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1. Data publication with the structural biology data grid supports live analysis

Author: Pa, Meyer, Socias S, Key J, Ransey E, Ec, Tjon, Alejandro Buschiazzo, Lei M, Botka C, Withrow J, Neau D, Rajashankar K, Ks, Anderson, Rh, Baxter, Sc, Blacklow, Tj, Boggon, Am, Bonvin, Borek D, Tj, Brett, Caflisch A, Ci, Chang, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology [Boston] (DBCMP), Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS), Molecular and structural microbiology = Microbiología Molecular y Estructural [Montevideo], Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), NE-CAT and department of chemistry and chemical biology [Argonne], Cornell University, Departments of pharmacology and molecular biophysics and biochemistry [New Haven], Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry [New Haven], Yale University [New Haven], Bijovet center [Utrecht], Utrecht University [Utrecht], Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry [Dallas], University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center [Dallas], Department of Internal Medicine [St Louis], Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry [Zurich], University of Zürich [Zürich] (UZH), Institute of Biological Chemistry (IBC Sinica), Academia Sinica, Departments of biochemistry and chemistry [Nashville], Vanderbilt University [Nashville], Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California, SUNY Upstate Medical University, State University of New York (SUNY), University of Chicago, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute [Boston], Saint Louis University School of Medicine [St Louis], Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (DBCMP), Columbia University [New York], National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [Bethesda] (NHLBI), Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute [Stanford], Stanford University School of Medicine [CA, USA], Harvard University [Cambridge], Wuhan Institute of Virology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute [Boston], Tufts University School of Medicine [Boston], Queen's University [Kingston], La Trobe University [Melbourne], Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), University of Texas at Dallas [Richardson] (UT Dallas), Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Institut de biologie structurale (IBS - UMR 5075), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), University of Maryland [Baltimore County] (UMBC), University of Maryland System, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [Bethesda] (NINDS), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Rice University [Houston], University of Washington School of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, University of California [San Francisco] (UCSF), Uppsala University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Howard Hughes Medical Institute [Ashburn], Fachbereich Biologie, University of Konstanz, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Development of the Structural Biology Data Grid is funded by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust 2016PG-BRI002 to PS and MC. Development of citation workflows is supported NSF 1448069 (to PS). DAA is being developed as a pilot project of the National Data Service, with additional funds to support storage and technology development, including NIH P41 GM103403 (NE-CAT) and 1S10RR028832 (HMS) and DOE DE-AC02-06CH11357, NIH 1U54EB020406-01, Big Data for Discovery Science Center, and NIST 60NANB15D077 (Globus Project), Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology [Boston] ( DBCMP ), Harvard Medical School [Boston] ( HMS ), Laboratory of molecular and structural microbiology, Institut Pasteur Montevideo-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur ( RIIP ), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences ( Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology ), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] ( CAS ), Yale University, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, University of Zürich [Zürich] ( UZH ), Institute of Biological Chemistry ( IBC Sinica ), Vanderbilt University of Nashville, University of California [San Diego] ( UC San Diego ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology ( DBCMP ), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [Bethesda] ( NHLBI ), Stanford University School of Medicine, Havard Medical School, University of Cambridge [UK] ( CAM ), University of Texas at Dallas [Richardson] ( UT Dallas ), Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular ( IBMC ), Institut de biologie structurale ( IBS - UMR 5075 ), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 ( UJF ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université Grenoble Alpes ( UGA ), University of Maryland Baltimore County [Baltimore] ( UMBC ), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [Bethesda] ( NINDS ), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] ( NIH ), The University of Texas Medical Branch ( UTMB ), Yale School of Medicine, University of California [San Francisco] ( UCSF ), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] ( LBNL ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry, Drennan, Catherine L., Schwartz, Thomas, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde
Subjects: Data set, Data quality, General Physics and Astronomy, Experimental data, General Chemistry, Data grid, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Data science, Genetics, Paradigm shift, Data access, Data mining, Biology, The Internet
Abstract: The validation and analysis of X-ray crystallographic data is essential for reproducibility and the development of crystallographic methods. Here, the authors describe a repository for crystallographic datasets and demonstrate some of the ways it could serve the crystallographic community., Access to experimental X-ray diffraction image data is fundamental for validation and reproduction of macromolecular models and indispensable for development of structural biology processing methods. Here, we established a diffraction data publication and dissemination system, Structural Biology Data Grid (SBDG; data.sbgrid.org), to preserve primary experimental data sets that support scientific publications. Data sets are accessible to researchers through a community driven data grid, which facilitates global data access. Our analysis of a pilot collection of crystallographic data sets demonstrates that the information archived by SBDG is sufficient to reprocess data to statistics that meet or exceed the quality of the original published structures. SBDG has extended its services to the entire community and is used to develop support for other types of biomedical data sets. It is anticipated that access to the experimental data sets will enhance the paradigm shift in the community towards a much more dynamic body of continuously improving data analysis.
Published: 2016
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2. Type I IFN controls chikungunya virus via its action on nonhematopoietic cells

Author: Stephen Higgs, Marco Colonna, Alain Michault, Fernando Arenzana-Seisdedos, Thérèse Couderc, Nicolas Gangneux, Marion Sourisseau, Matthew L. Albert, Anton Kraxner, Olivier Schwartz, Lucie Peduto, Fabrice Chrétien, Marc Lecuit, Florence Guivel-Benhassine, Jürg Tschopp, Clémentine Schilte, Immunobiologie des Cellules Dendritiques, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Microorganismes et Barrières de l'Hôte (Equipe avenir), Cellules Souches et Développement, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Virus et Immunité, Institute of Biochemistry, Université de Lausanne (UNIL)-BIL Biomedical Research Center, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Service de microbiologie, Groupe Hospitalier Sud-CHR La réunion, Pathogénie Virale Moléculaire, Virologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Immunology, Washington University, Développement des Tissus Lymphoïdes, Centre d'infectiologie Necker-Pasteur [CHU Necker], Institut Pasteur [Paris]-CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), This work was supported in part by grants from L'Agence Nationale de la Récherche and the Institut Pasteur Programmes Traversaux de Recherche (O. Schwartz, M. Lecuit, and M.L. Albert) and La Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, The EURYI Scheme, and European Science Foundation (M.L. Albert)., Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL)-BIL Biomedical Research Center, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Gau, Mireille, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Equipe avenir Microorganismes et Barrières de l'Hôte, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale ( IMRB ), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 ( UPEC UP12 ), Université de Lausanne ( UNIL ) -BIL Biomedical Research Center, The University of Texas Medical Branch ( UTMB ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], and Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 )
Subjects: Immunology, Receptor, Interferon alpha-beta, medicine.disease_cause, Antibodies, Viral, Virus, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Mice, Immune system, Interferon, [ SDV.MP ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/immunology, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism, Alphavirus Infections/blood, Alphavirus Infections/immunology, Animals, Antibodies, Neutralizing/blood, Antibodies, Neutralizing/immunology, Antibodies, Viral/blood, Antibodies, Viral/immunology, Blood Cells/immunology, Blood Cells/metabolism, Chikungunya virus, Humans, Interferon Type I/immunology, Mice, Knockout, RNA, Viral, Receptor, Interferon alpha-beta/immunology, Receptor, Interferon alpha-beta/metabolism, Signal Transduction, Viral Load, medicine, Immunology and Allergy, Chikungunya, Alphavirus infection, [SDV.MP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, 030304 developmental biology, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, 0303 health sciences, Blood Cells, biology, 030306 microbiology, Alphavirus Infections, virus diseases, medicine.disease, Virology, Antibodies, Neutralizing, 3. Good health, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Interferon Type I, biology.protein, Antibody, Viral load, Interferon type I, medicine.drug
Abstract: International audience; Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is the causative agent of an outbreak that began in La Réunion in 2005 and remains a major public health concern in India, Southeast Asia, and southern Europe. CHIKV is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes and the associated disease is characterized by fever, myalgia, arthralgia, and rash. As viral load in infected patients declines before the appearance of neutralizing antibodies, we studied the role of type I interferon (IFN) in CHIKV pathogenesis. Based on human studies and mouse experimentation, we show that CHIKV does not directly stimulate type I IFN production in immune cells. Instead, infected nonhematopoietic cells sense viral RNA in a Cardif-dependent manner and participate in the control of infection through their production of type I IFNs. Although the Cardif signaling pathway contributes to the immune response, we also find evidence for a MyD88-dependent sensor that is critical for preventing viral dissemination. Moreover, we demonstrate that IFN-alpha/beta receptor (IFNAR) expression is required in the periphery but not on immune cells, as IFNAR(-/-)-->WT bone marrow chimeras are capable of clearing the infection, whereas WT-->IFNAR(-/-) chimeras succumb. This study defines an essential role for type I IFN, produced via cooperation between multiple host sensors and acting directly on nonhematopoietic cells, in the control of CHIKV.
Published: 2010
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3. Dynamic interactions and Ca2+-binding modulate the holdase-type chaperone activity of S100B preventing tau aggregation and seeding

Author: Urmi Sengupta, Guilherme G. Moreira, Ana P. Carapeto, Filipa S. Carvalho, Andrea Quezada, Mário Rodrigues, Isabel Cardoso, Guenter Fritz, Nicha Puangmalai, Isabelle Landrieu, Federico Herrera, Rakez Kayed, Cláudio M. Gomes, Joana S. Cristóvão, François Xavier Cantrelle, Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Biologie Structurale Intégrative (ERL 9002 - BSI ), Institut Pasteur de Lille, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Facteurs de Risque et Déterminants Moléculaires des Maladies liées au Vieillissement - U 1167 (RID-AGE), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Hohenheim, This work was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal) through research grants PTDC/NEU-NMC/2138/2014 (to C.M.G.), PTDC/BIA-BQM/29963/2017 (F.S.C.), PTDC/MED-NEU/31417/2017 (to F.H.), and POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007274 (to I.C.), investigator grants CEECIND/00031/2017 (to A.P.C.) and IF/00094/2013/CP1173/CT0005 (to F.H.), PhD fellowship SFRH/BD/101171/2014 (to J.S.C.) and DFA/BD/6443/2020 (to G.G.M.), and center grants UIDB/04046/2020 and UID/MULTI/04046/2020 (to BioISI) and Norte-01-0145-FEDER-000008 (to IBMC/I3S)., Landrieu, Isabelle, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA), and Universidade do Porto
Subjects: [SDV.BBM.BS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Structural Biology [q-bio.BM], Science, Tau protein, General Physics and Astronomy, tau Proteins, S100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunit, Protein Aggregation, Pathological, Article, Biophysical Phenomena, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Cell Line, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Microtubule, Biophysical chemistry, Calcium-binding protein, mental disorders, Humans, Protein folding, [SDV.BBM.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biochemistry [q-bio.BM], Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular, [SDV.BBM.BC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biochemistry [q-bio.BM], 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, biology, [SDV.BBM.BS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Structural Biology [q-bio.BM], Chemistry, Neurodegenerative Diseases, General Chemistry, Kinetics, Proteostasis, Structural biology, Chaperone (protein), biology.protein, Biophysics, Protein Structural Elements, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Molecular Chaperones, Protein Binding, Binding domain
Abstract: The microtubule-associated protein tau is implicated in the formation of oligomers and fibrillar aggregates that evade proteostasis control and spread from cell-to-cell. Tau pathology is accompanied by sustained neuroinflammation and, while the release of alarmin mediators aggravates disease at late stages, early inflammatory responses encompass protective functions. This is the case of the Ca2+-binding S100B protein, an astrocytic alarmin which is augmented in AD and which has been recently implicated as a proteostasis regulator, acting over amyloid β aggregation. Here we report the activity of S100B as a suppressor of tau aggregation and seeding, operating at sub-stoichiometric conditions. We show that S100B interacts with tau in living cells even in microtubule-destabilizing conditions. Structural analysis revealed that tau undergoes dynamic interactions with S100B, in a Ca2+-dependent manner, notably with the aggregation prone repeat segments at the microtubule binding regions. This interaction involves contacts of tau with a cleft formed at the interface of the S100B dimer. Kinetic and mechanistic analysis revealed that S100B inhibits the aggregation of both full-length tau and of the microtubule binding domain, and that this proceeds through effects over primary and secondary nucleation, as confirmed by seeding assays and direct observation of S100B binding to tau oligomers and fibrils. In agreement with a role as an extracellular chaperone and its accumulation near tau positive inclusions, we show that S100B blocks proteopathic tau seeding. Together, our findings establish tau as a client of the S100B chaperone, providing evidence for neuro-protective functions of this inflammatory mediator across different tauopathies., The calcium binding protein S100B is an abundantly expressed protein in the brain and has neuro-protective functions by inhibiting Aβ aggregation and metal ion toxicity. Here, the authors combine cell biology and biochemical experiments with chemical kinetics and NMR measurements and show that S100B protein is an extracellular Tau chaperone and further characterize the interactions between S100B and Tau.
Published: 2021
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4. Antioxidant Supplementation Does Not Affect Bone Turnover Markers During 60 Days of 6° Head-Down Tilt Bed Rest: Results from an Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial

Author: Natalie Baecker, Jean-Pol Frippiat, Katharina Austermann, Peter Stehle, Scott M. Smith, Rolf Fimmers, Martina Heer, Sara R. Zwart, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Stress, Immunité, Pathogènes (SIMPA), Université de Lorraine (UL), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), and NASA
Subjects: Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], medicine.medical_treatment, Medicine (miscellaneous), Parathyroid hormone, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Antioxidants, Collagen Type I, Bone resorption, Bone remodeling, Head-Down Tilt, Selenium, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Fatty Acids, Omega-3, medicine, Humans, Vitamin E, Single-Blind Method, Bone Resorption, 2. Zero hunger, Calcium metabolism, 030109 nutrition & dietetics, Nutrition and Dietetics, biology, business.industry, Polyphenols, Urinary calcium, 3. Good health, Endocrinology, Dietary Supplements, Osteocalcin, biology.protein, Calcium, Bone Remodeling, business, Bed Rest, Biomarkers, Type I collagen
Abstract: International audience; Background Immobilization and related oxidative stress are associated with bone loss. Antioxidants like polyphenols, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins, and micronutrients may mitigate these negative effects on bone metabolism through scavenging of free radicals. Objectives We hypothesized that antioxidant supplementation during 60 days of 6° head-down tilt bed rest (HDBR) would reduce bone resorption and increase bone formation compared to nonsupplemented controls. Methods This exploratory randomized, controlled, single-blind intervention study conducted in a parallel design included 20 healthy male volunteers (age, 34 ± 8 years; weight, 74 ± 6 kg). The study consisted of a 14-day adaptation phase [baseline data collection (BDC)], followed by 60 days of HDBR and a 14-day recovery period (R). In the antioxidant group, volunteers received an antioxidant cocktail (741 mg/d polyphenols, 2.1 g/d omega-3 fatty acids, 168 mg/d vitamin E, and 80 μg/d selenium) with their daily meals. In the control group, volunteers received no supplement. Based on their body weight, all volunteers received an individually tailored and strictly controlled diet, consistent with DRIs. We analyzed biomarkers of calcium homeostasis, bone formation, and bone resorption during BDC, HDBR, and R, as well as for 30 days after the end of HDBR. Data were analyzed by linear mixed models. Results The antioxidant supplement did not affect serum calcium, parathyroid hormone, urinary C-telopeptide of type I collagen (CTX), urinary N-telopeptide of type I collagen, serum β–C-telopeptide of type I collagen (β-CTX), bone alkaline phosphatase, aminoterminal propeptide of type I collagen, osteocalcin, or urinary calcium excretion. In both groups, typical bed rest–related changes were observed. Conclusions Supplementation of an antioxidant cocktail to a diet matching the DRIs did not affect bone resorption or formation during 60 days of HDBR in healthy young men. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT03594799.
Published: 2021
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5. Hepatitis C virus proteins induce lipogenesis and defective triglyceride secretion in transgenic mice

Author: Stanley M. Lemon, Emilie Mérour, Hervé Lerat, Hélène L. Kammoun, Celine Callens, Martin R. Higgs, Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, Fabienne Foufelle, Isabelle Hainault, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-IFR10, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers (CRC (UMR_S 872)), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Service de bactériologie, virologie, hygiène [Mondor], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale ( IMRB ), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 ( UPEC UP12 ), Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers ( CRC (UMR_S 872) ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), The University of Texas Medical Branch ( UTMB ), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 ( UPEC UP12 ), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Guellaen, Georges
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Transgene, Blotting, Western, Mice, Transgenic, Lipids and Lipoproteins: Metabolism, Regulation, and Signaling, Hepacivirus, Biology, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Biochemistry, Mice, Viral Proteins, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, [SDV.BBM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, medicine, Animals, Humans, Secretion, [SDV.BBM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, [ SDV.BBM ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Molecular Biology, Triglycerides, 030304 developmental biology, Cytopathic effect, 0303 health sciences, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Lipogenesis, Fatty liver, virus diseases, Lipid metabolism, Cell Biology, medicine.disease, Hepatitis C, Virology, digestive system diseases, 3. Good health, Fatty Liver, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Disease Models, Animal, Endocrinology, Liver, Unfolded protein response, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Steatosis, Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Protein 1
Abstract: This research was originally published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry. © the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; International audience; Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with altered lipid metabolism and hepatocellular steatosis. Virus-induced steatosis is a cytopathic effect of HCV replication. The goal of this study was to examine the mechanisms underlying HCV-induced lipid metabolic defects in a transgenic mouse model expressing the full HCV protein repertoire at levels corresponding to natural human infection. In this model, expression of the HCV full-length open reading frame was associated with hepatocellular steatosis and reduced plasma triglyceride levels. Triglyceride secretion was impaired, whereas lipogenesis was activated. Increased lipogenic enzyme transcription was observed, resulting from maturational activation and nuclear translocation of sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1c (SREBP1c). However, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress markers were expressed at similar levels in both HCV transgenic mice and their wild type counterparts, suggesting that SREBP1c proteolytic cleavage in the presence of HCV proteins was independent of ER stress. In conclusion, transgenic mice expressing the HCV full-length polyprotein at low levels have decreased plasma triglyceride levels and develop hepatocellular steatosis in the same way as HCV-infected patients. In these mice, SREBP1c activation by one or several HCV proteins induces de novo triglyceride synthesis via the lipogenic pathway, in a manner independent of ER stress, whereas triglyceride secretion is simultaneously reduced.
Published: 2009
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6. Behavioural responses of juvenile cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) to local water movements

Author: Ludovic Dickel, Bernd U. Budelmann, Jean G. Boal, Spogmai Komak, National Resource Center for Cephalopods, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Millersville University - Dpt of Biology, EA3211 Physiologie du Comportement des Céphalopodes, Groupe Mémoire et Plasticité comportementale (GMPc), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), The University of Texas Medical Branch ( UTMB ), Groupe Mémoire et Plasticité comportementale ( GMPc ), Université de Caen Normandie ( UNICAEN ), Normandie Université ( NU ) -Normandie Université ( NU ) -Université de Caen Normandie ( UNICAEN ), and Normandie Université ( NU ) -Normandie Université ( NU )
Subjects: Amphibian, Cuttlefish, Cephalopods, [ SDV.BA.ZI ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology, Physiology, Lateral line, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, Lolliguncula brevis, [ SDV.NEU.PC ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Psychology and behavior, [ SDV.NEU.SC ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Cognitive Sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, biology.animal, Juvenile, 14. Life underwater, Habituation, Sepia, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, biology, [SDV.NEU.PC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Psychology and behavior, Water Movements, [SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience, [SDV.NEU.SC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Cognitive Sciences, Anatomy, biology.organism_classification, lateral line, [SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology, mechanoreception, hearing, [ SCCO.NEUR ] Cognitive science/Neuroscience, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: International audience; Physiological studies have shown that the epidermal head and arm lines in cephalopods are a mechanoreceptive system that is similar to the fish and amphibian lateral lines (Budelmann BU, Bleckmann H. 1988). A lateral line analogue in cephalopods: Water waves generate microphonic potentials in the epidermal head lines of Sepia officinalis and Lolliguncula brevis. J. Comp. Physiol. A, 164: 1–5. . A lateral line analogue in cephalopods: Water waves generate microphonic potentials in the epidermal head lines of Sepia officinalis and Lolliguncula brevis. J. Comp. Physiol. A 164:1–5.); however, the biological significance of the epidermal lines remains unclear. To test whether cuttlefish show behavioural responses to local water movements, juvenile Sepia officinalis were exposed to local sinusoidal water movements of different frequencies (0.01–1000 Hz) produced by a vibrating sphere. Five behavioural responses were recorded: body pattern changing, moving, burrowing, orienting, and swimming. Cuttlefish responded to a wide range of frequencies (20–600 Hz), but not to all of the frequencies tested within that range. No habituation to repeated stimuli was seen. Results indicate that cuttlefish can detect local water movements (most likely with the epidermal head and arm lines) and are able to integrate that information into behavioural responses.
Published: 2005
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7. Pannexin-1 channel opening is critical for COVID-19 pathogenesis

