCMV抗原.并将病毒分离结果 同血清学方法 进行比较.结果 40例标本中,IgM阳性13例,IgG阳性30例,其中,仅IgM阳性4例,病毒分离结果 亦为阳性,可诊断为原发感染;30例IgG阳性标本中,2种抗体均为阳性9例(A组),其中,5例AI＜50﹪,病毒分离结果 均为阳性,判断为原发感染;1例AI在50﹪与60﹪之间,为可疑原发感染,需要进一步鉴定;3例AI＞60﹪,判断为继发感染.IgG阳性21例(B组),其中仅3例(14.29﹪)AI＜50﹪,但病毒分离结果 为阴性,提示患者不久前曾发生HCMV原发感染,特异性IgM抗体已经转阴,病毒进入潜伏状态;余18例患者AI均＞60﹪,判断为继发感染;2种抗体均为阴性的标本有6例,病毒分离结果 亦为阴性,说明患者未被感染.统计学分析,A组与B组之间差异有统计学意义(P＜0.05).血清学方法 与病毒分离比较,一致率为75.49﹪,该方法 灵敏度为100﹪,特异度为87.10﹪,准确度为90.00﹪.结论 以HCMV pp65重组蛋白为抗原检测特异性抗体以及相应IgG AI的ELISA,可快速诊断HCMV原发感染和继发感染;该方法 具有高度特异性与敏感性,操作简便,重复性好,具有良好的临床应用前景.     

HCMV grabs a mechanism to escape neutralization

The HCMV-neutralizing monoclonal antibody MSL-109 failed to prevent HCMV-induced disease in the clinic. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Manley et?al. (2011) found that MSL-109 rapidly induces antibody resistance by a nongenetic mechanism. Their results shed light on how antibodies can interact with their targets both outside and inside infected cells and virions.     

The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) tegument protein UL94 is essential for secondary envelopment of HCMV virions

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) virions are structurally complex, and the mechanisms by which they are assembled are poorly understood. However, several tegument proteins are known to be essential for proper particle assembly and maturation. Despite intense investigation, the function of many tegument proteins remains unknown. The HCMV UL94 gene is conserved among all herpesviruses and encodes a virion protein of unknown function. We demonstrate here that UL94 is a tegument protein that is expressed with true-late kinetics and localizes to the viral assembly complex during infection. To elucidate the function of UL94, we constructed a UL94-null mutant, designated UL94stop. This mutant is completely defective for replication, demonstrating that UL94 is essential. Phenotypic analysis of the UL94stop mutant shows that in the absence of UL94, viral gene expression and genome synthesis occur at wild-type levels. However, analysis of the localization of viral proteins to the cytoplasmic assembly complex shows that the essential tegument protein UL99 (pp28) exhibits aberrant localization in cells infected with the UL94stop mutant. Finally, we show that there is a complete block in secondary envelopment in the absence of UL94. Taken together, our data suggest that UL94 functions late in infection to direct UL99 to the assembly complex, thereby facilitating secondary envelopment of virions.     

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) UL82 gene product (pp71) relieves hDaxx-mediated repression of HCMV replication

This study examines the role of the cellular protein hDaxx in controlling human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) immediate-early (IE) gene expression and viral replication. Using permissive cell lines that either overexpress hDaxx or are depleted of hDaxx expression by the use of short hairpin RNA, we demonstrate that hDaxx functions as a repressor of HCMV IE gene expression and replication. In addition, we demonstrate that the impaired growth phenotype associated with the UL82 (pp71) deletion mutant is abolished when hDaxx knockdown cells are infected, suggesting that pp71 functions to relieve hDaxx-mediated repression during HCMV infection.     

人巨细胞病毒小鼠模型的建立

采用HCMV-AD_(169)株实验感染昆明系和BALB/C系小鼠,攻毒后感染急性期BALB/C系小鼠的死亡率(28.57％)高于昆明系小鼠(5.26％)。两种不同品系小鼠的临床症状和HCMV导致的病理损害脑钙化无明显差异。昆明小鼠的发病率(94.74％)高于BALB/C小鼠。     

Induction of neutralizing antibody against human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) with DNA-mediated immunization of HCMV glycoprotein B in mice.

Immunization was accomplished by inoculating pcGB containing human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) glycoprotein B (gB) gene into BALB/c mice intramuscularly. IgM antibody was detected in all the immunized group. IgG antibody was also found in all the tested mice with a mean peak antibody titer of 1:262 in three-times immunized groups. IgG antibody appeared at 2 weeks postinoculation, raised peak levels at 7 weeks postinoculation and persisted over 6 months. Neutralizing antibody was developed, and the percent reduction of input infectivity in 1:100 diluted sera was 74.5 % in three-times immunized groups. This study suggested that DNA vaccine using the gene encoding HCMV gB is a candidate method for developing immunity to HCMV.     

