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Epidemiologic and virologic investigation of hand, foot, and mouth disease, southern Vietnam, 2005Phan Van Tu
Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1733-41. 2007..In the second half of the year, viruses belonging to subgenogroup C5 predominated during a period of higher HEV71 activity...
Roles for endocytosis and low pH in herpes simplex virus entry into HeLa and Chinese hamster ovary cellsAnthony V Nicola
Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Virol 77:5324-32. 2003Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection of many cultured cells, e.g., Vero cells, can be initiated by receptor binding and pH-neutral fusion with the cell surface...
Herpes simplex virus-1 entry into cells mediated by a novel member of the TNF/NGF receptor familyR I Montgomery
Northwestern University Medical School, Department of Microbiology Immunology, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
Cell 87:427-36. 1996..The contribution of HVEM to HSV entry into human cells was demonstrable in activated T cells. HVEM, the first identified mediator of HSV entry, is a new member of the TNF/NGF receptor family...
Endosomal proteolysis of the Ebola virus glycoprotein is necessary for infectionKartik Chandran
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Science 308:1643-5. 2005..CatB and CatB/CatL inhibitors diminish the multiplication of infectious EboV-Zaire in cultured cells and may merit investigation as anti-EboV drugs...
Cellular and viral requirements for rapid endocytic entry of herpes simplex virusAnthony V Nicola
Medical Virology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1888, USA
J Virol 78:7508-17. 2004..Thus, similar to entry via direct penetration at the cell surface, HSV entry into cells by wortmannin-sensitive endocytosis is efficient, involves rapid cellular uptake of viral particles, and requires gB, gD, and gH-gL...
Assembly and maturation of the flavivirus Kunjin virus appear to occur in the rough endoplasmic reticulum and along the secretory pathway, respectivelyJ M MacKenzie
Clinical Medical Virology Centre, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
J Virol 75:10787-99. 2001..The results suggest that the assembly of virions occurs within the lumen of the RER and that subsequent maturation occurs via the secretory pathway...
Persistent infection with ebola virus under conditions of partial immunityManisha Gupta
Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Virol 78:958-67. 2004....
Rab9 GTPase is required for replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1, filoviruses, and measles virusJames L Murray
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Virol 79:11742-51. 2005..These results suggest that Rab9 is an important cellular target for inhibiting diverse viruses and help to define a late-endosome-to-plasma-membrane vesicular transport pathway important in viral assembly...
The endoplasmic reticulum provides the membrane platform for biogenesis of the flavivirus replication complexLeah K Gillespie
Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne 3086, Australia
J Virol 84:10438-47. 2010..In addition, we provide data that indicate that a majority of the viral RNA species housed within the RC is in a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) form...
Continuous cell lines as a production system for influenza vaccinesYvonne Genzel
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Bioprocess Engineering Magdeburg, Sandtorstr 1, Magdeburg 39106, Germany
Expert Rev Vaccines 8:1681-92. 2009..These encouraging developments for cell culture-based influenza virus production are summarized and an overview on potential cell substrates is given...
The NS5 protein of the virulent West Nile virus NY99 strain is a potent antagonist of type I interferon-mediated JAK-STAT signalingMaudry Laurent-Rolle
Laboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, 903 S Fourth St, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
J Virol 84:3503-15. 2010..Thus, a naturally occurring mutation is associated with the function of NS5 in IFN antagonism and may influence virulence of WNV field isolates...
Quantitation of flaviviruses by fluorescent focus assayAnne F Payne
The Arbovirus Laboratories, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, 5668 State Farm Rd, Slingerlands, NY 12159, USA
J Virol Methods 134:183-9. 2006..Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV), and Dengue virus (DENV) types 1-4. Vero cells were plated in 8-well chamber slides, and infected with 10-fold serial dilutions of virus...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus evades antiviral signaling: role of nsp1 and rational design of an attenuated strainMarc G Wathelet
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267 0576, USA
J Virol 81:11620-33. 2007..However, mutant virus replication was strongly attenuated in cells with an intact IFN response. Thus, nsp1 is likely a virulence factor that contributes to pathogenicity by favoring SARS-CoV replication...
Temporal analysis of Coxiella burnetii morphological differentiationSherry A Coleman
Coxiella Pathogenesis Unit, NIAID NIH, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, 903 S 4th Street, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
J Bacteriol 186:7344-52. 2004..We developed a model to study C. burnetii morphogenesis that uses Vero cells synchronously infected with homogeneous SCV (Nine Mile strain in phase II) harvested from aged infected cell ..
Phenotype of a herpes simplex virus type 1 mutant that fails to express immediate-early regulatory protein ICP0Roger D Everett
MRC Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, Glasgow G11 5JR, Scotland, United Kingdom
J Virol 78:1763-74. 2004....
