Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Surface glycoprotein of Borna disease virus mediates virus spread from cell to cell. |
| Authors: |
Lennartz, Frank1,2, Bayer, Karen1, Czerwonka, Nadine3, Lu, Yinghui1, Kehr, Kristine3, Hirz, Manuela3, Steinmetzer, Torsten4, Garten, Wolfgang1, Herden, Christiane3 |
| Source: |
Cellular Microbiology. Mar2016, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p340-354. 15p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*BORNA disease virus, *MEMBRANE glycoproteins, *NEUROTROPIN, *HOSTS (Biology), *VIRAL proteins, *PEPTIDOMIMETICS |
| Abstract: |
Borna disease virus (BDV) is a non-segmented negative-stranded RNA virus that maintains a strictly neurotropic and persistent infection in affected end hosts. The primary target cells for BDV infection are brain cells, e.g. neurons and astrocytes. The exact mechanism of how infection is propagated between these cells and especially the role of the viral glycoprotein (GP) for cell-cell transmission, however, are still incompletely understood. Here, we use different cell culture systems, including rat primary astrocytes and mixed cultures of rat brain cells, to show that BDV primarily spreads through cell-cell contacts. We employ a highly stable and efficient peptidomimetic inhibitor to inhibit the furin-mediated processing of GP and demonstrate that cleaved and fusion-active GP is strictly necessary for the cell-to-cell spread of BDV. Together, our quantitative observations clarify the role of Borna disease virus-glycoprotein for viral dissemination and highlight the regulation of GP expression as a potential mechanism to limit viral spread and maintain persistence. These findings furthermore indicate that targeting host cell proteases might be a promising approach to inhibit viral GP activation and spread of infection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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