Author: Geoffroy Lorin de la Grandmaison, Antonio Cibelli, David C. Spray, Juan E. Tichauer, Jean Dubuisson, Arielle Rosenberg, Ross H. Luu, Sandrine Belouzard, Eliana Scemes, Elisabeth Cramer-Bordé, Morgane Bomsel, Djillali Annane, Maximiliano Rovegno, Andrea Cottignies-Calamarte, Silvana Valdebenito, Eliseo A. Eugenin, Calude Capron, [Institut Cochin] Departement Infection, immunité, inflammation, Institut Cochin (IC UM3 (UMR 8104 / U1016)), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), New York Medical College (NYMC), Albert Einstein College of Medicine [New York], Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), Service de Virologie [CHU Cochin], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Cochin [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Hôpital Ambroise Paré [AP-HP], Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 (CIIL), Institut Pasteur de Lille, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales [CHU Raymond Poincaré], Hôpital Raymond Poincaré [AP-HP], Service médical des soins intensifs [CHU Raymond Poincaré], Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - UFR Sciences de la santé Simone Veil (UVSQ Santé), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Médecine légale, Anatomo-pathologie et Paléopathologie [CHU Raymond Poincaré], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Raymond Poincaré [AP-HP], Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), The authors acknowledge financial support from the National Institutes of Health grant: MH096625/MH128082, The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NS105584, and UTMB internal funding (to E.A.E).Also, funding from the Flash COVID fund from both ANR and Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (ANR-20-COVI-000 and AO2020- MUCOLUNG-ANR Flash COVID-19 - FRM) was provided to M.B., ANR-20-COVI-0024,MUCOLUNG,Rôle des cellules pulmonaires infectées par le SRAS-CoV-2 et réponse humoral dans l' évolution du COVID-19: de la physiopathologie au test de médicaments candidats dans les modèles de cellules muqueuses(2020), Bomsel, Morgane, and Rôle des cellules pulmonaires infectées par le SRAS-CoV-2 et réponse humoral dans l' évolution du COVID-19: de la physiopathologie au test de médicaments candidats dans les modèles de cellules muqueuses - - MUCOLUNG2020 - ANR-20-COVI-0024 - COVID-19 - VALID
Subjects: Cell biology, Human coronavirus 229E, [SDV.IMM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Science, viruses, Connexin, Endocytosis, medicine.disease_cause, Article, lung, Pathogenesis, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Multiplicity of infection, Virology, medicine, purinergic, education, Furin, Molecular physiology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 030304 developmental biology, Coronavirus, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, biology, Chemistry, COVID-19, virus diseases, Pannexin, biology.organism_classification, respiratory tract diseases, 3. Good health, ATP, Allograft inflammatory factor 1, biology.protein, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) rapidly rampaged worldwide, causing a pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID -19), but the biology of SARS-CoV-2 remains under investigation. We demonstrate that both SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and human coronavirus 229E (hCoV-229E) or its purified S protein, one of the main viruses responsible for the common cold, induce the transient opening of Pannexin-1 (Panx-1) channels in human lung epithelial cells. However, the Panx-1 channel opening induced by SARS-CoV-2 is greater and more prolonged than hCoV-229E/S protein, resulting in an enhanced ATP, PGE2, and IL-1β release. Analysis of lung lavages and tissues indicate that Panx-1 mRNA expression is associated with increased ATP, PGE2, and IL-1β levels. Panx-1 channel opening induced by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2), endocytosis, and furin dependent. Overall, we demonstrated that Panx-1 channel is a critical contributor to SARS-CoV-2 infection and should be considered as an alternative therapy., Graphical abstract, Cell biology; Molecular physiology; Virology
Published: 2021
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8. Editorial: The Autophagy Pathway: Bacterial Pathogen Immunity and Evasion

Author: Jere W. McBride, Chinnaswamy Jagannath, Isabelle Vergne, Weill Medical College of Cornell University [New York], Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Institut de pharmacologie et de biologie structurale (IPBS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Subjects: Salmonella typhimurium, autophagy, Staphylococcus aureus, immunometabolism, Immunology, [SDV.IMM.II]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology/Innate immunity, Microbiology, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Immunity, Immunology and Allergy, Anaplasma, Pathogen, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, biology, Autophagy, RC581-607, biology.organism_classification, Evasion (ethics), Listeria monocytogenes, Anaplasmataceae, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, TFEB, Immunologic diseases. Allergy
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2021
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9. Synaptic dysregulation and hyperexcitability induced by intracellular amyloid beta oligomers

Author: Christian Peters, Jérôme Epsztein, Luis G. Aguayo, Rakez Kayed, Denisse Bascuñán, Urmi Sengupta, Peter James Morgan, Nicolas O Riffo-Lepe, Caroline Filippi, Braulio Muñoz, María Paz Espinoza, Romain Bourboulou, Eduardo J Fernández-Pérez, Universidad de Concepción - University of Concepcion [Chile], Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée [Aix-Marseille Université] (INMED - INSERM U1249), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), George and Cynthia Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and pellegrino, Christophe
Subjects: AMPA‐R, Aging, neuronal nitric oxide synthase, amyloidβ peptide, CLR, synaptic dysregulation, amyloid precursor protein, Hippocampal formation, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, human AD brain-derived Aβ oligomers, Amyloid precursor protein, miniature excitatory post-synaptic currents, miniature post-synaptic currents, chelerythrine, evoked excitatory post-synaptic currents, action potentials, Aβ, APs, 0303 health sciences, hyperexcitability, eEPSC, mIPSC, Alzheimer's disease, eIPSC, NOS, Original Papers, iNOS, mEPSC, eNOS, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], Intracellular, α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid, synthetic Intracellular Aβ oligomers, Amyloid beta, Na v, nNOS, AMPA receptor, Biology, intracellular amyloid beta, Nitric oxide, voltage-dependent sodium channel, NO, 03 medical and health sciences, nitric oxide, nitric, mPSC, [SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], 030304 developmental biology, endothelial nitric oxide synthase, Original Paper, inducible nitric oxide synthase, Cell Biology, evoked inhibitory post-synaptic currents, Chelerythrine, chemistry, miniature inhibitory post-synaptic currents, biology.protein, Retrograde signaling, h-iAβo, Neuroscience, iAβo, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Intracellular amyloid beta oligomer (iAβo) accumulation and neuronal hyperexcitability are two crucial events at early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, to date, no mechanism linking iAβo with an increase in neuronal excitability has been reported. Here, the effects of human AD brain‐derived (h‐iAβo) and synthetic (iAβo) peptides on synaptic currents and action potential firing were investigated in hippocampal neurons. Starting from 500 pM, iAβo rapidly increased the frequency of synaptic currents and higher concentrations potentiated the AMPA receptor‐mediated current. Both effects were PKC‐dependent. Parallel recordings of synaptic currents and nitric oxide (NO)‐associated fluorescence showed that the increased frequency, related to pre‐synaptic release, was dependent on a NO‐mediated retrograde signaling. Moreover, increased synchronization in NO production was also observed in neurons neighboring those dialyzed with iAβo, indicating that iAβo can increase network excitability at a distance. Current‐clamp recordings suggested that iAβo increased neuronal excitability via AMPA‐driven synaptic activity without altering membrane intrinsic properties. These results strongly indicate that iAβo causes functional spreading of hyperexcitability through a synaptic‐driven mechanism and offers an important neuropathological significance to intracellular species in the initial stages of AD, which include brain hyperexcitability and seizures., In the presence of iAβo, PKC is activated (a), which in turn allows the production of nitric oxide (NO) at the post‐synaptic level, increasing the release of neurotransmitters (b) (evidenced as an increase in the frequency of mPSC). PKC also increases AMPA receptor current (c), increasing post‐synaptic depolarization and neuronal excitability (d). Finally, iAβo increases synchronization NO production in nearby neurons that do not have iAβo (e).
Published: 2021
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10. Rational design of universal immunotherapy for TfR1-tropic arenaviruses

Author: Thomas W. Geisbert, Vered Padler-Karavani, Sylvain Baize, Hadas Cohen-Dvashi, Ron Amon, Krystle N. Agans, Aliza Borenstein-Katz, Ron Diskin, Robert W. Cross, Mathieu Mateo, Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël], Tel Aviv University (TAU), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Biologie des Infections Virales Émergentes - Biology of Emerging Viral Infections (UBIVE), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), BSL-4 experiments using MACV were supported by the Pasteur-Weizmann joint research program collaborative research grant S-CR18069-02 to M.M. and R.D. BSL-4 operations of the Galveston National Laboratory and Department of Microbiology and Immunology are supported by NIAID/NIH Grant No. UC7AI094660 to T.W.G. The lab of R.D. is supported by research grants from the Enoch Foundation, from the Abramson Family Center for Young Scientists, from Ms. Rudolfine Steindling, and from the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and The Israel Science Foundation (grants no. 1775/12 and 682/16)., Tel Aviv University [Tel Aviv], Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), and Bodescot, Myriam
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, New World Arenavirus, Viral protein, medicine.medical_treatment, Science, viruses, General Physics and Astronomy, Transferrin receptor, Biologics, Biology, Antibodies, Viral, medicine.disease_cause, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Viral Proteins, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Virology, Receptors, Transferrin, medicine, Arenaviridae Infections, Humans, lcsh:Science, X-ray crystallography, [SDV.MP.VIR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Multidisciplinary, Transmission (medicine), Rational design, virus diseases, Arenavirus, General Chemistry, Immunotherapy, Antibodies, Neutralizing, Arenaviruses, 3. Good health, Hemorrhagic Fevers, 030104 developmental biology, Drug Design, [SDV.SP.PHARMA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Pharmaceutical sciences/Pharmacology, Biological warfare, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, [SDV.SP.PHARMA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Pharmaceutical sciences/Pharmacology, Receptors, Virus, lcsh:Q, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Certain arenaviruses that circulate in rodent populations can cause life-threatening hemorrhagic fevers when they infect humans. Due to their efficient transmission, arenaviruses pose a severe risk for outbreaks and might be exploited as biological weapons. Effective countermeasures against these viruses are highly desired. Ideally, a single remedy would be effective against many or even all the pathogenic viruses in this family. However, despite the fact that all pathogenic arenaviruses from South America utilize transferrin receptor 1 (TfR1) as a cellular receptor, their viral glycoproteins are highly diversified, impeding efforts to isolate cross-neutralizing antibodies. Here we address this problem using a rational design approach to target TfR1-tropic arenaviruses with high potency and breadth. The pan-reactive molecule is highly effective against all arenaviruses that were tested, offering a universal therapeutic approach. Our design scheme avoids the shortcomings of previous immunoadhesins and can be used to combat other zoonotic pathogens., New World arenaviruses utilize the cellular transferrin receptor 1 (TfR1) to enter host cells. Here, the authors develop a TfR1-mimetic immunoadhesin, Arenacept, that targets viral spike complexes and exerts effective pan-reactive neutralization against pathogenic mammarenaviruses.
Published: 2020
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11. First evidence of predation of the ant species Lasius alienus on the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae

Author: Kar, Sirri, Akyildiz, Gurkan, Sirin, Deniz, Rodriguez, Sergio, Camlitepe, Yilmaz, Tekirdag Namik Kemal University (NKÜ), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and Trakya University
Subjects: 0106 biological sciences, Dermanyssidae, Poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, predator, Arthropoda, Aacriformes, Biological pest control, Lasius alienus, Zoology, ants, Acariformes, 01 natural sciences, Predation, Mite, Animalia, Acari, poultry red mite, Taxonomy, biology, Ants, Biodiversity, biology.organism_classification, [SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology, 010602 entomology, Insect Science, Predator, [SDV.EE.IEO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Symbiosis
Abstract: The poultry red mite (PRM), Dermanyssus gallinae (De Geer, 1778) (Acari: Dermanyssidae), is a common and significant ectoparasite of the poultry industry worldwide. Although various biological, chemical, and physical methods have been attempted, an utterly successful control strategy has not been put forward yet. Our experimental investigations and observations revealed that the ant species Lasius alienus displays an effective predatory behavior on all biological stages of PRM. Our results also suggested that L. alienus is attracted by PRM-infested substrate at a distance. We concluded that predation by the ant on PRM is worth further investigation as it could possibly be an effective biological control strategy., Acarologia, 61, 115-120
Published: 2021
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12. Resurgence of Ebola Virus in 2021 in Guinea Suggests a New Paradigm for Outbreaks

Author: Fodé B. Sako, Jacob Camara, Amadou A. Sall, Ariane Düx, Giuditta Annibaldis, Meike Pahlmann, Abdoulaye Toure, Ousmane Faye, Mamadou Condé, Haby Diallo, Steven T. Pullan, Amadou Sidibe, Moriba Povogui, Fara Raymond Koundouno, Christophe Peyrefitte, Liana E. Kafetzopoulou, Alpha Kabinet Keita, Saa L. Millimono, Mandiou Diakite, Ahmadou Doré, Karla Pietro, N'. Faly Magassouba, Fabian H. Leendertz, Nicole Vidal, Stephan Günther, Anke Thielebein, Julia Hinzmann, Dembo Diakite, Ahidjo Ayouba, Cheikh Loucoubar, Kaka Kourouma, Martin Faye, Philippe Lemey, Moussa Moïse Diagne, Mamadou D. Barry, Fodé Y. Soumah, Annick Renevey, Georges Ki-Zerbo, Kékoura Ifono, Andrew Rambaut, Abdoul K. Soumah, Miles W. Carroll, Mamadou S. Bah, Joseph Akoi Bore, Ibrahima Camara, Mamadou S. Sow, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Fodé A. Traore, Sophie Duraffour, Assaïtou Bah, John T. McCrone, Nathalie J. Vielle, Joshua Quick, Noël Tordo, Moussa Baldé, Mamadou Diop, Youssouf Sidibé, Martine Peeters, Madeleine Kourouma, Sakoba Keita, Mamadou B. Keita, Frédéric Le Marcis, Cé D. Saouromou, Anais Legand, Amadou Diallo, Pierre Formenty, Almudena Mari-Saez, Michael R. Wiley, Karifa Kourouma, Eric Delaporte, Barré Soropogui, Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses endémiques et émergentes (TransVIHMI), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Yaoundé I-Université Cheikh Anta Diop [Dakar, Sénégal] (UCAD)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Laboratoire des Fièvres Hémorragiques en Guinée, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine - Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin [Hamburg, Germany] (BNITM), Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Robert Koch Institute [Berlin] (RKI), German Center for Infection Research - Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Centre de Recherche et de Formation en Infectiologie de Guinée [Conakry, Guinée] (CERFIG), Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique (TRIANGLE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (IEP Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hôpital National Donka, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics [Oxford], University of Oxford, Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Vecteurs - Infections tropicales et méditerranéennes (VITROME), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées [Brétigny-sur-Orge] (IRBA), CEA Tech Grand-Est (DGDE), CEA Tech en régions (CEA-TECH-Reg), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut National de Santé Publique [Conakry, Guinée] (INSP), Ministère de la Santé [Conakry, Guinea], Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère et de l'Océan Siméon Fongang (LPAO-SF), École Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar (ESP), Université Cheikh Anta Diop [Dakar, Sénégal] (UCAD)-Université Cheikh Anta Diop [Dakar, Sénégal] (UCAD), Public Health England, University of Birmingham [Birmingham], Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), World Health Organization [Geneva], The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), University of Nebraska Medical Center, University of Nebraska System, Institut Pasteur de Guinée, Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées [Antenne Marseille] (IRBA), University of Edinburgh, Division Prévention et Lutte contre la Maladie, Ministère de la Santé et de l’Hygiène Publique, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Lyon, Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department [Montpellier], Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Cheikh Anta Diop [Dakar, Sénégal] (UCAD), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology [Leipzig], Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, ANR-16-IDEX-0006,MUSE,MUSE(2016), Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses endémiques er émergentes (TransVIHMI), Université Cheikh Anta Diop [Dakar, Sénégal] (UCAD)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Yaoundé I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 1 (UM1), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (IEP Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), University of Oxford [Oxford], Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR48, INSB-INSB-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CEA Tech Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine, École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (IEP Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Michel de l'Hospital : laboratoire de recherche en sciences juridiques et politiques (CMH ), and Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
Subjects: Male, Zaire ebolavirus, Time Factors, viruses, Disease, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Disease cluster, Models, Biological, Viral Zoonoses, Virus, Disease Outbreaks, 03 medical and health sciences, Ebola virus, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Animals, Humans, Survivors, 030212 general & internal medicine, Clade, Phylogeny, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, Transmission (medicine), Guinea-2021, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Outbreak, Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola, [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology, Ebolavirus, Virology, 3. Good health, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Female, Persistent Infection, epidemiology, Guinea, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie
Abstract: Seven years after the declaration of the first epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Guinea, the country faced a new outbreak—between 14 February and 19 June 2021—near the epicentre of the previous epidemic1,2. Here we use next-generation sequencing to generate complete or near-complete genomes of Zaire ebolavirus from samples obtained from 12 different patients. These genomes form a well-supported phylogenetic cluster with genomes from the previous outbreak, which indicates that the new outbreak was not the result of a new spillover event from an animal reservoir. The 2021 lineage shows considerably lower divergence than would be expected during sustained human-to-human transmission, which suggests a persistent infection with reduced replication or a period of latency. The resurgence of Zaire ebolavirus from humans five years after the end of the previous outbreak of Ebola virus disease reinforces the need for long-term medical and social care for patients who survive the disease, to reduce the risk of re-emergence and to prevent further stigmatization. The viral lineage responsible for the February 2021 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea is nested within a clade that predominantly consists of genomes sampled during the 2013–2016 epidemic, suggesting that the virus might have re-emerged after a long period of latency within a previously infected individual.
Published: 2021
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13. Zika in the Americas, year 2: What have we learned? What gaps remain? A report from the Global Virus Network

Author: Matthew T. Aliota, Nikos Vasilakis, Edward McSweegan, Leda Bassit, Michael J. Ricciardi, Thomas C. Friedrich, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Natalia Mercer, Geraldine Schott-Lerner, George R. Saade, Thaddeus G. Golos, Shelton S. Bradrick, Diane E. Griffin, Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, Lisa F. P. Ng, Pei Yong Shi, Diogo M. Magnani, Bryan Cox, Christina Gavegnano, Marc Lecuit, Chao Shan, Caroline Marrs, Andrew D. Haddow, David I. Watkins, Jorge E. Osorio, Scott C. Weaver, Raymond F. Schinazi, David H. O’Connor, Esper G. Kallas, Shannan L. Rossi, Uriel Kitron, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Emory University [Atlanta, GA], The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Global Virus Network, University of South Florida [Tampa] (USF), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [Baltimore], Johns Hopkins University (JHU), U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), Biologie des Infections - Biology of Infection, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU) (Imagine - U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine (UMMSM), Agency for science, technology and research [Singapore] (A*STAR), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Work from the authors’ laboratories was funded by in part by U.S. National Institutes of Health grants: R01NS087539-S1 (to DEG), R21AI129607 (to RFS), and R24AI120942, R01AI121452 (to SCW) R01 AI107157-01A1 (to TGG), R01AI116382-01A1S1 (to DHO), U01AI115577 (to NV) and P51 OD011106 (to the WNPRC)., U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, University of São Paulo (USP), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut des Maladies Génétiques Imagine [Paris], Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Gerontology, medicine.medical_specialty, Asia, Sexual transmission, MALFORMAÇÕES, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Disease, Antiviral therapy, Nervous System Malformations, Arbovirus, Article, Zika virus, 03 medical and health sciences, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, Virology, Drug Discovery, Pandemic, Disease Transmission, Infectious, medicine, Animals, Maternal-fetal transmission, Pharmacology, Vaccines, [SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, biology, Diagnostic Tests, Routine, Zika Virus Infection, business.industry, Transmission (medicine), Public health, Outbreak, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical, 3. Good health, Congenital manifestations, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, 030104 developmental biology, Family medicine, Africa, Communicable Disease Control, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Americas, business, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology
Abstract: International audience; In response to the outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in the Western Hemisphere and the recognition of a causal association with fetal malformations, the Global Virus Network (GVN) assembled an international taskforce of virologists to promote basic research, recommend public health measures and encourage the rapid development of vaccines, antiviral therapies and new diagnostic tests. In this article, taskforce members and other experts review what has been learned about ZIKV-induced disease in humans, its modes of transmission and the cause and nature of associated congenital manifestations. After describing the make-up of the taskforce, we summarize the emergence of ZIKV in the Americas, Africa and Asia, its spread by mosquitoes, and current control measures. We then review the spectrum of primary ZIKV-induced disease in adults and children, sites of persistent infection and sexual transmission, then examine what has been learned about maternal-fetal transmission and the congenital Zika syndrome, including knowledge obtained from studies in laboratory animals. Subsequent sections focus on vaccine development, antiviral therapeutics and new diagnostic tests. After reviewing current understanding of the mechanisms of emergence of Zika virus, we consider the likely future of the pandemic.
Published: 2017
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14. GloPID-R report on chikungunya, o'nyong-nyong and Mayaro virus, part 5: Entomological aspects

Author: Thomas Jaenisch, Anubis Vega-Rúa, Patrícia Brasil, M. G. Rosa-Freitas, Michael A. Drebot, P. Gallian, Sébastien Boyer, Maria Rios, Amadou A. Sall, Laura Pezzi, Anna-Bella Failloux, Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, Lisa F. P. Ng, Michael S. Diamond, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Scott C. Weaver, Mariama Dalanda Diallo, Nikos Vasilakis, A. J. Rodriguez-Morales, Alain Kohl, François Simon, Michael P. Busch, André Siqueira, Chantal Reusken, Jan Felix Drexler, Johan Neyts, Graham Simmons, X. de Lamballerie, Marc Lecuit, Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), EA Bioscope Corse Méditerranée : Dynamique des infections virales en milieu insulaire, Université Pascal Paoli (UPP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Agency for science, technology and research [Singapore] (A*STAR), Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin], German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Arbovirus et Insectes Vecteurs - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), University of California [San Francisco] (UC San Francisco), University of California (UC), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), Public Health Agency of Canada, Etablissement Français du Sang - Alpes-Méditerranée (EFS - Alpes-Méditerranée), Etablissement Français du Sang, Heidelberg University Hospital [Heidelberg], Stanford School of Medicine [Stanford], Stanford Medicine, Stanford University-Stanford University, Biologie des Infections - Biology of Infection, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Service des Maladies infectieuses et tropicales [CHU Necker], CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Rega Institute for Medical Research [Leuven, België], National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven] (RIVM), Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz / Gonçalo Moniz Research Centre - Fiocruz Bahia [Salvador, Brésil] (IGM), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira [Colombie] (UTP), Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Laveran, Service de Santé des Armées, BUISINE, Soline, Virology, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pascal Paoli (UPP), Institut Pasteur [Paris], University of California [San Francisco] (UCSF), University of California, and Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Primates, Research Report, GloPID-R chikungunya, o'nyong-nyong and Mayaro virus Working Group, Aedes albopictus, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], 030106 microbiology, Aedes aegypti, Mosquito Vectors, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, Aedes, Virology, Anopheles, medicine, Animals, Humans, O'nyong-nyong Virus, Chikungunya, Haemagogus, [SDV.MP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Pharmacology, [SDV.MP.VIR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, biology, Alphavirus Infections, Yellow fever, Outbreak, virus diseases, Central America, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Infectious disease (medical specialty), Africa, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Enzootic, Chikungunya Fever, Chikungunya virus
Abstract: The GloPID-R (Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness) chikungunya (CHIKV), o'nyong-nyong (ONNV) and Mayaro virus (MAYV) Working Group has been established to investigate natural history, epidemiology and clinical aspects of infection by these viruses. Here, we present a report dedicated to entomological aspects of CHIKV, ONNV and MAYV. Recent global expansion of chikungunya virus has been possible because CHIKV established a transmission cycle in urban settings using anthropophilic vectors such as Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti. MAYV and ONNV have a more limited geographic distribution, being confined to Africa (ONNV) and central-southern America (MAYV). ONNV is probably maintained through an enzootic cycle that has not been characterized yet, with Anopheles species as main vectors and humans as amplification hosts during epidemics. MAYV is transmitted by Haemagogus species in an enzootic cycle using non-human primates as the main amplification and maintenance hosts, and humans becoming sporadically infected when venturing in or nearby forest habitats. Here, we focused on the transmission cycle and natural vectors that sustain circulation of these viruses in their respective locations. The knowledge of the natural ecology of transmission and the capacity of different vectors to transmit these viruses is crucial to understand CHIKV emergence, and to assess the risk that MAYV and ONNV will expand on wide scale using anthropophilic mosquito species not normally considered primary vectors. Finally, the experts identified knowledge gaps and provided adapted recommendations, in order to address future entomological investigations in the right direction. ispartof: ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH vol:174 ispartof: location:Netherlands status: published
Published: 2019
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15. Strengthening the Interaction of the Virology Community with the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by Linking Virus Names and Their Abbreviations to Virus Species