HCMV在基因转染细胞中复制的研究

用人喉上皮细胞癌细胞系(HEP_2)的DNA转染人胚肺细胞(HEL),得到了5株基因转染细胞(GTC),命名为A5、B3、G8、D3和H3.这些GTC的染色体数在HEL的染色体数与两个亲代细胞(HEP-2和HEL)染色体的和数之间,感染人巨细胞病毒ADI69株后4d,D3比A5、B3、G8和H3有更多的荧光阳性细胞和更高的病毒滴度.在D3中HCMV复制随感染剂量的增大而增速.不同代数的D3对HCMV具有相似的敏感性,HCMV感染传至100代的D3,电镜证实仍可象原代D3复制大量的HCMV.永生性的D3可以用作分析调控HCMV复制的宿主细胞因子、分离培养HCMV等的工具.     

HCMV基因在人和小鼠胚胎成纤维细胞中表达的差异性研究

人巨细胞病毒（human cytomegalovirus, HCMV）种属特异性机制尚不清楚。研究通过检测HCMVADl69体外感染人胚胎成纤维细胞（Human embryo fibroblast, HEF）和小鼠胚胎成纤维细胞（mouse embryo fibroblast, MEF）后病毒基因的表达情况,探讨HCMV种属特异性的可能分子机制。首先用HCMV AD169（MOI=5）分别感染HEF和MEF,相差显微镜逐日观察细胞的形态学变化;RT—PCR检测HCMV即刻早期（IE1、IE2）、早期（uL84）和晚期基因（UL83）的表达情况;Western—blot和免疫荧光检测病毒基因编码蛋白表达的情况。形态学观察发现HEF感染HCMV后逐渐变大变圆并相互融合,第4天可见典型的HCMV特征性病变效应,而MEF则未出现上述的变化;RT-PCR和Western—blot表明HEF组表达即刻早期基因IE1和IE2、早期基因uL84和晚期基因UL83 mRNA以及各基因所编码的蛋白,且相对表达量显著高于模拟感染组（P〈0．01）;而MEF组仅IEl和IE2mRNA和蛋白相对表达量显著低于HEF组（P〈0．05）,而高于模拟感染组（P〈0．01）。免疫荧光检测发现HEF感染72h表达IE和UL83蛋白,而MEF则无明显表达。以上结果表明,HC—MV不能在MEF中复制并产生完整子代病毒颗粒,且病毒基因表达阻止在IE2基因表达之后和UL84基因表达之前,其种属特异性可能与即刻早期蛋白低水平的表达量有关。     

MicroRNA Editing Facilitates Immune Elimination of HCMV Infected Cells

The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is extremely prevalent in the human population. Infection by HCMV is life threatening in immune compromised individuals and in immune competent individuals it can cause severe birth defects, developmental retardation and is even associated with tumor development. While numerous mechanisms were developed by HCMV to interfere with immune cell activity, much less is known about cellular mechanisms that operate in response to HCMV infection. Here we demonstrate that in response to HCMV infection, the expression of the short form of the RNA editing enzyme ADAR1 (ADAR1-p110) is induced. We identified the specific promoter region responsible for this induction and we show that ADAR1-p110 can edit miR-376a. Accordingly, we demonstrate that the levels of the edited-miR-376a (miR-376a(e)) increase during HCMV infection. Importantly, we show that miR-376a(e) downregulates the immune modulating molecule HLA-E and that this consequently renders HCMV infected cells susceptible to elimination by NK cells.     

人巨细胞病毒IgM抗体国家参考品的研制

目的为了对人巨细胞病毒(Human cytomegalovirus,HCMV)IgM抗体检测试剂进行统一评价,研制HCMVIgM抗体国家参考品,用于控制试剂盒的质量。方法收集正常人与感染者的标本,采用多实验室联合标定的方法确认参考品的试验结果,并经一系列的破坏条件进行稳定性和均匀性考核。结果考核的敏感性和准确性符合国家参考品的要求。结论该参考品能用于临床检测试剂的质量控制。     

HCMV infection depress NGF expression in human glioma cells

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common cause of congenital infection, resulting in birth defects such as microcephaly. In this study, RT-PCR and Western Blotting were performed to quantify the regulation of endogenic nerve growth factor expression in neuroglia cells by HCMV infection. The results showed that basal, endogenous NGF expression in U251 was unchanged during early HCMV infection. NGF expression is strongly down-regulated during the latent phase of infection. These results suggest that HCMV can depress the NGF expression in U251 cells.