Author: Dennis Rubbenstroth, Thomas Briese, Victoria Wahl, Timothy H. Hyndman, Andrew D. Haddow, Sead Sabanadzovic, Arvind Varsani, Rémi N. Charrel, J. Rodney Brister, Mart Krupovic, Scott C. Weaver, Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes, Boris Klempa, A. Desiree LaBeaud, Takahide Sasaya, Jonas Klingström, Norbert Nowotny, Sandra Junglen, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Susan Payne, Martin H. Groschup, Piet Maes, Ralf Dürrwald, Charles F. Fulhorst, Hideki Ebihara, Francisco Murilo Zerbini, Jens H. Kuhn, Mark D. Stenglein, Charles H. Calisher, Nikos Vasilakis, Andrew M. Kropinski, George Fú Gāo, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Columbia University [New York], National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Robert Koch Institute [Berlin] (RKI), Mayo Clinic, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), United States Army (U.S. Army), Murdoch University, Humboldt State University (HSU), Slovak Academy of Science [Bratislava] (SAS), Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], University of Guelph, Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles (BMGE), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Stanford School of Medicine [Stanford], Stanford Medicine, Stanford University-Stanford University, Rega Institute for Medical Research [Leuven, België], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), University of Veterinary Medicine [Vienna] (Vetmeduni), Ministry of Health [Brasília, Brazil], Texas A&M University [College Station], Mississippi State University [Mississippi], National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center [Frederick], U.S. Social Security Administration, Universidade Federal de Vicosa (UFV), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda] (NIAID-NIH), This work was supported by Battelle Memorial Institute’s prime contract with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Contract No. HHSN272200700016I (J.H.K.), by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant R24 AI120942 (S.C.W and N.V.), and by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Library of Medicine (J.R.B.). S.S. acknowledges support from Mississippi State University (MSU)—Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES) Strategic Research Initiative grants. This work was also funded in part under ContractNo. HSHQDC-15-C-00064 awarded by DHS S&T for the management and operation of the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), a federally funded research and development center (V.W.), The authors thank Laura Bollinger, Integrated Research Facility, for critically editing the manuscript. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the US Department of Defense or the US Army, of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, or of the institutions and companies affiliated with the authors. In no event shall any of these entities have any responsibility or liability for any use, misuse, inability to use, or reliance upon the information contained herein. The US departments do not endorse any products or commercial services mentioned in this publication, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), and Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa (UFV)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Classifica??o / m?todos, International Cooperation, viruses, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], 030106 microbiology, species, virus, Biology, [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Virus, Points of View, 03 medical and health sciences, taxonomy, Unclassified Viruses, (ICTV), Virology, Genetics, Nomenclature, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Virus classification, Taxonomy, 2. Zero hunger, Species, Arbovirus, Phylum, Arbovirus / classifica??o, Classification, humanities, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, Taxon, classification, Viruses, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Mandate, Taxonomy (biology), nomenclature, Terminologia como Assunto
Abstract: This work was supported by Battelle Memorial Institute?s prime contract with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Contract No. HHSN272200700016I (J.H.K.), by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant R24 AI120942 (S.C.W and N.V.), and by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Library of Medicine (J.R.B.). S.S. acknowledges support from Mississippi State University (MSU)?Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES) Strategic Research Initiative grants. This work was also funded in part under ContractNo. HSHQDC-15-C-00064 awarded by DHS S&T for the management and operation of the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), a federally funded research and development center (V.W.) Colorado State University. College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory. Fort Collins, CO, USA. Columbia University. Mailman School of Public Health. Center for Infection and Immunity. Department of Epidemiology. New York, NY, USA. National Institutes of Health. National Library of Medicine. National Center for Biotechnology. Bethesda, MD, USA. Universit? Aix-Marseille. Facult? de M?decine. HU M?diterran?e Infection. Unit? des Virus Emergents. Marseille, France. Robert Koch-Institut. Department of Infectious Diseases. Berlin, Germany. Guggenheim Building. Mayo Clinic. Department of Molecular Medicine. Rochester, MN USA. University of Texas Medical Branch. Department of Pathology. Galveston, TX, USA. Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention. Beijing, China. Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, S?dufer. Institut f?r Virusdiagnostik. Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany. United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Department of Virology. Frederick, MD, USA. Murdoch University. School of Veterinary and Life Sciences. College of Veterinary Medicine. Australia Australia. Humboldt-University Berlin. Berlin Institute of Health. Charit? Universit?tsmedizin Berlin. Institute of Virology. Berlin, Germany / Inhoffenstra?e 7. Deutsches Zentrum f?r Infektionsforschung. Braunschweig, Germany. Slovensk? Akad?mia Vied. Biomedic?nske centrum. Virologick? ?stav. D?bravsk?, Bratislava, Slovakia. Robert Koch-Institut. Department of Infectious Diseases. Berlin, Germany. University of Guelph. Department of Food Sciencen. Guelph, Ontario, Canada / University of Guelph. Department of Pathobiology. Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Institut Pasteur. Departement of Microbiology. Paris, France. Stanford University School of Medicine. Department of Pediatrics. Division of Infectious Diseases. Stanford, CA, USA. KU Leuven. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation. Rega Institute. Zoonotic Infectious Diseases unit. Leuven, Belgium. University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Department of Pathobiology. Institute of Virology. Veterin?rplatz, Vienna, Austria / Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Department of Basic Medical Sciences. College of Medicine. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Minist?rio da Sa?de. Secretaria de Vigil?ncia em Sa?de. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil. Texas A&M University. Veterinary Medical Sciences Building. College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Department of Veterinary Pathobiology. TX, USA. United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Molecular and Translational Sciences. Frederick, MD, USA. Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, S?dufer. Institut f?r Virusdiagnostik. Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany / Universit?tsklinikum Freiburg. Institut f?r Virologie. Freiburg, Germany. Mississippi State University. Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology. Mississippi State, MS, USA. National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. Department of Planning and Coordination. Ibaraki, Japan. Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Fort Collins, CO, USA. Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine. The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics. Tempe, AZ, USA. National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center. Frederick, MD, USA. University of Texas Medical Branch. Institute for Human Infections and Immunity. Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Galveston, TX, USA. Universidade Federal de Vi?osa. Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO and National Institute of Science and Technology for Plant-Pest Interactions. Vi?osa, MG, Brazil. University of Texas Medical Branch. Institute for Human Infection and Immunity. Center for Tropical Diseases. Department of Pathology, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Galveston, TX, USA. Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick. Frederick, MD, USA. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is tasked with classifying viruses into taxa (phyla to species) and devising taxon names. Virus names and virus name abbreviations are currently not within the ICTV's official remit and are not regulated by an official entity. Many scientists, medical/veterinary professionals, and regulatory agencies do not address evolutionary questions nor are they concerned with the hierarchical organization of the viral world, and therefore, have limited use for ICTV-devised taxa. Instead, these professionals look to the ICTV as an expert point source that provides the most current taxonomic affiliations of viruses of interests to facilitate document writing. These needs are currently unmet as an ICTV-supported, easily searchable database that includes all published virus names and abbreviations linked to their taxa is not available. In addition, in stark contrast to other biological taxonomic frameworks, virus taxonomy currently permits individual species to have several members. Consequently, confusion emerges among those who are not aware of the difference between taxa and viruses, and because certain well-known viruses cannot be located in ICTV publications or be linked to their species. In addition, the number of duplicate names and abbreviations has increased dramatically in the literature. To solve this conundrum, the ICTV could mandate listing all viruses of established species and all reported unclassified viruses in forthcoming online ICTV Reports and create a searchable webpage using this information. The International Union of Microbiology Societies could also consider changing the mandate of the ICTV to include the nomenclature of all viruses in addition to taxon considerations. With such a mandate expansion, official virus names and virus name abbreviations could be catalogued and virus nomenclature could be standardized. As a result, the ICTV would become an even more useful resource for all stakeholders in virology.
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16. Comparative Loss-of-Function Screens Reveal ABCE1 as an Essential Cellular Host Factor for Efficient Translation of Paramyxoviridae and Pneumoviridae

Author: Kristmundur Sigmundsson, Danielle E. Anderson, So Young Kim, Zhen Zhen Joanna Yeo, Sharon F. Jamison, Kristin Pfeffermann, James L. Pearson, Bevan Sawatsky, Mikhail Kovtun, Lin-Fa Wang, Pierre J. Talbot, Veronika von Messling, Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, Yvonne Krebs, David L. Corcoran, Linda J. Rennick, W. Paul Duprex, Duke-NUS Medical School [Singapore], Paul-Ehrlich-Institute - Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines (EPI), Duke University [Durham], National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Institut Armand Frappier (INRS-IAF), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique [Québec] (INRS)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), This work was supported by grants CIHR MOP-66989 of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, CFI 9488 Canada Foundation for Innovation, DZIF TTU Emerging Infections SFB1021 of the German Center for Infection Research, and intramural funding of the German Ministry of Health to V.V.M., NMRC/BNIG/2030/2015 (Singapore) to D.E.A., and USA NIH R01-AI089526 and R01-AI101431 to M.A.G.-B. and R01-AI099100 to W.P.D., and We thank members of our laboratories, past and present, for constructive comments throughout this project. We thank the Duke Functional Genomics Shared Resource for work related to the primary siRNA screens. We are grateful to Jaisri Lingappa for sharing the ABCE1 antibody and peptide sequence during our preliminary studies. We thank Ian Mendenhall for his assistance in the construction of the phylogenetic tree and Kevin Wittwer and Oliver Siering for technical assistance. We greatly appreciate the help provided by Robert Tampé, Ralph Wieneke, and Simon Trowitzsch with the phosphorimager and Andrea Maisner and Marc Ringel with the confocal microscope. We thank Stephan Becker for critical comments on the manuscript.
Subjects: MESH: Gene Expression, Paramyxoviridae, ABCE1, respiratory syncytial virus, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], host factor, MESH: Pneumovirus/pathogenicity, RNA-binding protein, Computational biology, Microbiology, 03 medical and health sciences, Virology, MESH: RNA, Small Interfering, MESH: RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics, MESH: ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/genetics, [SDV.BBM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Pneumoviridae, RNAi screen, MESH: RNA, Messenger, 030304 developmental biology, Host factor, 0303 health sciences, MESH: Humans, biology, MESH: Paramyxoviridae/pathogenicity, 030302 biochemistry & molecular biology, Translation (biology), Pneumovirus, biology.organism_classification, QR1-502, MESH: Host Microbial Interactions/genetics, 3. Good health, Vesicular transport protein, biology.protein, MESH: A549 Cells, MESH: Computational Biology
Abstract: International audience; Paramyxoviruses and pneumoviruses have similar life cycles and share the respiratory tract as a point of entry. In comparative genome-scale siRNA screens with wild-type-derived measles, mumps, and respiratory syncytial viruses in A549 cells, a human lung adenocarcinoma cell line, we identified vesicular transport, RNA processing pathways, and translation as the top pathways required by all three viruses. As the top hit in the translation pathway, ABCE1, a member of the ATP-binding cassette transporters, was chosen for further study. We found that ABCE1 supports replication of all three viruses, confirming its importance for viruses of both families. More detailed characterization revealed that ABCE1 is specifically required for efficient viral but not general cellular protein synthesis, indicating that paramyxoviral and pneumoviral mRNAs exploit specific translation mechanisms. In addition to providing a novel overview of cellular proteins and pathways that impact these important pathogens, this study highlights the role of ABCE1 as a host factor required for efficient paramyxovirus and pneumovirus translation.IMPORTANCE The Paramyxoviridae and Pneumoviridae families include important human and animal pathogens. To identify common host factors, we performed genome-scale siRNA screens with wild-type-derived measles, mumps, and respiratory syncytial viruses in the same cell line. A comparative bioinformatics analysis yielded different members of the coatomer complex I, translation factors ABCE1 and eIF3A, and several RNA binding proteins as cellular proteins with proviral activity for all three viruses. A more detailed characterization of ABCE1 revealed its essential role for viral protein synthesis. Taken together, these data sets provide new insight into the interactions between paramyxoviruses and pneumoviruses and host cell proteins and constitute a starting point for the development of broadly effective antivirals.
Published: 2019
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17. GloPID-R report on Chikungunya, O'nyong-nyong and Mayaro virus, part I: Biological diagnostics

Author: A. J. Rodriguez-Morales, M. G. Rosa-Freitas, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Nikos Vasilakis, Lisa F. P. Ng, Mariama Dalanda Diallo, Scott C. Weaver, Patrícia Brasil, Jan Felix Drexler, Johan Neyts, Anna-Bella Failloux, François Simon, Alain Kohl, A. Vega Rua, Maria Rios, Michael P. Busch, Michael S. Diamond, André Siqueira, Michael A. Drebot, P. Gallian, Sébastien Boyer, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Chantal Reusken, Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, Thomas Jaenisch, Marc Lecuit, Laura Pezzi, X. de Lamballerie, Graham Simmons, Amadou A. Sall, Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Laboratoire de Virologie [UNIV Corse-Inserm] (EA7310), Université Pascal Paoli (UPP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven] (RIVM), Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin], Humboldt University Of Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), University of California [San Francisco] (UC San Francisco), University of California (UC), Stanford School of Medicine [Stanford], Stanford Medicine, Stanford University-Stanford University, Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), Public Health Agency of Canada, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), University of Glasgow, Biologie des Infections - Biology of Infection, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IMAGINE - U1163), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Agency for science, technology and research [Singapore] (A*STAR), Etablissement Français du Sang - Alpes-Méditerranée (EFS - Alpes-Méditerranée), Etablissement Français du Sang, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Arbovirus et Insectes Vecteurs - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Heidelberg University Hospital [Heidelberg], Rega Institute for Medical Research [Leuven, België], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira [Colombie] (UTP), Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Laveran, Service de Santé des Armées, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Publication fees were covered by the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R)., Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pascal Paoli (UPP), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of California [San Francisco] (UCSF), University of California, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin / Charite - University Medicine Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Stanford University School of Medicine [Stanford], Stanford University [Stanford], Washington University in St Louis, Federal University of Bahia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Arbovirus et Insectes Vecteurs, and Rega Institute for Medical Research
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Genes, Viral, 030106 microbiology, Disease, Alphavirus, Mosquito Vectors, Cross Reactions, medicine.disease_cause, Antibodies, Viral, Communicable Diseases, Emerging, Virus, 03 medical and health sciences, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Virology, O'nyong-nyong, Epidemiology, medicine, Animals, Humans, O'nyong-nyong Virus, Chikungunya, Pathology, Molecular, Diagnostics, Phylogeny, Pharmacology, biology, business.industry, Alphavirus Infections, Outbreak, biology.organism_classification, Mayaro virus, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, Cryoglobulinemia, Infectious disease (medical specialty), Preparedness, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Chikungunya Fever, business, Chikungunya virus
Abstract: The GloPID-R (Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness) Chikungunya (CHIKV), O'nyong-nyong (ONNV) and Mayaro virus (MAYV) Working Group is investigating the natural history, epidemiology and medical management of infection by these viruses, to identify knowledge gaps and to propose recommendations for direct future investigations and rectification measures. Here, we present the first report dedicated to diagnostic aspects of CHIKV, ONNV and MAYV. Regarding diagnosis of the disease at the acute phase, molecular assays previously described for the three viruses require further evaluation, standardized protocols and the availability of international standards representing the genetic diversity of the viruses. Detection of specific IgM would benefit from further investigations to clarify the extent of cross-reactivity among the three viruses, the sensitivity of the assays, and the possible interfering role of cryoglobulinaemia. Implementation of reference panels and external quality assessments for both molecular and serological assays is necessary. Regarding sero-epidemiological studies, there is no reported high-throughput assay that can distinguish among these different viruses in areas of potential co-circulation. New specific tools and/or improved standardized protocols are needed to enable large-scale epidemiological studies of public health relevance to be performed. Considering the high risk of future CHIKV, MAYV and ONNV outbreaks, the Working Group recommends that a major investigation should be initiated to fill the existing diagnostic gaps. ispartof: ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH vol:166 pages:66-81 ispartof: location:Netherlands status: published
Published: 2019
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18. Taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales: second update 2018

Author: J. Christopher S. Clegg, Taiyun Wei, Sandra Junglen, Joseph L. DeRisi, F. Murilo Zerbini, Michele Digiaro, Xueping Zhou, R. O. Resende, Hideki Ebihara, Boris Klempa, Il-Ryong Choi, Jonas Klingström, Eric Bergeron, Anna Papa, Mark D. Stenglein, Scott Adkins, Rayapati A. Naidu, Xavier de Lamballerie, Shyi Dong Yeh, Víctor Romanowski, Massimo Turina, Koray Ergünay, Carol D. Blair, Anne Lise Haenni, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Matthew J. Ballinger, Yong-Zhen Zhang, Robert B. Tesh, Jens H. Kuhn, Amadou A. Sall, Nicole Mielke-Ehret, Charles H. Calisher, Martin Beer, Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes, Charles F. Fulhorst, Takahide Sasaya, Stanley A. Langevin, Giovanni P. Martelli, Aura R. Garrison, Roy A. Hall, Connie S. Schmaljohn, Holly R. Hughes, Rakesh K. Jain, Martin H. Groschup, Roger Hewson, Manuela Sironi, Clarence J. Peters, Anna E. Whitfield, Tatjana Avšič-Županc, Alexander Plyusnin, Felicity J. Burt, Rémi N. Charrel, Ali Mirazimi, Amy J. Lambert, Peter Simmonds, Michael J. Buchmeier, Toufic Elbeaino, Marco Marklewitz, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, Janusz T. Paweska, Jin Won Song, Xiǎohóng Shí, Igor S. Lukashevich, Hans Peter Mühlbach, Yukio Shirako, George Fú Gāo, Gustavo Palacios, Dennis A. Bente, Piet Maes, Richard Kormelink, Stephan Günther, Maria S. Salvato, S. V. Alkhovsky, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Mike Drebot, Thomas Briese, Miranda Gilda Jonson, Jessica R. Spengler, Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), University of Ljubljana, Institute of Diagnostic Virology (IVD), Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Fundación Instituto Leloir [Buenos Aires], Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University [New York], Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), International Rice Research Institute [Philippines] (IRRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), The Scripps Research Institute [La Jolla, San Diego], Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rochester [USA], Hacettepe University = Hacettepe Üniversitesi, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Conditions et territoires d'émergence des maladies : dynamiques spatio-temporelles de l'émergence, évolution, diffusion/réduction des maladies, résistance et prémunition des hôtes (CTEM), Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine - Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin [Hamburg, Germany] (BNITM), Institut Jacques Monod (IJM (UMR_7592)), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Public Health England [Salisbury] (PHE), Humboldt State University (HSU), Slovak Academy of Science [Bratislava] (SAS), Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Laboratory of Virology [Wageningen], Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Department of Systems Biology, Sandia National Laboratories, Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro = University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA), Center for Microbiological Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Department of Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers, Instituto Evandro Chagas, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Virology [Helsinki], Haartman Institute [Helsinki], Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular [La Plata] (IBBM), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas [La Plata], Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP)-Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP), Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Divison of Plant Protection, National Agricultural Research Center, National Agricultural Research Center, University of Edinburgh, Centro San Giovanni di Dio, Fatebenefratelli, Brescia (IRCCS), Università degli Studi di Brescia = University of Brescia (UniBs), Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham] (UAB), Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC), Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda] (NIAID-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Medical School, University of Ljubljana, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), The Scripps Research Institute [La Jolla], University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California-University of California, University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA), Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases [USA] (USAMRIID), University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki-Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Università degli Studi di Brescia [Brescia], Agriculture and Agri-Food [Ottawa] (AAFC), and Universidade Federal de Vicosa (UFV)
Subjects: [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Family Arenaviridae, Laboratory of Virology, cogovirus, bunyavirus, Biology, Bunyaviridae / classifica??o, Medical and Health Sciences, Article, Laboratorium voor Virologie, ICTV, 03 medical and health sciences, Tospovirus, Virology, Life Science, Animals, Humans, Arenaviridae Infections, Bunyavirales, Arenaviridae, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Phylogeny, 030304 developmental biology, 2. Zero hunger, 0303 health sciences, Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, 030306 microbiology, General Medicine, Biological Sciences, Arenaviridae / classifica??o, Arbovirus / classifica??o, Genealogy, humanities, 3. Good health, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, classification, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Taxonomy (biology), EPS
Abstract: This work was supported in part through Battelle Memorial Institute?s prime contract with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Contract No. HHSN272200700016I (J.H.K.). This work was also funded in part by National Institutes of Health (NIH) contract HHSN272201000040I/HHSN27200004/D04 and grant R24AI120942 (R.B.T.) Rega Institute. Infectious Diseases unit. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. United States Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Research Service. US Horticultural Research Laboratory. Fort Pierce, FL, USA. Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. N. F. Gamaleya Federal Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. D. I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology. Moscow, Russia. University of Ljubljana. Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Mississippi State University. Department of Biological Sciences. Mississippi State, MS, USA. University of Texas Medical Branch. Galveston, TX, USA. Institute of Diagnostic Virology. Friedrich-Loefer-Institut. Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology. Viral Special Pathogens Branch. Atlanta, GA, USA. Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology. Immunology & Pathology, Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory. Fort Collins, CO, USA. Columbia University. Center for Infection and Immunity. Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health. New York, NY, USA. University of California. Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Irvine, CA, USA. National Health Laboratory Service. Division of Virology. Bloemfontein. Republic of South Africa / University of the Free State. Division of Virology. Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa. Colorado State University. Department of Microbiology. Immunology & Pathology, Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory. Fort Collins, CO, USA. Unit? des Virus Emergents (Aix-Marseille Univ?IRD 190? Inserm 1207?IHU M?diterran?e Infection). Marseille, France. International Rice Research Institute. Plant Breeding Genetics and Biotechnology Division. Los Ba?os, Philippines. Les MandinauxLe Grand Madieu. France. The Scripps Research Institute. Department of Immunology and Microbiology IMM-6. La Jolla, USA. Unit? des Virus Emergents (Aix-Marseille Univ?IRD 190?Inserm 1207?IHU M?diterran?e Infection). Marseille, France. University of California. Department of Medicine. San Francisco, USA / University of California. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. San Francisco, USA / University of California. Department of Microbiology. San Francisco, USA. Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari. Valenzano, Italy. Public Health Agency of Canada. National Microbiology Laboratory. Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens. Winnipeg, Canada. Mayo Clinic. Department of Molecular Medicine. Rochester, USA. Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari. Valenzano, Italy. Hacettepe University. Faculty of Medicine. Department of Medical Microbiology. Virology Unit. Ankara, Turkey. University of Texas Medical Branch. Galveston, TX, USA. United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Fort Detrick, Frederick, USA. Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention. Beijing, China. Kansas State University. Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Disease. Manhattan, USA. Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention. Beijing, China / Fudan University. Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & Institutes of Biomedical Sciences. Shanghai, China. WHO Collaborating Centre for Arboviruses and Hemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research. Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. Department of Virology. Hamburg, Germany. CNRS- Paris-Diderot. Institut Jacques Monod. Paris, France. The University of Queensland. School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences. Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre. Brisbane, Australia. Public Health England. Salisbury, UK. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fort Collins, USA. Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Division of Plant Pathology. New Delhi, India. Seoul National University. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Fungal Pathogenesis. Seoul, Korea. Humboldt-University Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health. corporate member of Free University Berlin. Institute of Virology. Charit?-Universit?tsmedizin Berlin. Berlin, Germany / German Centre for Infection Research. Berlin, Germany. Humboldt-University Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health. corporate member of Free University Berlin. Institute of Virology. Charit?-Universit?tsmedizin Berlin. Berlin, Germany / Slovak Academy of Sciences. Biomedical Research Center. Bratislava, Slovakia. Karolinska University Hospital. Center for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. Department of Medicine Huddinge. Stockholm, Sweden. Wageningen University. Department of Plant Sciences. Laboratory of Virology. Wageningen, The Netherlands. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fort Collins, USA. University of Washington. Department of Microbiology. Washington, USA. University of Louisville. School of Medicine. The Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Louisville, USA. Humboldt-University Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health. corporate member of Free University Berlin. Institute of Virology. Charit?-Universit?tsmedizin Berlin. Berlin, Germany / German Centre for Infection Research. Berlin, Germany. University of Bari Aldo Moro. Department of Plant, Soil and Food Sciences. Bari, Italy. University of Hamburg. Biocentre Klein Flottbek. Hamburg, Germany. Folkhalsomyndigheten. Stockholm, Sweden. University of Hamburg. Biocentre Klein Flottbek. Hamburg, Germany. Washington State University. Irrigated Agricultural Research and Extension Center. Department of Plant Pathology. Prosser, USA. Minist?rio da Sa?de. Secretaria de Vigil?ncia em Sa?de. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Centro de Inova??es Tecnol?gicas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil. United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Fort Detrick, Frederick, USA. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. National Reference Centre for Arboviruses and Haemorrhagic Fever Viruses. Department of Microbiology, Medical School. Thessaloniki, Greece. National Health Laboratory Service. National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases. Sandringham, South Africa / University of Pretoria. Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Faculty of Health Sciences. Department of Medical Virology. Pretoria South Africa. University of Texas Medical Branch. Galveston, TX, USA. University of Helsinki. Department of Virology. Medicum, Helsinki, Finland. United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Fort Detrick, Frederick, USA. Universidade de Bras?lia. Departamento de Biologia Celular. Bras?lia , DF, Brazil. Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas. Centro Cientifico Technol?gico-La Plata. Instituto de Biotecnolog?a y Biolog?a Molecular. La Plata, Argentina. Institut Pasteur de Dakar. Dakar, Senegal. University of Maryland School of Medicine. Institute of Human Virology. Baltimore, USA. National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. Department of Planning and Coordination. Tsukuba, Japan. United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Fort Detrick, Frederick, USA. MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. Glasgow, UK. University of Tokyo. Asian Center for Bioresources and Environmental Sciences. Tokyo, Japan. University of Oxford. Department of Medicine. Oxford, UK. Bioinformatics Scientific Institute IRCCS E. MEDEA. Bosisio Parini, Italy. Korea University. College of Medicine. Department of Microbiology. Seoul. Republic of Korea. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology. Viral Special Pathogens Branch. Atlanta, GA, USA. Colorado State University. Immunology and Pathology. Department of Microbiology. Fort Collins, USA. University of Texas Medical Branch. Galveston, TX, USA. CNR. Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection. Torino, Italy. Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. Institute of Plant Virology. Fujian Province Key Laboratory of Plant Virology. Fuzhou, China. North Carolina State University. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology. Raleigh, USA. National Chung Hsing University. Department of Plant Pathology. Taichung, Taiwan. Universidade Federal de Vi?osa. Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO. Vi?osa, MG, Brazil. Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention. Beijing, China / Fudan University. Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & Institutes of Biomedical Sciences. Shanghai, China. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Institute of Plant Protection. State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests. Beijing, China. National Institutes of Health (NIH). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Division of Clinical Research (DCR). Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick). Frederick, USA. In October 2018, the order Bunyavirales was amended by inclusion of the family Arenaviridae, abolishment of three families, creation of three new families, 19 new genera, and 14 new species, and renaming of three genera and 22 species. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).
Published: 2019
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19. Meeting the challenge of tick-borne disease control: A proposal for 1000 Ixodes genomes

Author: Timothy J. Kurtti, Karen D. McCoy, Ala E. Tabor, Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Claude Rispe, Manuel Rodriguez Valle, Ulrike G. Munderloh, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Catherine A. Hill, Jyothi Thimmapuram, José de la Fuente, Maria V. Murgia, Saravanan Thangamani, Olivier Plantard, Ben J. Mans, Purdue University [West Lafayette], University of Liverpool, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC), University of Minnesota [Twin Cities] (UMN), University of Minnesota System, University of South Africa (UNISA), Evolution of host-microbe communities (MIVEGEC-EVCO), Processus Écologiques et Évolutifs au sein des Communautés (PEEC), Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Biologie, Epidémiologie et analyse de risque en Santé Animale (BIOEPAR), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École nationale vétérinaire, agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes-Atlantique (ONIRIS), University of Queensland [Brisbane], The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), University of Minnesota [Twin Cities], Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Subjects: Ixodes ricinus, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], education, 030231 tropical medicine, Tick, Microbiology, Genome, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Animals, Humans, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Tick-borne disease, biology, Ixodes, Genomics, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, Infectious Diseases, Evolutionary biology, Tick-Borne Diseases, Insect Science, Parasitology
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2019
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20. Changes in the Transmission Dynamic of Chikungunya Virus in Southeastern Senegal

Author: Scott C. Weaver, Oumar Ndiaye, Abdourahmane Sow, Mawlouth Diallo, Bakary Djilocalisse Sadio, Amadou A. Sall, Ousmane Faye, Anta Tall Dia, Birgit Nikolay, Oumar Faye, Denis Malvy, Jorge Cano, Simon Cauchemez, Arbovirus et Virus de Fièvres Hémorragiques [Dakar, Sénégal], Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Université Cheikh Anta Diop [Dakar, Sénégal] (UCAD), Team MORPH3EUS (INSERM U1219 - UB - ISPED), Bordeaux population health (BPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Modélisation mathématique des maladies infectieuses, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique - Bioinformatics and Biostatistics HUB, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Unité d'Entomologie Médicale [Dakar] (UEM), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Grant Number AI1069145., Modélisation mathématique des maladies infectieuses - Mathematical modelling of Infectious Diseases, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Limouzin, Cécile
Subjects: Male, Rural Population, 0301 basic medicine, Veterinary medicine, lcsh:QR1-502, environmental risk, MESH: Chikungunya Fever, Forests, Antibodies, Viral, medicine.disease_cause, Logistic regression, spatial autocorrelation, Population density, lcsh:Microbiology, law.invention, MESH: Aged, 80 and over, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Rural Population, Seroepidemiologic Studies, [MATH.MATH-ST]Mathematics [math]/Statistics [math.ST], law, MESH: Child, Chikungunya, Child, [MATH.MATH-ST] Mathematics [math]/Statistics [math.ST], Aged, 80 and over, MESH: Aged, MESH: Immunoglobulin G, MESH: Middle Aged, Age Factors, virus diseases, Middle Aged, MESH: Forests, MESH: Mining, MESH: Infant, Senegal, 3. Good health, Infectious Diseases, Transmission (mechanics), MESH: Young Adult, Child, Preschool, Female, Sylvatic cycle, Adult, Adolescent, MESH: Population Density, 030231 tropical medicine, Environment, Biology, Article, Mining, gold mining, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Senegal, Virology, medicine, Humans, Seroprevalence, MESH: Environment, Aged, Population Density, MESH: Adolescent, MESH: Age Factors, MESH: Seroepidemiologic Studies, MESH: Humans, MESH: Child, Preschool, Infant, Outbreak, MESH: Adult, Odds ratio, 15. Life on land, MESH: Male, 030104 developmental biology, Immunoglobulin G, Chikungunya Fever, MESH: Female, MESH: Antibodies, Viral
Abstract: In Senegal, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is maintained in a sylvatic cycle and causes sporadic cases or small outbreaks in rural areas. However, little is known about the influence of the environment on its transmission. To address the question, 120 villages were randomly selected in the Kedougou region of southeastern Senegal. In each selected village, 10 persons by randomly selected household were sampled and tested for specific anti-CHIKV IgG antibodies by ELISA. We investigated the association of CHIKV seroprevalence with environmental variables using logistic regression analysis and the spatial correlation of village seroprevalence based on semivariogram analysis. Fifty-four percent (51%&ndash, 57%) of individuals sampled during the survey tested positive for CHIKV-specific IgG. CHIKV seroprevalence was significantly higher in populations living close to forested areas (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Odds Ratio (OR) = 1.90 (1.42&ndash, 2.57)), and was negatively associated with population density (OR = 0.76 (0.69&ndash, 0.84)). In contrast, in gold mining sites where population density was &gt, 400 people per km2, seroprevalence peaked significantly among adults (46% (27%&ndash, 67%)) compared to all other individuals (20% (12%&ndash, 31%)). However, traditional gold mining activities significantly modify the transmission dynamic of CHIKV, leading to a potential increase of the risk of human exposition in the region.
Published: 2020
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21. rbFOX1/MBNL1 competition for CCUG RNA repeats binding contributes to myotonic dystrophy type 1/type 2 differences

Author: Frédéric H.-T. Allain, Nicolas Charlet-Berguerand, Frank Ruffenach, John W. Day, Giovanni Meola, Masanori P. Takahashi, Chantal Sellier, Estefanía Cerro-Herreros, Jack Puymirat, Denis Furling, Angeline Gaucherot, Guillaume Bassez, Ruben Artero, Markus Blatter, Beatriz Llamusi, Fernande Freyermuth, Harutoshi Fujimura, Partha S. Sarkar, Bjarne Udd, Benedikt Schoser, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biomedical Research Institute [Valencia, Spain] (INCLIVA ), Universitat de València (UV), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Neurology Department, Tampere University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Stanford University, University of Milan, Università degli Studi di Milano, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Institut de Myologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Association française contre les myopathies (AFM-Téléthon)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Toneyama National Hospital, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] (LMU), Medicum, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Centre de recherche en Myologie – U974 SU-INSERM, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Association française contre les myopathies (AFM-Téléthon)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Models, Molecular, Protein Conformation, alpha-Helical, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], General Physics and Astronomy, Gene Expression, RNA-binding protein, Crystallography, X-Ray, chemistry.chemical_compound, MOLECULAR-BASIS, Gene expression, MBNL1, Myotonic Dystrophy, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Multidisciplinary, CHLORIDE CHANNEL, RNA-Binding Proteins, Recombinant Proteins, 3. Good health, Cell biology, CONGENITAL HEART-DISEASE, Drosophila melanogaster, Thermodynamics, SKELETAL-MUSCLE, RNA Splicing Factors, CUG REPEATS, Protein Binding, musculoskeletal diseases, STEADY-STATE, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, Science, RBFOX1, Biology, Myotonic dystrophy, Binding, Competitive, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, Escherichia coli, Animals, Humans, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Binding site, Nucleotide Motifs, Muscle, Skeletal, SPLICING REGULATOR RBFOX2, MUSCLEBLIND PROTEINS, Binding Sites, PRE-MESSENGER-RNA, RNA, General Chemistry, medicine.disease, Disease Models, Animal, Kinetics, 030104 developmental biology, chemistry, TRIPLET REPEAT, Protein Conformation, beta-Strand, 3111 Biomedicine
Abstract: Myotonic dystrophy type 1 and type 2 (DM1, DM2) are caused by expansions of CTG and CCTG repeats, respectively. RNAs containing expanded CUG or CCUG repeats interfere with the metabolism of other RNAs through titration of the Muscleblind-like (MBNL) RNA binding proteins. DM2 follows a more favorable clinical course than DM1, suggesting that specific modifiers may modulate DM severity. Here, we report that the rbFOX1 RNA binding protein binds to expanded CCUG RNA repeats, but not to expanded CUG RNA repeats. Interestingly, rbFOX1 competes with MBNL1 for binding to CCUG expanded repeats and overexpression of rbFOX1 partly releases MBNL1 from sequestration within CCUG RNA foci in DM2 muscle cells. Furthermore, expression of rbFOX1 corrects alternative splicing alterations and rescues muscle atrophy, climbing and flying defects caused by expression of expanded CCUG repeats in a Drosophila model of DM2., Myotonic dystrophy (DM) type 2 is a neuromuscular pathology caused by large expansions of CCTG repeats. Here the authors find that rbFOX1 RNA binding protein binds to CCUG RNA repeats and competes with MBNL1 for the binding to CCUG repeats, releasing MBNL1 from sequestration in DM2 muscle cells.
Published: 2018
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22. Novel Wolbachia strains in Anopheles malaria vectors from Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: James Orsborne, Thomas Walker, Fara Nantenaina Raharimalala, Francis Wat’senga, Kamil Khanipov, Mojca Kristan, Yuriy Fofanov, Yaw A. Afrane, Grant L. Hughes, Emile Z Manzambi, Kalil Keita, Seth R. Irish, Gena G. Lawrence, Eliot Hurn, Denka Camara, Claire L. Jeffries, Janvier Bandibabone, Georgiy Golovko, Shivanand Hegde, Sébastien Boyer, Tarekegn A. Abeku, Yaya Barry, Kirstin Spence, Luciano Michaël Tantely, Abdul Rahim Mohammed, Maria Pimenova, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Atlanta] (CDC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles [Lwiro, Congo] (CRSN), Unité d'Entomologie Médicale [Antananarivo, Madagascar] (IPM), Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Ministère de la Santé [Conakry, Guinea], Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale [Kinshasa] (INRB), University of Ghana, Malaria Consortium, London, UK, and CLJ and TW were supported by a Wellcome Trust /Royal Society grant awarded to TW (101285): http://www.wellcome.ac.uk
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Range (biology), media_common.quotation_subject, Anopheles gambiae, 030231 tropical medicine, malaria, Prevalence, Zoology, Medicine (miscellaneous), Asaia, Insect, Plasmodium, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, symbols.namesake, 03 medical and health sciences, endosymbionts, 0302 clinical medicine, Anopheles, parasitic diseases, medicine, Parasite hosting, Microbiome, reproductive and urinary physiology, mosquitoes, 030304 developmental biology, media_common, Sanger sequencing, 0303 health sciences, biology, fungi, Articles, biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, symbols, Multilocus sequence typing, bacteria, Wolbachia, Malaria, Research Article
Abstract: Background: Wolbachia, a common insect endosymbiotic bacterium that can influence pathogen transmission and manipulate host reproduction, has historically been considered absent from the Anopheles (An.) genera, but has recently been found in An. gambiae s.l. populations in West Africa. As there are numerous Anopheles species that have the capacity to transmit malaria, we analysed a range of species across five malaria endemic countries to determine Wolbachia prevalence rates, characterise novel Wolbachia strains and determine any correlation between the presence of Plasmodium, Wolbachia and the competing bacterium Asaia. Methods: Anopheles adult mosquitoes were collected from five malaria-endemic countries: Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Uganda and Madagascar, between 2013 and 2017. Molecular analysis was undertaken using quantitative PCR, Sanger sequencing, Wolbachia multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and high-throughput amplicon sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. Results: Novel Wolbachia strains were discovered in five species: An. coluzzii, An. gambiae s.s., An. arabiensis, An. moucheti and An. species A, increasing the number of Anopheles species known to be naturally infected. Variable prevalence rates in different locations were observed and novel strains were phylogenetically diverse, clustering with Wolbachia supergroup B strains. We also provide evidence for resident strain variants within An. species A. Wolbachia is the dominant member of the microbiome in An. moucheti and An. species A but present at lower densities in An. coluzzii. Interestingly, no evidence of Wolbachia/Asaia co-infections was seen and Asaia infection densities were shown to be variable and location dependent. Conclusions: The important discovery of novel Wolbachia strains in Anopheles provides greater insight into the prevalence of resident Wolbachia strains in diverse malaria vectors. Novel Wolbachia strains (particularly high-density strains) are ideal candidate strains for transinfection to create stable infections in other Anopheles mosquito species, which could be used for population replacement or suppression control strategies.
Published: 2018
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23. Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018

Author: Kang Seuk Choi, Nikos Vasilakis, Claudio Verdugo, Janusz T. Paweska, Thomas Briese, Víctor Manuel Neira Ramírez, Andrew J. Bennett, Masayuki Horie, Charles H. Calisher, Robert Kityo, Anthony R. Fooks, Martin Schwemmle, Sunil K. Mor, Nidia G. Aréchiga Ceballos, Timothy H. Hyndman, Ayato Takada, Yíngyún Caì, Robert A. Lamb, Alexander Bukreyev, Paul A. Rota, Tony L. Goldberg, Lin-Fa Wang, Benhur Lee, Kartik Chandran, Hideki Ebihara, Michael R. Wiley, Ralf G. Dietzgen, Anna E. Whitfield, Mark D. Stenglein, Piet Maes, Andrew J. Easton, Jean L. Patterson, Valerian V. Dolja, Olga Dolnik, Eugene V. Koonin, James F. X. Wellehan, Ralf Dürrwald, Peter L. Collins, Qisheng Song, Susan Payne, Jonathan S. Towner, Sina Bavari, Sonia Vázquez-Morón, Pierre Formenty, Sophie J. Smither, Keizō Tomonaga, Leslie L. Domier, Dàohóng Jiāng, Gael Kurath, Robert B. Tesh, Sergey V. Netesov, Elodie Ghedin, Andrea Maisner, Denise A. Marston, Cristine Campos Lawson, Elke Mühlberger, Christopher F. Basler, Conrad M. Freuling, Yǒng Zhèn Zhāng, Dennis Rubbenstroth, Peter J. Walker, Gōngyín Yè, David Wang, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Gustavo Palacios, Gary P. Kobinger, Yuri I. Wolf, Timothy Song, Hideki Kondō, Mart Krupovic, Karla Prieto, David M. Stone, Luciano M. Thomazelli, Colin A. Chapman, Ashley C. Banyard, Jens H. Kuhn, Stuart G. Siddell, Noël Tordo, John M. Dye, Terry Fei Fan Ng, Charles Y. Chiu, Kim R. Blasdell, Bertus K. Rima, Victoria Wahl, Eric M. Leroy, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Juan Emilio Echevarría, Norbert Nowotny, Roger Hewson, Thomas Müller, Viktor E. Volchkov, Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), University of Washington [Seattle], Laboratorio de Rabia, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencias Epidemiológicos, Animal and Plant Health Agency [Weybridge] (APHA), Georgia State University, University System of Georgia (USG), U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison-Influenza Research Institute, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University [New York], The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Albert Einstein College of Medicine [New York], Department of Anthropology [Montréal], McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, University of California [San Francisco] (UC San Francisco), University of California (UC), Avian Disease Research Division, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda] (NIAID-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), University of Queensland [Brisbane], Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University (OSU), Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Philipps Universität Marburg = Philipps University of Marburg, University of Chicago, IDT Biologika, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick [Coventry], Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rochester [USA], Institute of Health Carlos III, Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Department of Viroscience [Rotterdam, The Netherlands], Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health - Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology [New York], New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU)-New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU), Public Health England [Salisbury] (PHE), Kagoshima University, Murdoch University, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University [Wuhan] (HZAU), Makerere University [Kampala, Ouganda] (MAK), Research Centre in Infectious Diseases, CHUL Research Centre and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval)-Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles (BMGE), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), US Geological Survey [Seattle], United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), Northwestern University [Evanston], Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Neuromuscular Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Minnesota [Twin Cities] (UMN), University of Minnesota System-University of Minnesota System, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Universidad de Chile = University of Chile [Santiago] (UCHILE), Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Department of Medicine [San Francisco], University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), University of Veterinary Medicine [Vienna] (Vetmeduni), Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, TX], National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg] (NICD), Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), University of Freiburg [Freiburg], University of Bristol [Bristol], Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (UK) (MOD), University of Missouri [Columbia] (Mizzou), University of Missouri System, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [Weymouth] (CEFAS), Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], Universidade de São Paulo - USP (BRAZIL), Institute for Virus Research, Stratégies antivirales, Institut Pasteur de Guinée, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-WHO Collaborative Centre for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias [Buenos Aires], Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA), Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity (BMPV), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center [Frederick], U.S. Social Security Administration, CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Ecoscience Precinct, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Duke-NUS Medical School [Singapore], University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), University of Nebraska Medical Center, University of Nebraska System, Kansas State University, State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease prevention and Control, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases [USA] (USAMRIID), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, McGill University, Kyoto University [Kyoto], University of California [San Francisco] (UCSF), University of California, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland (UQ), Philipps University of Marburg, Warwick University, Public Health England [Porton Down, Salisbury], Huazhong Agricultural University, Makerere University (MAK), Faculty of Medicine-Laval University [Québec], Okayama University [Okayama], Institut Pasteur [Paris], Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, University of Minnesota [Twin Cities], Universidad de Chile, University of California-University of California, Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, Texas], National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Centre for Experimental Medicine [Queen’s University of Belfast], University of Bristol (School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine), University of Missouri [Columbia], Hokkaido University, Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Duke NUS Medical School, University of Florida [Gainesville], and Virology
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Order Mononegavirales, 040301 veterinary sciences, Mononegavirales Infections, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, General Medicine, Biology, Data science, Virology, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, Article, 0403 veterinary science, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Humans, Animals, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Taxonomy (biology), Mononegavirales, Phylogeny
Abstract: International audience; In 2018, the order Mononegavirales was expanded by inclusion of 1 new genus and 12 novel species. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) and summarizes additional taxonomic proposals that may affect the order in the near future.
Published: 2018
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24. Assessing the epidemiological effect of wolbachia for dengue control

Author: Scott Leslie O'Neill, Neil M. Ferguson, Thomas W. Scott, Louis Lambrechts, Peter A. Ryan, Scott C. Weaver, Cameron P. Simmons, Elizabeth A. McGraw, Scott A. Ritchie, Eva Harris, Eng Eong Ooi, Edward C. Holmes, Interactions Virus-Insectes (IVI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling [London], Imperial College London, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, School of Biological Sciences [Clayton], Monash University [Clayton], Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitative Sciences, James Cook University (JCU), Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), University of California-University of California, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine [Oxford], University of Oxford [Oxford], Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nossal Institute of Global Health, University of Melbourne, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), This work was supported by a grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health through the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), and University of Oxford
Subjects: and promotion of well-being, Dengue virus, medicine.disease_cause, Dengue fever, Dengue, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, Aedes, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Epidemiology, 2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment, Aetiology, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, [SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, biology, 3. Good health, Human morbidity, Mosquito control, Infectious Diseases, Research Design, Medical Microbiology, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Public Health and Health Services, Wolbachia, Infection, medicine.medical_specialty, Clinical Sciences, Computational biology, Microbiology, Virus, Article, Rare Diseases, parasitic diseases, medicine, Animals, Humans, Pest Control, Biological, 3.2 Interventions to alter physical and biological environmental risks, Prevention, Dengue Virus, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, Biological, Prevention of disease and conditions, Virology, Insect Vectors, Vector-Borne Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Good Health and Well Being, Geographical cluster, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Pest Control, [SDV.EE.IEO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Symbiosis
Abstract: International audience; Dengue viruses cause more human morbidity and mortality than any other arthropod-borne virus. Dengue prevention relies mainly on vector control; however, the failure of traditional methods has promoted the development of novel entomological approaches. Although use of the intracellular bacterium wolbachia to control mosquito populations was proposed 50 years ago, only in the past decade has its use as a potential agent of dengue control gained substantial interest. Here, we review evidence that supports a practical approach for dengue reduction through field release of wolbachia-infected mosquitoes and discuss the additional studies that have to be done before the strategy can be validated and implemented. A crucial next step is to assess the efficacy of wolbachia in reducing dengue virus transmission. We argue that a cluster randomised trial is at this time premature because choice of wolbachia strain for release and deployment strategies are still being optimised. We therefore present a pragmatic approach to acquiring preliminary evidence of efficacy through various complementary methods including a prospective cohort study, a geographical cluster investigation, virus phylogenetic analysis, virus surveillance in mosquitoes, and vector competence assays. This multipronged approach could provide valuable intermediate evidence of efficacy to justify a future cluster randomised trial.
Published: 2015
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25. Zika, Chikungunya, and Other Emerging Vector-Borne Viral Diseases

Author: Scott C. Weaver, Caroline Charlier, Nikos Vasilakis, Marc Lecuit, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Biologie des Infections - Biology of Infection, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Institut des Maladies Génétiques Imagine [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU) (Imagine - U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, chikungunya, viruses, 030231 tropical medicine, mosquito, Aedes aegypti, Mosquito Vectors, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Arbovirus, Communicable Diseases, Emerging, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Dengue fever, yellow fever, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Zika, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, medicine, Animals, Humans, Chikungunya, Rift Valley fever, [SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, Zika Virus Infection, Yellow fever, virus diseases, General Medicine, Japanese encephalitis, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Virology, dengue, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, arbovirus, Virus Diseases, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Enzootic, Chikungunya Fever, Arboviruses, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology
Abstract: International audience; Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) have a long history of emerging to infect humans, but during recent decades, they have been spreading more widely and affecting larger populations. This is due to several factors, including increased air travel and uncontrolled mosquito vector populations. Emergence can involve simple spillover from enzootic (wildlife) cycles, as in the case of West Nile virus accompanying geographic expansion into the Americas; secondary amplification in domesticated animals, as seen with Japanese encephalitis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, and Rift Valley fever viruses; and urbanization, in which humans become the amplification hosts and peridomestic mosquitoes, mainly Aedes aegypti, mediate human-to-human transmission. Dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika viruses have undergone such urban emergence. We focus mainly on the latter two, which are recent arrivals in the Western Hemisphere. We also discuss a few other viruses with the potential to emerge through all of these mechanisms.
Published: 2018
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26. Chikungunya Outbreak in Kedougou, Southeastern Senegal in 2009-2010

Author: Manfred Weidmann, Cheikh Tidiane Diagne, Abdourahmane Sow, Rubing Chen, Amadou A. Sall, Oumar Ndiaye, Mathilde Guerbois, Scott C. Weaver, Ousmane Faye, Diawo Diallo, Abdourahmane Faye, Cheikh Sadibou Senghor, Youssoupha Ndiaye, Mawlouth Diallo, Bakary Djilocalisse Sadio, Anta Tall Dia, Oumar Faye, Denis Malvy, Kathryn A. Hanley, Douglas M. Watts, Ousmane M. Diop, Arbovirus et Virus de Fièvres Hémorragiques [Dakar, Sénégal], Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Université Cheikh Anta Diop [Dakar, Sénégal] (UCAD), Bordeaux population health (BPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), District sanitaire de Saraya, District sanitaire de Kedougou, University of Texas [El Paso] (UTEP ), New Mexico State University, and The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (Grant Number 5R01A 1069145).
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, sylvatic circulation, 030231 tropical medicine, medicine.disease_cause, Chikungunya fever, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, medicine, Major Article, Chikungunya, Viral isolation, Aedes, [SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, School age child, biology, outbreak, business.industry, Outbreak, virus diseases, biology.organism_classification, Senegal, 3. Good health, Kedougou, 030104 developmental biology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Ethnology, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, business, Chikungunya virus
Abstract: Background In Senegal, Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which is an emerging mosquito-borne alphavirus, circulates in a sylvatic and urban/domestic cycle and has caused sporadic human cases and epidemics since 1960s. However, the real impact of the CHIKV sylvatic cycle in humans and mechanisms underlying its emergence still remains unknown. Methodology One thousand four hundred nine suspect cases of CHIKV infection, recruited from 5 health facilities located in Kedougou region, south-eastern Senegal, between May 2009 to March 2010, together with 866 serum samples collected from schoolchildren from 4 elementary schools in May and November 2009 from Kedougou were screened for anti-CHIKV immunoglobulin (Ig)M antibodies and, when appropriate, for viral nucleic acid by real-time polymerase chain reaction (rPCR) and virus isolation. In addition, mosquitoes collected in the same area from May 2009 to January 2010 were tested for CHIKV by rPCR and by virus isolation, and 116 monkeys sera collected from March 2010 to May 2010 were tested for anti-CHIKV IgM and neutralizing antibodies. Results The main clinical manifestations of the CHIKV suspect cases were headache, myalgia, and arthralgia. Evidence for CHIKV infection was observed in 1.4% (20 of 1409) of patients among suspect cases. No significant difference was observed among age or sex groups. In addition, 25 (2.9%) students had evidence of CHIKV infection in November 2009. Chikungunya virus was detected in 42 pools of mosquitoes, mainly from Aedes furcifer, and 83% of monkeys sampled were seropositive. Conclusions Our findings further documented that CHIKV is maintained in a sylvatic transmission cycle among monkeys and Aedes mosquitoes in Kedougou, and humans become infected by exposure to the virus in the forest.
Published: 2018
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27. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG increases cyclooxygenase-2 expression and prostaglandin E2 secretion in colonic myofibroblasts via a MyD88-dependent mechanism during homeostasis

Author: Daniel L. Worthley, Maria C. Urdaci, Philippe Bressollier, Romain Villeger, Rachel Dillard, Don W. Powell, Gabriela Uribe, Irina V. Pinchuk, Timothy C. Wang, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Microbes, Intestin, Inflammation et Susceptibilité de l'Hôte (M2iSH), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine d'Auvergne (CRNH d'Auvergne), Laboratoire de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (LCSN), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST FR CNRS 3503), Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (GA TECH), Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta], Chimie et Biologie des Membranes et des Nanoobjets (CBMN), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Travaux Agricoles - Bordeaux (ENITAB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine d'Auvergne (CRNH d'Auvergne)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), École Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Travaux Agricoles - Bordeaux (ENITAB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Microbes, Intestin, Inflammation et Susceptibilité de l'Hôte - Clermont Auvergne (M2iSH), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine d'Auvergne (CRNH d'Auvergne), and Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-École Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Travaux Agricoles - Bordeaux (ENITAB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Stromal cell, Colon, Immunology, Prostaglandin, Administration, Oral, Mice, Transgenic, [SDV.BC.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology/Subcellular Processes [q-bio.SC], Biology, Microbiology, [SDV.IMM.II]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology/Innate immunity, Article, Dinoprostone, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Downregulation and upregulation, Virology, [SDV.BC.IC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology/Cell Behavior [q-bio.CB], medicine, Animals, Homeostasis, Humans, Prostaglandin E2, [SDV.BBM.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biochemistry [q-bio.BM], Myofibroblasts, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Leukotriene, Innate immune system, Arachidonate 5-Lipoxygenase, Arachidonic Acid, Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus, Probiotics, [SDV.BBM.BM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, [SDV.BBM.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biomolecules [q-bio.BM], Mice, Inbred C57BL, 030104 developmental biology, Eicosanoid, chemistry, Cyclooxygenase 2, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88, Cancer research, Caco-2 Cells, [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, medicine.drug
Abstract: Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2 ) plays a critical role in intestinal mucosal tolerance and barrier integrity. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2)-dependent PGE2 production involves mobilisation of arachidonic acid. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LbGG) is one of the most widely used probiotics reported to colonise the colonic mucosa. LbGG contributes to the protection of the small intestine against radiation injury through the repositioning of mucosal COX-2 expressing cells. However, it is unknown if LbGG modulates PGE2 production in the colonic mucosa under homeostasis and the major cellular elements involved in these processes. Colonic epithelial and CD90+ mesenchymal stromal cells, also known as (myo) fibroblasts (CMFs), are abundant innate immune cells in normal colonic mucosa able to produce PGE2 . Herein, we tested the hypothesis that under colonic mucosal homeostasis, LbGG modulates the eicosanoid pathway resulting in increased PGE2 production in both epithelial and stromal cells. Among the five tested human colonic epithelial cell lines, only exposure of Caco-2 to LbGG for 24 hr led to the mobilisation of arachidonic acid with concomitant increase in the components within the leukotriene and COX-2-dependent PGE2 pathways. By contrast, CMFs isolated from the normal human colonic mucosa responded to LbGG with increased expression of COX-2 and PGE2 in the prostaglandin pathway, but not 5-LO in the leukotriene pathway. Oral gavage of C57BL/6 mice for 5 days with LbGG (5 × 108 Colony-Forming Unit (CFU)/dose) increased COX-2 expression in the colonic mucosa. The majority of cells upregulating COX-2 protein expression were located in the colonic lamina propria and colocalised with α-SMA+ cells corresponding to the CMF phenotype. This process was myeloid differentiation factor-88-dependent, because silencing of myeloid differentiation factor-88 expression in CMFs abrogated LbGG-induced upregulation of COX-2 in culture and in vivo. Taken together, our data suggest that LbGG increases release of COX-2-mediated PGE2 , contributing to the maintenance of mucosal homeostasis in the colon and CMFs are among the major contributors to this process.
Published: 2017
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28. Chikungunya Virus–Vector Interactions

Author: Lark L. Coffey, Scott C. Weaver, Anna-Bella Failloux, University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), University of California (UC), Arbovirus et Insectes Vecteurs - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), University of California, and Institut Pasteur [Paris]
Subjects: chikungunya, lcsh:QR1-502, mosquito, Review, adaptation, MESH: Chikungunya Fever, MESH: Insect Vectors, Alphavirus, Disease, medicine.disease_cause, lcsh:Microbiology, Virus, Viral vector, Virology, medicine, Animals, Humans, MESH: Animals, Chikungunya, MESH: Humans, biology, Host (biology), MESH: Host-Pathogen Interactions, transmission, virus diseases, MESH: Chikungunya virus, biology.organism_classification, Insect Vectors, 3. Good health, Culicidae, Infectious Diseases, Vector (epidemiology), Host-Pathogen Interactions, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Chikungunya Fever, Biological dispersal, MESH: Culicidae, Chikungunya virus, vector
Abstract: International audience; Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that causes chikungunya fever, a severe, debilitating disease that often produces chronic arthralgia. Since 2004, CHIKV has emerged in Africa, Indian Ocean islands, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, causing millions of human infections. Central to understanding CHIKV emergence is knowledge of the natural ecology of transmission and vector infection dynamics. This review presents current understanding of CHIKV infection dynamics in mosquito vectors and its relationship to human disease emergence. The following topics are reviewed: CHIKV infection and vector life history traits including transmission cycles, genetic origins, distribution, emergence and spread, dispersal, vector competence, vector immunity and microbial interactions, and co-infection by CHIKV and other arboviruses. The genetics of vector susceptibility and host range changes, population heterogeneity and selection for the fittest viral genomes, dual host cycling and its impact on CHIKV adaptation, viral bottlenecks and intrahost diversity, and adaptive constraints on CHIKV evolution are also discussed. The potential for CHIKV re-emergence and expansion into new areas and prospects for prevention via vector control are also briefly reviewed.
Published: 2014
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29. Implementation of Objective PASC-Derived Taxon Demarcation Criteria for Official Classification of Filoviruses

Author: Janusz T. Paweska, Elke Mühlberger, Jonathan S. Towner, Sina Bavari, Kartik Chandran, Eric M. Leroy, Gary P. Kobinger, Ayato Takada, Olga Dolnik, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Roger Hewson, Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Sophie J. Smither, Christopher F. Basler, Jean L. Patterson, Viktor E. Volchkov, Jens H. Kuhn, Pierre Formenty, Hideki Ebihara, Sergey V. Netesov, John M. Dye, Alexander Bukreyev, Yīmíng Bào, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS)-China Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Georgia State University, University System of Georgia (USG), Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases [USA] (USAMRIID), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Philipps University of Marburg, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rochester [USA], Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Public Health England [Porton Down, Salisbury], Département de Biochimie et Microbiologie, Université Laval, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, Texas], National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (UK) (MOD), Hokkaido University, Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-WHO Collaborative Centre for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center [Frederick], U.S. Social Security Administration, Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Beijing Genomics Institute [Shenzhen] (BGI), Albert Einstein College of Medicine [New York], Public Health England [Salisbury] (PHE), Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, TX], National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg] (NICD), Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity (BMPV), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Philipps Universität Marburg = Philipps University of Marburg, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Letter, marburgvirus, lcsh:QR1-502, lcsh:Microbiology, ICTV, Genus, Software Design, RefSeq, Viral, virus classification, Phylogeny, Genome, Ebolavirus, Cuevavirus, Infectious Diseases, GenBank, Ebola, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Databases, Nucleic Acid, cuevavirus, Sequence Analysis, Algorithms, filovirus, 030106 microbiology, Genome, Viral, Biology, virus taxonomy, 03 medical and health sciences, Databases, Type (biology), Species Specificity, Virology, ebolavirus, Virus classification, Whole genome sequencing, Base Sequence, Nucleic Acid, Whole Genome Sequencing, Genetic Variation, Sequence Analysis, DNA, DNA, biology.organism_classification, Filoviridae, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, 030104 developmental biology, Taxon, Marburgvirus, Evolutionary biology, Mononegavirales
Abstract: The mononegaviral family Filoviridae has eight members assigned to three genera and seven species. Until now, genus and species demarcation were based on arbitrarily chosen filovirus genome sequence divergence values (approximate to 50% for genera, approximate to 30% for species) and arbitrarily chosen phenotypic virus or virion characteristics. Here we report filovirus genome sequence-based taxon demarcation criteria using the publicly accessible PAirwise Sequencing Comparison (PASC) tool of the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (Bethesda, MD, USA). Comparison of all available filovirus genomes in GenBank using PASC revealed optimal genus demarcation at the 55-58% sequence diversity threshold range for genera and at the 23-36% sequence diversity threshold range for species. Because these thresholds do not change the current official filovirus classification, these values are now implemented as filovirus taxon demarcation criteria that may solely be used for filovirus classification in case additional data are absent. A near-complete, coding-complete, or complete filovirus genome sequence will now be required to allow official classification of any novel "filovirus." Classification of filoviruses into existing taxa or determining the need for novel taxa is now straightforward and could even become automated using a presented algorithm/flowchart rooted in RefSeq (type) sequences.
Published: 2017
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30. Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales : update 2017

Author: Andrew J. Easton, Gael Kurath, Jonathan S. Towner, Qi Fang, Calogero Terregino, Noël Tordo, Jean L. Patterson, John H. Werren, John M. Dye, Andrea Maisner, Qisheng Song, Peter J. Walker, Benhur Lee, Pierre Formenty, Richard E. Randall, Ralf Dürrwald, Kim R. Blasdell, Alisa Bochnowski, Bertus K. Rima, Robert A. Lamb, Paul A. Rota, Kartik Chandran, Ralf G. Dietzgen, David M. Stone, Norbert Nowotny, Hideki Kondo, Roger Hewson, Anna E. Whitfield, Janusz T. Paweska, Masayuki Horie, Peter L. Collins, Keizo Tomonaga, Martin Schwemmle, Anthony P. James, Olga Dolnik, Gary P. Kobinger, Beibei Wang, Michael N. Pearson, Nicolás Bejerman, Susan Payne, Ming Li, Jian Hong, Fei Wang, Christopher F. Basler, Robert M. Harding, Jens H. Kuhn, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Charles H. Calisher, Eric M. Leroy, Viktor E. Volchkov, Hideki Ebihara, Lin-Fa Wang, Dàohóng Jiāng, Sina Bavari, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Ayato Takada, Sergey V. Netesov, Elke Mühlberger, Sophie J. Smither, David Wang, Gongyin Ye, Peter Revill, Martin Beer, Colleen M. Higgins, Yīmíng Bào, Robert B. Tesh, Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Thomas Briese, Zhichao Yan, Dennis Rubbenstroth, Elodie Ghedin, Alexander Bukreyev, Nikos Vasilakis, Virology, Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), University of Washington [Seattle], National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Georgia State University, University System of Georgia (USG), Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases [USA] (USAMRIID), Institute of Diagnostic Virology (IVD), Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Albert Einstein College of Medicine [New York], National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda] (NIAID-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), University of Queensland [Brisbane], Philipps University of Marburg, IDT Biologika, School of Life Sciences, Warwick University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rochester [USA], State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Department of Viroscience [Rotterdam, The Netherlands], Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology [New York], New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU)-New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU), Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Queensland University of Technology, Public Health England [Salisbury] (PHE), Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Infections Virales et Pathologie Comparée - UMR 754 (IVPC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, Kagoshima University, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Research Centre in Infectious Diseases, CHUL Research Centre and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval)-Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, US Geological Survey [Seattle], United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), Northwestern University [Evanston], Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Institute for Applied Ecology New Zealand (AENZ), Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Novosibirsk State University (NSU), University of Veterinary Medicine [Vienna] (Vetmeduni), Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, TX], Texas A&M University System, National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg] (NICD), University of Auckland [Auckland], Biomedical Sciences Research Complex [St Andrews, Scotland] (BSRC), University of St Andrews [Scotland], Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), University of Freiburg [Freiburg], Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (UK) (MOD), University of Missouri School of Medicine, University of Missouri System, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [Weymouth] (CEFAS), Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University [Kyoto], Stratégies antivirales, Institut Pasteur [Paris], Institut Pasteur de Guinée, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-WHO Collaborative Centre for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity (BMPV), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center [Frederick], U.S. Social Security Administration, CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Ecoscience Precinct, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Duke-NUS Medical School [Singapore], Department of Biology, Kansas State University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland (UQ), Public Health England [Porton Down, Salisbury], Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Faculty of Medicine-Laval University [Québec], Okayama University [Okayama], Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Institute for Applied Ecology New Zealand, Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, Texas], A&M University, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), The University of Auckland, Centre for Experimental Medicine [Queen’s University of Belfast], Hokkaido University, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Duke NUS Medical School, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Columbia University [New York], Philipps Universität Marburg = Philipps University of Marburg, University of Warwick [Coventry], Queensland University of Technology [Brisbane] (QUT), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Huazhong Agricultural University [Wuhan] (HZAU), Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory [Melbourne, Australia] (VIDRL), Kyoto University, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Biomedical Sciences Research Complex
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, 030106 microbiology, Genome, Viral, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Species Specificity, Genus, Phylogenetics, Virology, Gene Order, Viral, Mononegavirales, Phylogeny, Order Mononegavirales, Genome, biology, General Medicine, Pneumovirus, biology.organism_classification, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, 030104 developmental biology, Evolutionary biology, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Taxonomy (biology)
Abstract: International audience; In 2017, the order Mononegavirales was expanded by the inclusion of a total of 69 novel species. Five new rhabdovirus genera and one new nyamivirus genus were established to harbor 41 of these species, whereas the remaining new species were assigned to already established genera. Furthermore, non-Latinized binomial species names replaced all paramyxovirus and pneumovirus species names, thereby accomplishing application of binomial species names throughout the entire order. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).
Published: 2017
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31. Schizosaccharomyces pombe kinesin-5 switches direction using a steric blocking mechanism

Author: Carolyn A. Moores, Robert A. Cross, Syeda Rizvi, Mishan Britto, Ottilie von Loeffelholz, Adeline Goulet, Architecture et fonction des macromolécules biologiques (AFMB), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Birkbeck College [University of London], and The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Stereochemistry, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Dynein, Kinesins, Mitosis, bcs, Microtubules, Motor protein, 03 medical and health sciences, Protein Domains, Microtubule, Chromosome Segregation, Schizosaccharomyces, Multidisciplinary, Binding Sites, biology, Microtubule sliding, biology.organism_classification, 030104 developmental biology, PNAS Plus, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Biophysics, Kinesin, Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Binding domain
Abstract: International audience; Cut7, the sole kinesin-5 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe , is essential for mitosis. Like other yeast kinesin-5 motors, Cut7 can reverse its stepping direction, by mechanisms that are currently unclear. Here we show that for full-length Cut7, the key determinant of stepping direction is the degree of motor crowding on the microtubule lattice, with greater crowding converting the motor from minus end-directed to plus end-directed stepping. To explain how high Cut7 occupancy causes this reversal, we postulate a simple proximity sensing mechanism that operates via steric blocking. We propose that the minus end-directed stepping action of Cut7 is selectively inhibited by collisions with neighbors under crowded conditions, whereas its plus end-directed action, being less space-hungry, is not. In support of this idea, we show that the direction of Cut7-driven microtubule sliding can be reversed by crowding it with non-Cut7 proteins. Thus, crowding by either dynein microtubule binding domain or Klp2, a kinesin-14, converts Cut7 from net minus end-directed to net plus end-directed stepping. Biochemical assays confirm that the Cut7 N terminus increases Cut7 occupancy by binding directly to microtubules. Direct observation by cryoEM reveals that this occupancy-enhancing N-terminal domain is partially ordered. Overall, our data point to a steric blocking mechanism for directional reversal through which collisions of Cut7 motor domains with their neighbors inhibit their minus end-directed stepping action, but not their plus end-directed stepping action. Our model can potentially reconcile a number of previous, apparently conflicting, observations and proposals for the reversal mechanism of yeast kinesins-5.
Published: 2016
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32. Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016

Author: Ralf Dürrwald, Krisztián Bányai, Robert A. Lamb, Hideki Kondo, Alexander Bukreyev, Anna N. Clawson, Calogero Terregino, Robert B. Tesh, Andrew J. Easton, Andrea Maisner, Paul A. Rota, Gael Kurath, Kartik Chandran, Charles H. Calisher, Ralf G. Dietzgen, Janusz T. Paweska, Szilvia Marton, Dennis Rubbenstroth, Masayuki Horie, Juliana Freitas-Astúa, Bertus K. Rima, Jonathan S. Towner, Viktor E. Volchkov, Eric M. Leroy, David M. Stone, Susan Payne, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Hideki Ebihara, Lin-Fa Wang, Lìjiāng Liú, C. Li, Nikos Vasilakis, Olga Dolnik, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Gary P. Kobinger, Jean L. Patterson, Sergio Lenardon, Xian Dan Lin, Leslie L. Domier, Mang Shi, Pierre Formenty, Ben Longdon, Anna E. Whitfield, Sina Bavari, Timothy H. Hyndman, Martin Verbeek, E. W. Kitajima, Elke Mühlberger, Peter J. Walker, Ayato Takada, Mark D. Stenglein, François Xavier Briand, David Wang, Elodie Ghedin, Jiāsēn Chéng, Keizo Tomonaga, Norbert Nowotny, Roger Hewson, Noël Tordo, Jun Hua Tian, Nicolás Bejerman, John M. Dye, Christopher F. Basler, Yong-Zhen Zhang, Kim R. Blasdell, Yanping Fu, Sophie J. Smither, Richard E. Randall, Jens H. Kuhn, Jiǎtāo Xiè, Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Thierry Wetzel, Martin Schwemmle, Michael M. Goodin, John A. Walsh, Thomas Briese, Yīmíng Bào, Peter L. Collins, Dàohóng Jiāng, Sergey V. Netesov, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Szilvia L. Farkas, Claudio L. Afonso, US Department of Agriculture, Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), University of Washington [Seattle], Centre for Agricultural Research [Budapest] (ATK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Georgia State University, University System of Georgia (USG), Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases [USA] (USAMRIID), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Laboratoire de Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort [ANSES], Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES), Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University System, Albert Einstein College of Medicine [New York], Huazhong Agricultural University, Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda] (NIAID-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation - Centre for Animal Science, University of Queensland [Brisbane], Philipps University of Marburg, University of Illinois [Chicago] (UIC), University of Illinois System, IDT Biologika, School of Life Sciences, Warwick University, Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, LABOKLIN, Embrapa Cassava and Fruits, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Department of Viroscience [Rotterdam, The Netherlands], Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology [New York], New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU)-New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU), Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, University of Kentucky, Public Health England [Salisbury] (PHE), Kagoshima University, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences [Murdoch], Murdoch University, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Escola Superior de Agricultura 'Luiz de Queiroz' (ESALQ), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Research Centre in Infectious Diseases, CHUL Research Centre and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval)-Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, US Geological Survey [Seattle], United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), Northwestern University [Evanston], Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease prevention and Control, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Wēnzhōu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Genetics University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Novosibirsk State University (NSU), University of Veterinary Medicine [Vienna] (Vetmeduni), Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, TX], College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg] (NICD), Biomedical Sciences Research Complex [St Andrews, Scotland] (BSRC), University of St Andrews [Scotland], Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), University of Freiburg [Freiburg], Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (UK) (MOD), Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [Weymouth] (CEFAS), Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Wǔhàn Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University [Kyoto], Stratégies antivirales, Institut Pasteur [Paris], Institut Pasteur de Guinée, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-WHO Collaborative Centre for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity (BMPV), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center [Frederick], U.S. Social Security Administration, CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Departments of Molecular Microbiology and Pathology & Immunology, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Ecoscience Precinct, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Duke-NUS Medical School [Singapore], Kansas State University, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases & Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)-Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses) - Veterinary epidemiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Public Health England [Porton Down, Salisbury], Faculty of Medicine-Laval University [Québec], Okayama University [Okayama], Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, Texas], A&M University, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Centre for Experimental Medicine [Queen’s University of Belfast], Hokkaido University, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie [Padova], Wageningen University and Research Centre [Wageningen] (WUR), Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity, Duke NUS Medical School, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Columbia University [New York], Huazhong Agricultural University [Wuhan] (HZAU), Philipps Universität Marburg = Philipps University of Marburg, University of Warwick [Coventry], University of Kentucky (UK), Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), Kyoto University, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Virology, and Biomedical Sciences Research Complex
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, 030106 microbiology, Zoology, Genome, Viral, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Genus, Phylogenetics, Virology, Crustavirus, Life Science, Viral, Mononegavirales, Phylogeny, Order Mononegavirales, QR355, Genome, biology, Entomology & Disease Management, General Medicine, biology.organism_classification, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, Pneumoviridae, Subfamily Pneumovirinae, MONONEGAVIRALES, 030104 developmental biology, Evolutionary biology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Taxonomy (biology), RA, RC
Abstract: International audience; In 2016, the order Mononegavirales was emended through the addition of two new families (Mymonaviridae and Sunviridae), the elevation of the paramyxoviral subfamily Pneumovirinae to family status (Pneumoviridae), the addition of five free-floating genera (Anphevirus, Arlivirus, Chengtivirus, Crustavirus, and Wastrivirus), and several other changes at the genus and species levels. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).
Published: 2016
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33. ISG15 deficiency and increased viral resistance in humans but not mice

Author: Zhi Li, Benhur Lee, Ilhan Tezcan, Payam Tabarsi, Sofija Buta, Nahal Mansouri, Frederic Vigant, Domenico Tortorella, James Duehr, Béatrice Payelle-Brogard, Sandra Pellegrini, Li Qian, Scott D. Speer, Véronique Francois-Newton, Davood Mansouri, Jacob Piehler, Alexander N. Freiberg, Mark Hermann, Thomas J. Gardner, Marisela R. Rodriguez, Ozden Sanal, Tim Wedeking, Adolfo García-Sastre, Coralie F. Daussy, Deborah J. Lenschow, Erminia Rubino, Dusan Bogunovic, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), Signalisation des Cytokines, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Osnabrück University, Hacettepe University = Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences [Tehran] (SBUMS), Shahid Beheshti University, University of Washington School of Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), This was supported in part by NIH grant R00 AI106942-02 to D.B., NIH grant R01 AI101820 to D.T., an American Heart Association pre-doctoral fellowship and a USPHS Institutional Research Training Award T32-AI07647 to T.J.G., NRSA T32 AR07279-30 to M.R.R., NIH grant RO1 A1080672 and Pew Scholar Award to D.J.L., funding by the DFG (SFB 944) to J.P., NIH grant R33 AI102267 to A.N.F. and B.L., CRIP (Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis), and NIAID funded Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (contract #HHSN272201400008C) to AGS. Experimental support was provided by the Speed Congenics Facility of the Rheumatic Disease Core Center (P30 AR048335). Work in the Cytokine Signaling Unit was supported by Institut Pasteur, CNRS, INSERM and an Amgen Scholarship to E.R., Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Universität Osnabrück - Osnabrück University
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Animals, Cell Line, Cytokines/genetics, Cytokines/immunology, Cytokines/metabolism, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Interferons/metabolism, Mice, Primary Cell Culture, Ubiquitin Thiolesterase/metabolism, Ubiquitins/genetics, Ubiquitins/immunology, Ubiquitins/metabolism, Virus Diseases/immunology, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, Biology, Viral resistance, Viral infection, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, MESH: Primary Cell Culture, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Ubiquitins, MESH: Animals, MESH: Interferons, MESH: Mice, Ubiquitins, MESH: Cytokines, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Multidisciplinary, MESH: Humans, General Chemistry, MESH: Ubiquitin Thiolesterase, ISG15, Virology, MESH: Gene Expression Regulation, 3. Good health, MESH: Cell Line, MESH: Virus Diseases, 030104 developmental biology, Virus Diseases, Immunology, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Cytokines, Interferons, MESH: Female, Ubiquitin Thiolesterase
Abstract: ISG15 is an interferon (IFN)-α/β-induced ubiquitin-like protein. It exists as a free molecule, intracellularly and extracellularly, and conjugated to target proteins. Studies in mice have demonstrated a role for Isg15 in antiviral immunity. By contrast, human ISG15 was shown to have critical immune functions, but not in antiviral immunity. Namely, free extracellular ISG15 is crucial in IFN-γ-dependent antimycobacterial immunity, while free intracellular ISG15 is crucial for USP18-mediated downregulation of IFN-α/β signalling. Here we describe ISG15-deficient patients who display no enhanced susceptibility to viruses in vivo, in stark contrast to Isg15-deficient mice. Furthermore, fibroblasts derived from ISG15-deficient patients display enhanced antiviral protection, and expression of ISG15 attenuates viral resistance to WT control levels. The species-specific gain-of-function in antiviral immunity observed in ISG15 deficiency is explained by the requirement of ISG15 to sustain USP18 levels in humans, a mechanism not operating in mice., ISG15 is a ubiquitin-like protein which has important immune-related functions in mice and humans. Here the authors demonstrate that, unlike in mice, human ISG15 stabilizes UPS18 and that ISG15-deficient human cells are more resistant to viral infection.
Published: 2016
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34. Data publication with the structural biology data grid supports live analysis

Author: Emil F. Pai, Qing R. Fan, Yousif Shamoo, Kevin D. Corbett, Dominika Borek, Tom Kirchhausen, James S. Fraser, Elizabeth Ransey, Stephanie M. Socias, Peter A. Meyer, Enrico Di Cera, Oleg V. Tsodikov, Jason S. McLellan, C. S. Raman, James Withrow, Mercè Crosas, Karen S. Anderson, Carlo Petosa, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Gabrielle Rudenko, Yorgo Modis, Peng Gong, Walter J. Chazin, Zongchao Jia, Zbyszek Otwinowski, Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré, Yunsun Nam, Stephen C. Harrison, Sirano Dhe-Paganon, Joseph Schlessinger, Catherine L. Drennan, Kenneth D. Westover, Holger Sondermann, Richard H. G. Baxter, Marc Kvansakul, Ekaterina E. Heldwein, J. Christopher Fromme, Sean Crosson, Michael K. Rosen, Antonina Roll-Mecak, Robert J. Keenan, Tamir Gonen, Andrew C. Kruse, Ian Foster, Kanagalaghatta R. Rajashankar, Titus J. Boggon, Ming Lei, K. Christopher Garcia, Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin, Michael S. Cosgrove, Amedeo Caflisch, Michael J. Eck, Brandt F. Eichman, Thomas U. Schwartz, Chung-I Chang, Rachelle Gaudet, Yizhi Jane Tao, Emily C. Tjon, Pedro Pereira, Jason Key, David B. Neau, Stephen C. Blacklow, Kay Diederichs, Hao Wu, Tom A. Rapoport, Alejandro Buschiazzo, Tom J. Brett, Piotr Sliz, Chris Botka, Niraj H. Tolia, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology [Boston] (DBCMP), Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS), Laboratory of molecular and structural microbiology, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), NE-CAT and department of chemistry and chemical biology [Argonne], Cornell University, Departments of pharmacology and molecular biophysics and biochemistry [New Haven], Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry [New Haven], Yale University [New Haven], Bijovet center [Utrecht], Utrecht University [Utrecht], Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry [Dallas], University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center [Dallas], Department of Internal Medicine [St Louis], Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry [Zurich], University of Zürich [Zürich] (UZH), Institute of Biological Chemistry (IBC Sinica), Academia Sinica, Departments of biochemistry and chemistry [Nashville], Vanderbilt University [Nashville], Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California, SUNY Upstate Medical University, State University of New York (SUNY), University of Chicago, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute [Boston], Saint Louis University School of Medicine [St Louis], Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (DBCMP), Columbia University [New York], National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [Bethesda] (NHLBI), Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute [Stanford], Stanford University School of Medicine [CA, USA], Harvard University [Cambridge], Wuhan Institute of Virology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute [Boston], Tufts University School of Medicine [Boston], Queen's University [Kingston], La Trobe University [Melbourne], Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), University of Texas at Dallas [Richardson] (UT Dallas), Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Institut de biologie structurale (IBS - UMR 5075), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Maryland [Baltimore County] (UMBC), University of Maryland System, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [Bethesda] (NINDS), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Rice University [Houston], University of Washington School of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, University of California [San Francisco] (UCSF), Uppsala University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Howard Hughes Medical Institute [Ashburn], Fachbereich Biologie, University of Konstanz, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Development of the Structural Biology Data Grid is funded by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust 2016PG-BRI002 to PS and MC. Development of citation workflows is supported NSF 1448069 (to PS). DAA is being developed as a pilot project of the National Data Service, with additional funds to support storage and technology development, including NIH P41 GM103403 (NE-CAT) and 1S10RR028832 (HMS) and DOE DE-AC02-06CH11357, NIH 1U54EB020406-01, Big Data for Discovery Science Center, and NIST 60NANB15D077 (Globus Project), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry, Drennan, Catherine L., Schwartz, Thomas, Sub NMR Spectroscopy, NMR Spectroscopy, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Molecular and structural microbiology / Microbiología Molecular y Estructural [Montevideo], Cornell University [New York], Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Queen's University [Kingston, Canada], Institut de biologie structurale (IBS - UMR 5075 ), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Zurich, Sliz, Piotr, Yale School of Medicine [New Haven, Connecticut] (YSM), University of California (UC), Harvard University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), University of Kentucky (UK), University of California [San Francisco] (UC San Francisco), Harrison, Seamus Conor [0000-0003-1480-1143], Modis, Yorgo [0000-0002-6084-0429], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Chemistry(all), Experiences, General Physics and Astronomy, computer.software_genre, Crystallography, X-Ray, Biochemistry, Software, Structural Biology, Databases, Genetic, Structure models, Macromolecular crystallography, media_common, Strukturbiologi, Uncategorized, Multidisciplinary, Crystallography, Data grid, [SDV.BBM.BS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Structural Biology [q-bio.BM], Publications, X-ray scattering, 1.5 Resources and infrastructure (underpinning), 3100 General Physics and Astronomy, [SDV.BBM.BS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biomolecules [q-bio.BM], Networking and Information Technology R&D, Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD), The Internet, Data mining, Macromolecular Substances, media_common.quotation_subject, Science, 610 Medicine & health, 1600 General Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Astronomy(all), General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Synchrotron, 03 medical and health sciences, Databases, Genetic, Underpinning research, 1300 General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, ddc:570, 10019 Department of Biochemistry, Quality (business), Internet, business.industry, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Data quality, Experimental data, General Chemistry, Data science, 030104 developmental biology, Data access, Protein data-bank, Paradigm shift, X-Ray, 570 Life sciences, biology, Resolution, business, computer, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Abstract: Access to experimental X-ray diffraction image data is fundamental for validation and reproduction of macromolecular models and indispensable for development of structural biology processing methods. Here, we established a diffraction data publication and dissemination system, Structural Biology Data Grid (SBDG; data.sbgrid.org), to preserve primary experimental data sets that support scientific publications. Data sets are accessible to researchers through a community driven data grid, which facilitates global data access. Our analysis of a pilot collection of crystallographic data sets demonstrates that the information archived by SBDG is sufficient to reprocess data to statistics that meet or exceed the quality of the original published structures. SBDG has extended its services to the entire community and is used to develop support for other types of biomedical data sets. It is anticipated that access to the experimental data sets will enhance the paradigm shift in the community towards a much more dynamic body of continuously improving data analysis., The validation and analysis of X-ray crystallographic data is essential for reproducibility and the development of crystallographic methods. Here, the authors describe a repository for crystallographic datasets and demonstrate some of the ways it could serve the crystallographic community.
Published: 2016
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35. Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis from the Chikungunya Virus Caribbean Outbreak Reveals Novel Evolutionary Genomic Elements

Author: Marco Vignuzzi, Magnus Fontes, Bryan C. Mounce, Ofer Isakov, Rubing Chen, Gonzalo Moratorio, Antoine Enfissi, Hervé Blanc, Kenneth A. Stapleford, Séverine Matheus, Rasmus Henningsson, Daphna Weissglas-Volkov, Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol, Dominique Rousset, Scott C. Weaver, Noam Shomron, Populations virales et Pathogenèse - Viral Populations and Pathogenesis, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), International Group for Data Analysis (IGDA), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University (TAU), Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, This work was supported by a Institut Pasteur Programme Transversal de Recherche PTR 489 grant, the French Government ’s Investissementd’Avenir program, Laboratoire d ’Excellence' Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases ' grant ANR-10-LABX-62-IBEID) and a ' Equipe FRM DEQ20150331759 ' grant from the French Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (KAS, MV). RC and SCW were supported by National institutes of Health Contract HHSN272201000040I/HHSN27200004/D04, and by the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity at the University of Texas Medical Branch. DWV was supported by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics and the Center for Nanoscience and nanotechnology at Tel-Aviv University., ANR-10-LABX-0062,IBEID,Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases(2010), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Tel Aviv University [Tel Aviv], Stapleford K.A., Moratorio Gonzalo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias. Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares. Instituto Pasteur, Henningsson R., Chen R., Matheus S., Enfissi A., Weissglas-Volkov D., Isakov O., Blanc H., Mounce B.C, Dupont-Rouzeyrol M., Shomron N., Weaver S., Fontes M., Rousset D., Vignuzz M., Calvez, Elodie, and Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases - - IBEID2010 - ANR-10-LABX-0062 - LABX - VALID
Subjects: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Infographics, Geographical locations, Disease Outbreaks, Togaviridae, MESH: Genetic Variation, Chikungunya, MESH: Phylogeny, Phylogeny, education.field_of_study, MESH: Genomics, virus diseases, Phylogenetic Analysis, Genomics, Virus, 3. Good health, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Caribbean Region, Medical Microbiology, Viral Pathogens, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, MESH: Caribbean Region, lcsh:RC955-962, Alphaviruses, 030106 microbiology, Molecular Sequence Data, Alphavirus, Viral quasispecies, Microbiology, Evolution, Molecular, 03 medical and health sciences, Humans, education, Molecular Biology Techniques, [SDV.MP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Microbial Pathogens, Molecular Biology, Caribbean, Molecular Biology Assays and Analysis Techniques, MESH: Humans, MESH: Molecular Sequence Data, Data Visualization, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organisms, Outbreak, Chikungunya Infection, Genetic Variation, MESH: Chikungunya virus, lcsh:RA1-1270, Virology, 030104 developmental biology, People and places, Cloning, 0301 basic medicine, RNA viruses, MESH: Sequence Analysis, DNA, Viral Diseases, viruses, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], MESH: Chikungunya Fever, medicine.disease_cause, Medicine and Health Sciences, MESH: Disease Outbreaks, MESH: Evolution, Molecular, [SDV.MP.VIR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Chikungunya Virus, biology, lcsh:Public aspects of medicine, Infectious Diseases, Viral evolution, Viruses, MESH: Genome, Viral, Pathogens, Martinique, Sequence Analysis, Graphs, Research Article, Computer and Information Sciences, lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, Population, Genome, Viral, Research and Analysis Methods, Viral Evolution, Togaviruses, medicine, Sequencing Techniques, Evolutionary Biology, Biology and life sciences, Sequence Analysis, DNA, biology.organism_classification, Genética, Organismal Evolution, North America, Microbial Evolution, Chikungunya Fever, Sequence Alignment
Abstract: Background Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus and member of the Togaviridae family, is capable of causing severe febrile disease in humans. In December of 2013 the Asian Lineage of CHIKV spread from the Old World to the Americas, spreading rapidly throughout the New World. Given this new emergence in naïve populations we studied the viral genetic diversity present in infected individuals to understand how CHIKV may have evolved during this continuing outbreak. Methodology/Principle Findings We used deep-sequencing technologies coupled with well-established bioinformatics pipelines to characterize the minority variants and diversity present in CHIKV infected individuals from Guadeloupe and Martinique, two islands in the center of the epidemic. We observed changes in the consensus sequence as well as a diverse range of minority variants present at various levels in the population. Furthermore, we found that overall diversity was dramatically reduced after single passages in cell lines. Finally, we constructed an infectious clone from this outbreak and identified a novel 3’ untranslated region (UTR) structure, not previously found in nature, that led to increased replication in insect cells. Conclusions/Significance Here we preformed an intrahost quasispecies analysis of the new CHIKV outbreak in the Caribbean. We identified novel variants present in infected individuals, as well as a new 3’UTR structure, suggesting that CHIKV has rapidly evolved in a short period of time once it entered this naïve population. These studies highlight the need to continue viral diversity surveillance over time as this epidemic evolves in order to understand the evolutionary potential of CHIKV., Author Summary Chikungunya virus is a re-emerging and rapidly spreading arbovirus that has caused several outbreaks in the last decade with the most recent in the Caribbean islands and the Americas beginning in 2013 infecting over 1 million individuals. The ability to monitor such epidemics would be enhanced by characterizing the viral populations that circulate within infected individuals. To do this, we deep-sequenced viral populations from infected individuals and identified minority variants present at high frequencies, as well as the presence of a novel 3’ untranslated genome region (UTR) structure, a key determinant of chikungunya virus infectivity and evolution never before described in nature. Finally, we genetically engineered an infectious clone from this outbreak strain and established that the novel 3’UTR structure increases viral replication in mosquito cells. Taken together these studies highlight the vast diversity of viral populations in infected individuals, reveal potential novel determinants of chikungunya virus biology, and provide an indispensable tool for future studies involved in viral evolution and adaptation.
Published: 2016
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36. Chikungunya Virus and the Global Spread of a Mosquito-Borne Disease

Author: Marc Lecuit, Scott C. Weaver, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Global Virus Network, Biologie des Infections - Biology of Infection, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Service des Maladies infectieuses et tropicales [CHU Necker], Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP]-Institut des Maladies Génétiques Imagine [Paris], Institut des Maladies Génétiques Imagine [Paris], We thank Therese Couderc, the members of the Biology of Infection Unit, and the members of the Chikungunya Task Force at Institut Pasteur, and Rose Langsjoen for assistance with graphics., University of South Florida [Tampa] (USF), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU) (Imagine - U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP)
Subjects: musculoskeletal diseases, myalgia, viruses, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], 030231 tropical medicine, Disease, Alphavirus, MESH: Chikungunya Fever, MESH: Insect Vectors, medicine.disease_cause, Virus, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, parasitic diseases, medicine, MESH: Animals, Chikungunya, MESH: Disease Outbreaks, MESH: Travel, 030304 developmental biology, Mosquito-borne disease, 0303 health sciences, [SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases, MESH: Humans, biology, business.industry, virus diseases, MESH: Chikungunya virus, General Medicine, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Virology, Rash, 3. Good health, body regions, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Chikungunya Virus Infection, Immunology, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, MESH: Disease Progression, medicine.symptom, business, MESH: Culicidae, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology
Abstract: Comment in Chikungunya Virus Infections. [N Engl J Med. 2015] Chikungunya Virus Infections. [N Engl J Med. 2015] Chikungunya Virus Infections. [N Engl J Med. 2015]; International audience; Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne alphavirus; its name comes from a Makonde word describing the bent posture of persons with the severe arthralgia that is a hallmark of chikungunya fever, the disease caused by the virus.1 Chikungunya virus was first isolated after a 1952–1953 epidemic in present-day Tanzania. Outbreaks were subsequently identified in Asia during the 1950s and 1960s [...]
Published: 2015
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37. Lack of evidence for Zika virus transmission by Culex mosquitoes

Author: Scott C. Weaver, Scott A. Ritchie, Aaron C. Brault, Nikos Vasilakis, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Gregory D. Ebel, Laura Beatriz Tauro, Jorge E. Osorio, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, Laura D. Kramer, Christopher M. Roundy, Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Paploski, Uriel Kitron, Ildefonso Fernández-Salas, Sasha R. Azar, Anna-Bella Failloux, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Arbovirus et Insectes Vecteurs - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur [Paris], Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública = Regional Centre of Research in Public Health [Tapachula, Mexique] (CRISP), National Institute of Public Health = Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública [Cuernavaca, Mexique] (INSP), Emory University [Atlanta, GA], Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health [Albany], Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), James Cook University (JCU), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Epidemiology, Culex, 030231 tropical medicine, Immunology, Microbiology, Zika virus, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Aedes, law, Virology, parasitic diseases, Drug Discovery, Animals, Humans, Letter to the Editor, biology, Zika Virus Infection, fungi, Zika Virus, General Medicine, biology.organism_classification, Insect Vectors, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, Infectious Diseases, Transmission (mechanics), [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Parasitology
Abstract: Response to: ‘Lack of evidence for Zika virus transmission by Culex mosquitoes’https://www.nature.com/articles/emi201786doi:10.1038/emi.2017.86; International audience; LETTER TO THE EDITORDear Editor,Since Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged in the Americas, major research efforts have been focused on identifying the mosquito species responsible for transmission. [...]
Published: 2017
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38. Down-regulation of the Tumor Suppressor PTEN by the Tumor Necrosis Factor-α/Nuclear Factor-κB (NF-κB)-inducing Kinase/NF-κB Pathway Is Linked to a Default IκB-α Autoregulatory Loop

Author: B. Mark Evers, Claire Domon-Dell, Dai H. Chung, Sunghoon Kim, Jean-Noël Freund, Junghee Kang, univOAK, Archive ouverte, University of California [San Francisco] (UC San Francisco), University of California (UC), Ontogénèse et pathologie du système digestif : rôle du microenvironnement cellulaire et moléculaire, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Subjects: Tumor suppressor gene, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Cell migration, NF-κB, Cell Biology, Biology, Biochemistry, chemistry.chemical_compound, [SDV.CAN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, chemistry, biology.protein, Cancer research, Tensin, PTEN, Signal transduction, Molecular Biology, Protein kinase B, PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway
Abstract: International audience; The PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten) tumor suppressor gene affects multiple cellular processes including cell growth, proliferation, and cell migration by antagonizing phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K). However, mechanisms by which PTEN expression is regulated have not been studied extensively. Similar to PTEN, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) affects a wide spectrum of diseases including inflammatory processes and cancer by acting as a mediator of apoptosis, inflammation, and immunity. In this study, we show that treatment of cancer cell lines with TNF-alpha decreases PTEN expression. In addition, overexpression of TNF-alpha downstream signaling targets, nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB)-inducing kinase (NIK) and p65 nuclear factor NF-kappaB, lowers PTEN expression, suggesting that TNF-alpha-induced down-regulation of PTEN is mediated through a TNF-alpha/NIK/NF-kappaB pathway. Down-regulation of PTEN by NIK/NF-kappaB results in activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway and augmentation of TNF-alpha-induced PI3K/Akt stimulation. Importantly, we demonstrate that this effect is associated with a lack of an inhibitor of kappaB (IkappaB)-alpha autoregulatory loop. Moreover, these findings suggest the interaction between PI3K/Akt and NF-kappaB via transcriptional regulation of PTEN and offer one possible explanation for increased tumorigenesis in systems in which NF-kappaB is chronically activated. In such a tumor system, these findings suggest a positive feedback loop whereby Akt activation of NF-kappaB further stimulates Akt via down-regulation of the PI3K inhibitor PTEN.
Published: 2004
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39. In memoriam--Richard M. Elliott (1954-2015)

Author: Ian Goodfellow, John McLauchlan, Chris Boutell, Stuart T. Nichol, Ralf G. Dietzgen, James C. Neil, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos, Janet M. Daly, Geoffrey L. Smith, Friedemann Weber, Pablo R. Murcia, Mark Harris, Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes, Hideki Ebihara, Frederick A. Murphy, Brian J. Willett, Margaret J Hosie, John K. Fazakerley, Stephen Higgs, W. Paul Duprex, Benjamin Brennan, John Steel, Dana L. Vanlandingham, Angelina Plyusnina, Arvind H. Patel, Richard Kormelink, Robert A. Lamb, Massimo Palmarini, Bernadette M. Dutia, Alain Kohl, J. Stephen Lodmell, Scott C. Weaver, Anna-Bella Failloux, Reay G. Paterson, Peter Palese, Charles M. Rice, Anthony R. Fooks, Richard E. Randall, John N. Barr, Anice C. Lowen, Alexander Plyusnin, Noël Tordo, Stacey Efstathiou, Robert B. Tesh, Hanu R. Pappu, Michèle Bouloy, Roger Hewson, Robert G. Dalziel, Esther Schnettler, Adolfo García-Sastre, Sara Cherry, Diane E. Ullman, Rennos Fragkoudis, Centre for Virus Research, MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Institute for Medical Virology [Gießen], Laboratory of Virology [Wageningen], Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Arbovirus et Insectes Vecteurs - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), The Pirbright Institute, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), University of Leeds, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), University of Edinburgh, Emory University [Atlanta, GA], University of St Andrews [Scotland], Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease [New York], Rockefeller University [New York], Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research [Hamilton], National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (NIAID), Laboratorio de Arbovirus, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Animal and Plant Health Agency [Weybridge] (APHA), Division of Virology, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Washington State University (WSU), Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University [Evanston], Biosecurity Research Institute, Kansas State University, Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Queensland [Brisbane], Division of Biological Sciences [Missoula], University of Montana, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Atlanta] (CDC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science [Leicestershire], University of Nottingham, UK (UON), Department of Entomology [Riverside], University of California [Riverside] (UC Riverside), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Public Health England [London], Centre collaborateur de l'OMS Arbovirus et Fièvres Hémorragiques virales - Stratégies antivirales (CC-OMS), University of Pennsylvania, Institut Pasteur [Paris], Institute for Animal Health, the Pirbright Institute, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, University of California [Riverside] (UCR), University of California-University of California, University of Helsinki, and University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia]
Subjects: MESH: United Kingdom, Bunyaviridae, Laboratory of Virology, Bunyaviridae Infections, Biology, History, 21st Century, Laboratorium voor Virologie, MESH: Bunyaviridae Infections, Portrait, Virology, Humans, Life Science, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, MESH: Bunyaviridae, MESH: Humans, Historical Article, Biography, History, 20th Century, biology.organism_classification, Obituary, United Kingdom, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, MESH: History, 20th Century, EPS, MESH: History, 21st Century, MESH: Virology
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2015
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40. ISG15 is critical in the control of Chikungunya virus infection independent of UbE1L mediated conjugation

Author: Clémentine Schilte, Stephen Higgs, Matthew L. Albert, Alain Michault, Kristen Monte, Dana L. Vanlandingham, Deborah J. Lenschow, Arnaud Fontanet, Scott W. Werneke, Fernando Arenzana-Seisdedos, Anjali Rohatgi, Washington University School of Medicine, University of Washington [Seattle], Immunobiologie des Cellules Dendritiques, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de La Réunion (CHU La Réunion), Pathogénie Virale Moléculaire, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Kansas State University, Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes - Emerging Diseases Epidemiology, Pasteur-Cnam Risques infectieux et émergents (PACRI), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM)-Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM), D.J.L. was supported by a developmental award from NIH grant U54 AI05716007, a Pew Scholar Award, and an award from the Children's Discovery Institute. S.W. was supported by T32 AI00717231. M.L.A. acknowledges the L'Agence nationale de la recherché (ANR) for support of the research. Washington University Hybridoma Core facility and transgenic core facility was supported by NIH P30 AR048335. D.V. and S.H were in part supported by NIH AI R21 AI073389., We thank the Centre d'Immunologie Humaine and the CHIKV Task Force from the Institut Pasteur for support of this work and access to critical reagents. We also acknowledge Olivier Schwartz for helpful suggestions and for the careful review of the manuscript. We thank Kristen Monte and Charlotte Auriau for their outstanding expertise in animal care, and Stéphanie Thomas for support in sample transportation and filing of regulatory procedures., Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM), HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM), HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM), and Vougny, Marie-Christine
Subjects: Ubiquitin-Activating Enzymes, MESH: Chikungunya Fever, MESH: Chikungunya virus/physiology, medicine.disease_cause, Mouse models, MESH: Animals, Newborn, Mice, MESH: Alphavirus Infections/diagnosis, Viral load, Conjugated proteins, MESH: Animals, Chikungunya, MESH: Cytokines/immunology, lcsh:QH301-705.5, Recombination, Genetic, 0303 health sciences, virus diseases, MESH: Alphavirus Infections/immunology, 3. Good health, Interferon Type I, Medicine, Cytokines, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, MESH: Recombination, Genetic, Chikungunya infection, Chikungunya virus, medicine.drug, Research Article, Protein Binding, lcsh:Immunologic diseases. Allergy, [SDV.IMM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, MESH: Ubiquitins/immunology, Immunology, MESH: Chikungunya virus/pathogenicity, Biology, Microbiology, Virus, Proinflammatory cytokine, MESH: Interferon Type I/immunology, 03 medical and health sciences, Immune system, MESH: Mice, Inbred C57BL, Virology, MESH: Interferon Type I/metabolism, MESH: Ubiquitins/metabolism, Genetics, medicine, Animals, Humans, MESH: Protein Binding, Alphavirus infection, Immune response, Molecular Biology, Ubiquitins, MESH: Mice, 030304 developmental biology, Retrospective Studies, MESH: Ubiquitin-Activating Enzymes/immunology, Innate immune system, MESH: Humans, 030306 microbiology, Alphavirus Infections, Neonates, MESH: Retrospective Studies, MESH: Ubiquitin-Activating Enzymes/metabolism, medicine.disease, Mice, Inbred C57BL, MESH: Alphavirus Infections/metabolism, Disease Models, Animal, Animals, Newborn, lcsh:Biology (General), Chikungunya Fever, Parasitology, Interferons, MESH: Disease Models, Animal, MESH: Cytokines/metabolism, lcsh:RC581-607, Interferon type I
Abstract: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging alphavirus that has caused significant disease in the Indian Ocean region since 2005. During this outbreak, in addition to fever, rash and arthritis, severe cases of CHIKV infection have been observed in infants. Challenging the notion that the innate immune response in infants is immature or defective, we demonstrate that both human infants and neonatal mice generate a robust type I interferon (IFN) response during CHIKV infection that contributes to, but is insufficient for, the complete control of infection. To characterize the mechanism by which type I IFNs control CHIKV infection, we evaluated the role of ISG15 and defined it as a central player in the host response, as neonatal mice lacking ISG15 were profoundly susceptible to CHIKV infection. Surprisingly, UbE1L−/− mice, which lack the ISG15 E1 enzyme and therefore are unable to form ISG15 conjugates, displayed no increase in lethality following CHIKV infection, thus pointing to a non-classical role for ISG15. No differences in viral loads were observed between wild-type (WT) and ISG15−/− mice, however, a dramatic increase in proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines was observed in ISG15−/− mice, suggesting that the innate immune response to CHIKV contributes to their lethality. This study provides new insight into the control of CHIKV infection, and establishes a new model for how ISG15 functions as an immunomodulatory molecule in the blunting of potentially pathologic levels of innate effector molecules during the host response to viral infection., Author Summary Type I interferon plays a critical role in the host defense to viral infection. Signaling through the type I IFN receptor allows for the induction of hundreds of interferon stimulated genes (ISGs) that generate an antiviral state within host cells. The ubiquitin-like molecule ISG15 has been shown to play an important role during multiple viral infections, including influenza virus infection. To date, the ability of ISG15 to protect against viral infection has been shown to be dependent on its ability to covalently bind (or conjugate) to target proteins, including the binding of viral proteins. We investigated the importance of the type I interferon response and ISG15 conjugation in a neonatal model of Chikungunya virus infection, a re-emerging human pathogen in the Indian Ocean region. Remarkably, the role of ISG15 during CHIKV infection appears to be conjugation independent, suggesting a non-classical role for ISG15 during viral infection. Our data also suggests that ISG15 plays an immunoregulatory role, as opposed to having direct antiviral function. Our CHIKV model may provide an opportunity to identify a novel mechanism by which ISG15 contributes to the innate immune response to viral infection.
Published: 2011
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41. SNMIB/Apollo protects leading-strand telomeres against NHEJ-mediated repair

Author: Sandy Chang, Eric Gilson, Anaïs Poulet, Yung C. Lam, Randy J. Legerski, Peili Gu, Marie Josèphe Giraud-Panis, Shamima Akhter, Susan M. Bailey, Jing Ye, Department of Genetics, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Laboratoire de biologie et pathologie des génomes, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Department of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (CHU Nice), Department of Hematopathology, Ganivet, Agnès, Laboratory of Biology and Pathology of Genomes, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Exonuclease, chromosomes, DNA Repair, DNA damage, Telomere-Binding Proteins, Cell Cycle Proteins, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Biology, Aminopeptidases, Shelterin Complex, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Mice, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, [SDV.BBM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Animals, [SDV.BBM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Dipeptidyl-Peptidases and Tripeptidyl-Peptidases, Molecular Biology, 030304 developmental biology, Mice, Knockout, 0303 health sciences, Nuclease, Tripeptidyl-Peptidase 1, General Immunology and Microbiology, DNA synthesis, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, General Neuroscience, DNA replication, Fibroblasts, Telomere, Embryo, Mammalian, telomeres, Molecular biology, DNA-Binding Proteins, Exodeoxyribonucleases, chemistry, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Knockout mouse, biology.protein, Serine Proteases, DNA
Abstract: Progressive telomere attrition or deficiency of the protective shelterin complex elicits a DNA damage response as a result of a cell's inability to distinguish dysfunctional telomeric ends from DNA double-strand breaks. SNMIB/Apollo is a shelterin-associated protein and a member of the SMN1/PSO2 nuclease family that localizes to telomeres through its interaction with TRF2. Here, we generated SNMIB/Apollo knockout mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) to probe the function of SNMIB/Apollo at mammalian telomeres. SNMIB/Apollo null MEFs exhibit an increased incidence of G2 chromatid-type fusions involving telomeres created by leading-strand DNA synthesis, reflective of a failure to protect these telomeres after DNA replication. Mutations within SNMIB/Apollo's conserved nuclease domain failed to suppress this phenotype, suggesting that its nuclease activity is required to protect leading-strand telomeres. SNMIB/Apollo(-/-)ATM(-/-) MEFs display robust telomere fusions when Trf2 is depleted, indicating that ATM is dispensable for repair of uncapped telomeres in this setting. Our data implicate the 5'-3' exonuclease function of SNM1B/Apollo in the generation of 3' single-stranded overhangs at newly replicated leading-strand telomeres to protect them from engaging the non-homologous end-joining pathway.
Published: 2010

42. Beta-catenin/Tcf-4 inhibition after progastrin targeting reduces growth and drives differentiation of intestinal tumors

Author: Julie Pannequin, Arthur Shulkes, André Pèlegrin, Fanny Surrel, Graham S. Baldwin, Pomila Singh, Frédéric Hollande, Nathalie Delaunay, Dominique Joubert, Joanne Ryan, Gérard Lambeau, Christine Pignodel, Philippe Jay, Stéphanie Boireau, Mildred Yim, Jean-François Bourgaux, Jessica Coelho, Michael Buchert, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (IGF), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de pharmacologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IPMC), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service d'Hépato Gastroentérologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes (CHU Nîmes), Immunociblage des tumeurs et ingénierie des anticorps, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and Service d'Anatomopathologie
Subjects: MESH: Signal Transduction, Small interfering RNA, MESH: Protein Precursors, MESH: Random Allocation, MESH: beta Catenin, Apoptosis, Cell Cycle Proteins, MESH: Gastrins, Mice, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Random Allocation, 0302 clinical medicine, Differentiation therapy, MESH: RNA, Small Interfering, MESH: Animals, RNA, Small Interfering, beta Catenin, Regulation of gene expression, 0303 health sciences, MESH: Genes, APC, biology, Gastroenterology, MESH: Transcription Factors, MESH: Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Adenomatous Polyposis Coli, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Colorectal Neoplasms, TCF Transcription Factors, Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein, Signal Transduction, Adenoma, Transcriptional Activation, Genes, APC, Beta-catenin, MESH: Cell Line, Tumor, Adenomatous polyposis coli, Transplantation, Heterologous, Mice, Nude, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, 03 medical and health sciences, MESH: Cell Cycle Proteins, Cell Line, Tumor, MESH: Cell Proliferation, Gastrins, MESH: Mice, Nude, Animals, Humans, Protein Precursors, MESH: Transplantation, Heterologous, MESH: Mice, PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Cell Proliferation, 030304 developmental biology, MESH: Adenoma, MESH: Humans, Hepatology, Cell growth, MESH: Apoptosis, MESH: 1-Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase, Molecular biology, MESH: Adenomatous Polyposis Coli, Repressor Proteins, MESH: Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Catenin, Cancer research, biology.protein, MESH: TCF Transcription Factors, MESH: Colorectal Neoplasms, Transcription Factors
Abstract: BACKGROUND & AIMS: Aberrant activation of the beta-catenin/Tcf-4 transcriptional complex represents an initiating event for colorectal carcinogenesis, shifting the balance from differentiation toward proliferation in colonic crypts. Here, we assessed whether endogenous progastrin, encoded by a target gene of this complex, was in turn able to regulate beta-catenin/Tcf-4 activity in adenomatous polyposis coli (APC)-mutated cells, and we analyzed the impact of topical progastrin depletion on intestinal tumor growth in vivo. METHODS: Stable or transient RNA silencing of the GAST gene was induced in human tumor cells and in mice carrying a heterozygous Apc mutation (APCDelta14), which overexpress progastrin but not amidated or glycine-extended gastrin. RESULTS: Depletion of endogenous progastrin production strongly decreased intestinal tumor growth in vivo through a marked inhibition of constitutive beta-catenin/Tcf-4 activity in tumor cells. This effect was mediated by the de novo expression of the inhibitor of beta-catenin and Tcf-4 (ICAT), resulting from a down-regulation of integrin-linked kinase in progastrin-depleted cells. Accordingly, ICAT down-regulation was correlated with progastrin overexpression and Tcf-4 target gene activation in human colorectal tumors, and ICAT repression was detected in the colon epithelium of tumor-prone, progastrin-overexpressing mice. In APCDelta14 mice, small interfering RNA-mediated progastrin depletion not only reduced intestinal tumor size and numbers, but also increased goblet cell lineage differentiation and cell apoptosis in the remaining adenomas. CONCLUSIONS: Thus, depletion of endogenous progastrin inhibits the tumorigenicity of APC-mutated colorectal cancer cells in vivo by promoting ICAT expression, thereby counteracting Tcf-4 activity. Progastrin targeting strategies should provide an exciting prospect for the differentiation therapy of colorectal cancer.
Published: 2007
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43. New Insights into Flavivirus Evolution, Taxonomy and Biogeographic History, Extended by Analysis of Canonical and Alternative Coding Sequences

Author: Ernest A. Gould, Xavier de Lamballerie, Philippe Lemey, Antoine Nougairède, Shelley Cook, Rémi N. Charrel, Gregory Moureau, Naomi L. Forrester, Khasnatinov Ma, Andrew E. Firth, Emergence des Pathologies Virales (EPV), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Division of Virology, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), and Lee, Young-Min
Subjects: BAGAZA VIRUS, Old World, Science, viruses, Molecular Sequence Data, GENUS FLAVIVIRUS, Genomics, Genome, Viral, INSECT-SPECIFIC FLAVIVIRUSES, Biology, Q1, WEST-NILE-VIRUS, complex mixtures, Genome, Evolution, Molecular, Open Reading Frames, Phylogenetics, NATURAL MOSQUITO POPULATION, DENGUE VIRUS, Phylogeny, Genetics, Translational frameshift, Multidisciplinary, Base Sequence, Phylogenetic tree, Flavivirus, Frameshifting, Ribosomal, virus diseases, NORTH-AMERICA, FUSING AGENT VIRUS, biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition, biology.organism_classification, ENCEPHALITIS-VIRUS, Phylogeography, Biology and Microbiology, TICK-BORNE FLAVIVIRUSES, Evolutionary biology, Viral evolution, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, Medicine, Research Article
Abstract: To generate the most diverse phylogenetic dataset for the flaviviruses to date, we determined the genomic sequences and phylogenetic relationships of 14 flaviviruses, of which 10 are primarily associated with Culex spp. mosquitoes. We analyze these data, in conjunction with a comprehensive collection of flavivirus genomes, to characterize flavivirus evolutionary and biogeographic history in unprecedented detail and breadth. Based on the presumed introduction of yellow fever virus into the Americas via the transatlantic slave trade, we extrapolated a timescale for a relevant subset of flaviviruses whose evolutionary history, shows that different Culex-spp. associated flaviviruses have been introduced from the Old World to the New World on at least five separate occasions, with 2 different sets of factors likely to have contributed to the dispersal of the different viruses. We also discuss the significance of programmed ribosomal frameshifting in a central region of the polyprotein open reading frame in some mosquito-associated flaviviruses. ispartof: PLoS One vol:10 issue:2 ispartof: location:United States status: published
Published: 2015
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44. Possibility and Challenges of Conversion of Current Virus Species Names to Linnaean Binomials

Author: Sbina Bavari, Susan Payne, Alexander Bukreyev, Arvind Varsani, Víctor Romanowski, Kartik Chandran, Ralf G. Dietzgen, Mark D. Stenglein, Anna N. Clawson, Sead Sabanadzovic, Gael Kurath, Andrea Maisner, Peter J. Walker, Ralf Dürrwald, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Eric M. Leroy, Mária Benko, Keizo Tomonaga, Gary P. Kobinger, Robert A. Lamb, Hideki Kondo, F. Murilo Zerbini, Martin Schwemmle, Robert B. Tesh, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Andrew J. Easton, Michael J. Buchmeier, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, Anna E. Whitfield, Nikos Vasilakis, Jonathan S. Towner, Pierre Formenty, Jens H. Kuhn, Norbert Nowotny, Roger Hewson, Ayato Takada, Mart Krupovic, Igor S. Lukashevich, David M. Stone, Clarence J. Peters, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Bertus K. Rima, Janusz T. Paweska, Masayuki Horie, Christopher S. Clegg, Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Christopher F. Basler, Sébastian Emonet, Charles H. Calisher, Lin-Fa Wang, Rémi N. Charrel, Jean L. Patterson, Elodie Ghedin, Dennis Rubbenstroth, Dàohóng Jiāng, Sergey V. Netesov, Hélène Sanfaçon, Thomas S. Postler, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Peter L. Collins, Noël Tordo, Maria S. Salvato, John M. Dye, Arcady Mushegian, Sophie J. Smither, Joseph L. DeRisi, Olga Dolnik, Kim R. Blasdell, Balázs Harrach, Viktor E. Volchkov, Thomas Briese, Andrew M. Kropinski, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), University of Washington [Seattle], Georgia State University, University System of Georgia (USG), Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases [USA] (USAMRIID), Institute for Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry (ATK TAKI), Centre for Agricultural Research [Budapest] (ATK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)-Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, University of California [Irvine] (UCI), University of California, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Albert Einstein College of Medicine [New York], Emergence des Pathologies Virales (EPV), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM), Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU Marseille), Les Mandinaux, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda] (NIAID-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, Scripps Research Institute, Department of Medicine [San Francisco], University of California [San Francisco] (UCSF), University of California-University of California, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), University of Queensland [Brisbane], Philipps University of Marburg, IDT Biologika, School of Life Sciences, Warwick University, Unité de Virologie, Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées (IRBA), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Department of Viroscience [Rotterdam, The Netherlands], Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology [New York], New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU)-New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU), Health for Development, Public Health England [Salisbury] (PHE), Kagoshima University, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Research Centre in Infectious Diseases, CHUL Research Centre and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval)-Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, University of Guelph, Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles (BMGE), Institut Pasteur [Paris], US Geological Survey [Seattle], United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), Northwestern University [Evanston], Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Infectious Disease, University of Texas at Austin [Austin], Novosibirsk State University (NSU), University of Veterinary Medicine [Vienna] (Vetmeduni), Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, TX], Texas A&M University System, National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg] (NICD), Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular [La Plata] (IBBM), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas [La Plata], Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP)-Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP), University of Freiburg [Freiburg], Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology [Mstate, USA] (BCH-EPP), Mississippi State University [Mississippi], Summerland Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food [Ottawa] (AAFC), University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland System, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Ministry of Defence (UK) (MOD), Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [Weymouth] (CEFAS), Hokkaido University [Sapporo, Japan], Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University [Kyoto], Stratégies antivirales, Institut Pasteur de Guinée, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-WHO Collaborative Centre for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity (BMPV), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center [Frederick], U.S. Social Security Administration, CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Ecoscience Precinct, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Duke-NUS Medical School [Singapore], Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU)-Biodesign Institute, Kansas State University, Departamento de Fitopatologia [Viçosa, Brazil] (BIOAGRO), Universidade Federal de Vicosa (UFV), This work was supported in part through Battelle Memorial Institute’s prime contract with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Contract No. HHSN272200700016I. A subcontractor to Battelle Memorial Institute who performed this work is J.H.K., an employee of Tunnell Government Services, Inc. This work was also funded in part under National Institutes of Health (NIH) contract HHSN272201000040I/HHSN27200004/D04 and R24AI120942 (N.V., R.B.T.), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Individual Research and Development (IR/D) program (A.R.M.)., We thank Laura Bollinger (NIH/NIAID Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA) for critically editing the manuscript, Andrew J. Davison (MRC – University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK) and Michael J. Adams (Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK) of the ICTV Executive Committee for suggestions on manuscript improvement, and Arya Ariël Kuhn for sustained vocal support and (dia)critical remarks, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU AMU), Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland (UQ), Public Health England [Porton Down, Salisbury], Faculty of Medicine-Laval University [Québec], Okayama University [Okayama], Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Texas Biomedical Research Institute [San Antonio, Texas], A&M University, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Centre for Experimental Medicine [Queen’s University of Belfast], Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Hokkaido University, Bases moléculaires de la pathogénicité virale – Molecular Basis of Viral Pathogenicity, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Duke NUS Medical School, Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Virology, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Columbia University [New York], University of California [Irvine] (UC Irvine), University of California (UC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), The Scripps Research Institute [La Jolla, San Diego], University of California [San Francisco] (UC San Francisco), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Philipps Universität Marburg = Philipps University of Marburg, University of Warwick [Coventry], Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées [Brétigny-sur-Orge] (IRBA), Huazhong Agricultural University [Wuhan] (HZAU), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC), Kyoto University, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa (UFV)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, MESH: Terminology as Topic, media_common.quotation_subject, Biología, 030106 microbiology, Binomials, Zoology, Biology, Points of View, 03 medical and health sciences, Genus, Terminology as Topic, Genetics, MESH: Classification, Epithet, Arenaviridae, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Virus classification, media_common, Order Mononegavirales, Evolutionary Biology, Virus taxonomy, Classification, MESH: Viruses, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, Virus nomenclature, Genealogy, Ictv, International committee on taxonomy of viruses, 030104 developmental biology, Homo sapiens, Viruses, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Mononegavirales
Abstract: Botanical, mycological, zoological, and prokaryotic species names follow the Linnaean format, consisting of an italicized Latinized binomen with a capitalized genus name and a lower case species epithet (e.g., Homo sapiens). Virus species names, however, do not follow a uniform format, and, even when binomial, are not Linnaean in style. In this thought exercise, we attempted toconvert all currently official names ofspecies included in the viru sfamily Arenaviridae and the virus order Mononegavirales to Linnaean binomials, and to identify and address associated challenges and concerns. Surprisingly, this endeavor was not as complicated or time-consuming as even the authors of this article expected when conceiving the experiment., La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo, Instituto de Biotecnologia y Biologia Molecular
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45. Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018

Author: Thomas Briese, Valerian V. Dolja, Shyi-Dong Yeh, Yīmíng Bào, Marco Marklewitz, Rakesh K. Jain, Thiện Hồ, Ioannis E. Tzanetakis, Yàzhōu Zhèng, Robert R. Martin, Tobiasz Druciarek, Janusz T. Paweska, S. V. Alkhovsky, Li Yang, Bradley S. Schneider, Beatriz Navarro, Nikos Vasilakis, Amethyst Gillis, Eugene V. Koonin, Petrus Jansen van Vuren, Michael J. Buchmeier, Francesco Di Serio, Takahide Sasaya, Wenxing Xu, Clarence J. Peters, Amy J. Lambert, Zuòkūn Yāng, Eric Delwart, Peter J. Walker, Charles H. Calisher, Florian Zirkel, Igor S. Lukashevich, Matthew LeBreton, Zhìqiáng Wú, Jean-Paul J. Gonzalez, Pertteli Salmenperä, Rémi N. Charrel, Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes, Liping Wang, Chénxī Zhū, Miranda Gilda Jonson, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Anja Kipar, Nicole Mielke-Ehret, Alan Kemp, Christopher S. Clegg, Nadia Storm, Víctor Romanowski, Guoping Wang, Olli Vapalahti, Jiang Du, Martin Beer, Qi Jin, Giovanni P. Martelli, Michael R. Wiley, Hélène Sanfaçon, Piet Maes, Mart Krupovic, Anne-Lise Haenni, Richard Kormelink, Rose C. Gergerich, Terry Fei Fan Ng, Toufic Elbeaino, Udo Hetzel, Ni Hong, Wanda Markotter, Yuri I. Wolf, Gustavo Palacios, Yanxiang Wang, Michele Digiaro, Connie S. Schmaljohn, Yukio Shirako, Mark D. Stenglein, Patrick L. Di Bello, Jussi Hepojoki, Alma G. Laney, Maria S. Salvato, Hideki Ebihara, Taiyun Wei, Sandra Junglen, Nathan D. Wolfe, Monica Birkhead, H.-P. Mühlbach, Stuart G. Siddell, Christian Drosten, Nikola O. Kondov, Hari Kishan Sudini, Joseph L. DeRisi, Mangala Uppala, Tarja Sironen, Jens H. Kuhn, Yǒng-Zhèn Zhāng, Karen E. Keller, Alexander Plyusnin, Yegor Korzyukov, Xueping Zhou, Il-Ryong Choi, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Robert B. Tesh, Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Gamaleya Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg] (NICD), Columbia University [New York], Synopsys Inc., Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC), Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario (UWO), Metabiota Inc. [San Francisco], East China Jiaotong University (ECJU), Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU Marseille), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), International Rice Research Institute [Philippines] (IRRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), Blood Systems Research Institute, University of California [San Francisco] (UC San Francisco), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Department of Laboratory Medicine [San Francisco], Universität Bonn = University of Bonn, Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research [Hamilton], National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (NIAID), Institut Jacques Monod (IJM (UMR_7592)), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Ocean and Earth Sciences (SOES-NOC), University of Southampton, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Laboratory of Virology [Wageningen], Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles (BMGE), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Mosaic, University of Pretoria [South Africa], Department of Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers, Instituto Evandro Chagas, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Department of Virology [Helsinki], Haartman Institute [Helsinki], Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular [La Plata] (IBBM), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas [La Plata], Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP)-Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP), Pacific Agri-Food Research Center, Divison of Plant Protection, National Agricultural Research Center, National Agricultural Research Center, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda] (NIAID-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), This work was supported in part through Battelle Memorial Institute’s prime contract with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Contract No. HHSN272200700016I (J.H.K.). This work was also funded in part by National Institutes of Health (NIH) contract HHSN272201000040I/HHSN27200004/D04 and Grant R24AI120942 (N.V., R.B.T.), intramural funds of the US Department of Health and Human Services to the US National Library of Medicine (E.V.K. and Y.I.W.), and the 100-Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFE0206600) and the International Union of Biological Sciences (Y.B.)., We thank Laura Bollinger (NIH/NIAID Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA) and F. Murilo Zerbini (BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil) for critically editing the manuscript., National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Agriculture and Agri-Food [Ottawa] (AAFC), Metabiota Inc., Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU AMU), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR], University of California [San Francisco] (UCSF), University of California-University of California, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Bonn, Wageningen University and Research Centre [Wageningen] (WUR), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki-Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Virology, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Viral Zoonosis Research Unit, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Veterinary Pathology and Parasitology, Veterinary Biosciences, Doctoral Programme in Drug Research, Doctoral Programme in Food Chain and Health, Veterinary Microbiology and Epidemiology, Olli Pekka Vapalahti / Principal Investigator, Clinicum, and Emerging Infections Research Group
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, MESH: Arenaviridae Infections/virology, Arenaviridae, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Biología, Laboratory of Virology, MYCOVIRUSES, [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, MESH: Arenaviridae/isolation & purification, ICTV, Bunyavirales / classifica??o, Bunyavirales, MESH: Animals, MESH: Phylogeny, MESH: Arenaviridae/genetics, Phylogeny, General Medicine, humanities, Genealogy, INCLUSION-BODY DISEASE, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, VIRUS, Taxonomy (biology), CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS, AFRICA, Classifica??o / m?todos, 030106 microbiology, Family Arenaviridae, ORDER BUNYAVIRALES, FAMILY ARENAVIRIDAE, DIVERGENT, Biology, Bunyaviridae / classifica??o, EMARAVIRUS, Ciencias Biológicas, Laboratorium voor Virologie, 03 medical and health sciences, Virology, Life Science, Animals, Arenaviridae Infections, Humans, Ciencias Exactas, SNAKES, MESH: Arenaviridae Infections/veterinary, Taxonomy, V?rus de RNA / gen?tica, MESH: Humans, IDENTIFICATION, TAXONOMY, Arenaviridae / classifica??o, 030104 developmental biology, DISCOVERY, 3111 Biomedicine, EPS, MESH: Arenaviridae/classification, Infections Humans, Virología
Abstract: In 2018, the family Arenaviridae was expanded by inclusion of 1 new genus and 5 novel species. At the same time, the recently established order Bunyavirales was expanded by 3 species. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) and summarizes additional taxonomic proposals that may affect the order in the near future., La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo., Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Instituto de Biotecnologia y Biologia Molecular
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46. Taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales: update 2019

Author: Lěi Zhāng, Janusz T. Paweska, S. V. Alkhovsky, Rémi N. Charrel, Jussi Hepojoki, Xiǎoméi Duàn, Chuánwèi Lǚ, Miranda Gilda Jonson, Keita Matsuno, Jessica R. Spengler, Aura R. Garrison, R. O. Resende, Hideki Ebihara, F. Murilo Zerbini, Jens H. Kuhn, Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes, Eric Bergeron, Anna Papa, Jin Won Song, Jūn Wáng, Chūn Kòu, Chéng Wáng, Thomas Briese, William Marciel de Souza, Francesco Di Serio, Igor S. Lukashevich, Mark D. Stenglein, Huálín Wáng, George Fú Gāo, Lìyǐng Zhū, Xavier de Lamballerie, Xueping Zhou, Anne Lise Haenni, Dan Liu, Matthew J. Ballinger, Zhìhóng Hú, Lies Laenen, Scott Adkins, Gustavo Palacios, Zhèngyuán Sū, Koray Ergünay, Abulikemu Abudurexiti, Jié Qiáo, Yong-Zhen Zhang, Martin Beer, Piet Maes, Giovanni P. Martelli, Holly R. Hughes, Charles H. Calisher, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Stephan Günther, Yànfāng Zhāng, Boris Klempa, Il-Ryong Choi, Rayapati A. Naidu, Sùróng Sūn, Takahide Sasaya, Bó Wáng, Toufic Elbeaino, Manuela Sironi, Ali Mirazimi, Peter Simmonds, J. Christopher S. Clegg, Jonas Klingström, Amadou A. Sall, Michele Digiaro, Beatriz Navarro, Roger Hewson, Fēi Dèng, Tāo Luò, Marco Marklewitz, Michael A. Drebot, Yújiāng Zhāng, Felicity J. Burt, Nicole Mielke-Ehret, Daniela Alioto, Jìngyuàn Zhāng, Maria S. Salvato, Maria Minutolo, Xiǎohóng Shí, Dennis A. Bente, Shuāng Táng, Taiyun Wei, Sandra Junglen, Stanley A. Langevin, Tatjana Avšič-Županc, Charles F. Fulhorst, Hans Peter Mühlbach, Víctor Romanowski, Massimo Turina, Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa, Martin H. Groschup, Yukio Shirako, Amy J. Lambert, Roy A. Hall, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Chénchén Cháng, Carol D. Blair, Shū Shěn, Anna E. Whitfield, Michael J. Buchmeier, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, Abulimiti Moming, Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Sassari, Medical School, University of Ljubljana, Institute of Diagnostic Virology (IVD), Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Fundación Instituto Leloir [Buenos Aires], Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), International Rice Research Institute [Philippines] (IRRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), The Scripps Research Institute [La Jolla], University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California-University of California, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rochester [USA], Hacettepe University = Hacettepe Üniversitesi, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Conditions et territoires d'émergence des maladies : dynamiques spatio-temporelles de l'émergence, évolution, diffusion/réduction des maladies, résistance et prémunition des hôtes (CTEM), Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine - Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin [Hamburg, Germany] (BNITM), Institut Jacques Monod (IJM (UMR_7592)), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Public Health England [Salisbury] (PHE), Humboldt State University (HSU), Slovak Academy of Science [Bratislava] (SAS), Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Department of Systems Biology, Sandia National Laboratories, Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Deakin University [Burwood], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA), Center for Microbiological Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Department of Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases [USA] (USAMRIID), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular [La Plata] (IBBM), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas [La Plata], Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP)-Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine] (UNLP), Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Divison of Plant Protection, National Agricultural Research Center, National Agricultural Research Center, University of Edinburgh, Centro San Giovanni di Dio, Fatebenefratelli, Brescia (IRCCS), Università degli Studi di Brescia [Brescia], Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Changchun Branch] (CAS)-Institute of Zoology, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food [Ottawa] (AAFC), Universidade Federal de Vicosa (UFV), State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda] (NIAID-NIH), National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Viral Zoonosis Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Medicum, Università degli Studi di Sassari = University of Sassari [Sassari] (UNISS), University of Ljubljana, Columbia University [New York], Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), The Scripps Research Institute [La Jolla, San Diego], Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro = University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA), U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Università degli Studi di Brescia = University of Brescia (UniBs), Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC), Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Abudurexiti, A., Adkins, S., Alioto, D., Alkhovsky, S. V., Avsic-Zupanc, T., Ballinger, M. J., Bente, D. A., Beer, M., Bergeron, E., Blair, C. D., Briese, T., Buchmeier, M. J., Burt, F. J., Calisher, C. H., Chang, C., Charrel, R. N., Choi, I. R., Clegg, J. C. S., de la Torre, J. C., de Lamballerie, X., Deng, F., Di Serio, F., Digiaro, M., Drebot, M. A., Duan, X., Ebihara, H., Elbeaino, T., Ergunay, K., Fulhorst, C. F., Garrison, A. R., Gao, G. F., Gonzalez, J. -P. J., Groschup, M. H., Gunther, S., Haenni, A. -L., Hall, R. A., Hepojoki, J., Hewson, R., Hu, Z., Hughes, H. R., Jonson, M. G., Junglen, S., Klempa, B., Klingstrom, J., Kou, C., Laenen, L., Lambert, A. J., Langevin, S. A., Liu, D., Lukashevich, I. S., Luo, T., Lu, C., Maes, P., de Souza, W. M., Marklewitz, M., Martelli, G. P., Matsuno, K., Mielke-Ehret, N., Minutolo, M., Mirazimi, A., Moming, A., Muhlbach, H. -P., Naidu, R., Navarro, B., Nunes, M. R. T., Palacios, G., Papa, A., Pauvolid-Correa, A., Paweska, J. T., Qiao, J., Radoshitzky, S. R., Resende, R. O., Romanowski, V., Sall, A. A., Salvato, M. S., Sasaya, T., Shen, S., Shi, X., Shirako, Y., Simmonds, P., Sironi, M., Song, J. -W., Spengler, J. R., Stenglein, M. D., Su, Z., Sun, S., Tang, S., Turina, M., Wang, B., Wang, C., Wang, H., Wang, J., Wei, T., Whitfield, A. E., Zerbini, F. M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -Z., Zhou, X., Zhu, L., and Kuhn, J. H.
Subjects: GUAMA, SPOT-VIRUS, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Biología, Bunyaviridae, DIVERSITY, cogovirus, COMPLETE NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE, Genome, Viral, bunyavirus, Biology, Bunyaviridae / classifica??o, Article, CAPIM, ICTV, 03 medical and health sciences, Virology, PHLEBOVIRUS, Bunyavirales, MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION, TOSPOVIRUS, Arenaviridae, Ratification, Phylogeny, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, IDENTIFICATION, 030306 microbiology, CHRYSANTHEMUM, Arenavirid, Arenavirus, General Medicine, Arbovirus / classifica??o, Genealogy, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Taxon, classification, Bunyavirad, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, RNA, Viral, Taxonomy (biology), 3111 Biomedicine, Bunyavirid
Abstract: In February 2019, following the annual taxon ratification vote, the order Bunyavirales was amended by creation of two new families, four new subfamilies, 11 new genera and 77 new species, merging of two species, and deletion of one species. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)., La lista completa de autores puede verse al final del archivo asociado., Instituto de Biotecnologia y Biologia Molecular
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