Image-guided radiovirotherapy for multiple myeloma using a recombinant measles virus expressing the thyroidal sodium iodide symporterDavid Dingli
Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Blood 103:1641-6. 2004..Testing in other radiosensitive cancers is warranted...
Glycoprotein D receptor-dependent, low-pH-independent endocytic entry of herpes simplex virus type 1Richard S B Milne
Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine, 215 Levy Building, 240 South 40th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6002, USA
J Virol 79:6655-63. 2005..pathways have been described: direct fusion between the virion envelope and the plasma membrane, as seen on Vero cells, and low-pH-dependent endocytosis, as seen on CHO nectin-1 and HeLa cells...
Assembly and budding of EbolavirusTakeshi Noda
Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
PLoS Pathog 2:e99. 2006..These data form a foundation for the identification and development of potential antiviral agents to combat the devastating disease caused by this virus...
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus delays activation of the innate immune responseIda Andersson
KCB Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden
J Med Virol 80:1397-404. 2008..In summary, the results suggest the presence of a virulence factor encoded by CCHFV that delays the host defence in order to allow rapid viral spread in the host...
Recovery of infectious Ebola virus from complementary DNA: RNA editing of the GP gene and viral cytotoxicityV E Volchkov
Institut fur Virologie, Philipps Universitat, Robert Koch Strasse 17, 35037 Marburg, Germany
Science 291:1965-9. 2001..The mutant was significantly more cytotoxic than wild-type virus, indicating that cytotoxicity caused by GP is down-regulated by the virus through transcriptional RNA editing and expression of sGP...
A rapid and quantitative assay for measuring antibody-mediated neutralization of West Nile virus infectionTheodore C Pierson
Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Virology 346:53-65. 2006..WNV RVPs are capable of only a single round of infection, can be used under BSL-2 conditions, and offer a rapid and quantitative approach for detecting virus entry and its inhibition by neutralizing antibody...
Microtubule-mediated transport of incoming herpes simplex virus 1 capsids to the nucleusB Sodeik
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8002, USA
J Cell Biol 136:1007-21. 1997..presence and absence of microtubule depolymerizing agents, it was shown that the cytosolic capsid transport in Vero cells was mediated by microtubules...
Human membrane cofactor protein (CD46) acts as a cellular receptor for measles virusD Naniche
CNRS ENS Lyon UMR 49, France
J Virol 67:6025-32. 1993..These results show that the human CD46 molecule serves as an MV receptor allowing virus-cell binding, fusion, and viral replication and open new perspectives in the study of MV pathogenesis...
Interaction of dengue virus envelope protein with endoplasmic reticulum-resident chaperones facilitates dengue virus productionThawornchai Limjindaporn
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 379:196-200. 2009..These results indicate that the interaction of these three chaperones with DENV E plays an important role in virion production, likely facilitating proper folding and assembly of dengue proteins...
Pre-clinical development of cell culture (Vero)-derived H5N1 pandemic vaccinesM Keith Howard
Baxter AG, Biomedical Research Center, Uferstrasse 15, A 2304 Orth Donau, Austria
Biol Chem 389:569-77. 2008..These data indicate that cell culture-grown, whole virus vaccines, based on the wild-type virus, allow the rapid high-yield production of a candidate pandemic vaccine...
Antiviral activities of extracts from Hong Kong seaweedsHui Wang
Medical College, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
J Zhejiang Univ Sci B 9:969-76. 2008..HI-3, a compound fractionated from this hot water extract, showed a dose-dependent anti-HSV activity in flow cytometric analysis and plaque reduction assay...
Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of a Vero-cell-culture-derived trivalent influenza vaccine: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trialP Noel Barrett
Global Research and Development, Baxter BioScience, Biomedical Research Centre, Orth Donau, Austria
Lancet 377:751-9. 2011..We investigated the safety, immunogenicity, and protective efficacy of a Vero-cell-culture-derived influenza vaccine, and assessed the correlation between vaccine efficacy and haemagglutination inhibition antibody titre...
The hemagglutinin-neuraminidase protein of Newcastle disease virus determines tropism and virulenceZhuhui Huang
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
J Virol 78:4176-84. 2004..These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the virulence of NDV is multigenic and that the cleavability of F protein alone does not determine the virulence of a strain...
Anti-herpes simplex virus activity of sulfated galactans from the red seaweeds Gymnogongrus griffithsiae and Cryptonemia crenulataLaura B Talarico
, , Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, , 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Biol Macromol 34:63-71. 2004..5-5.6 microg/ml, as determined in a virus plaque reduction assay in Vero cells. The galactans lacked cytotoxic effects and showed a broad spectrum of antiviral activity against HSV-1 and HSV-..
One time intranasal vaccination with a modified vaccinia Tiantan strain MVTT(ZCI) protects animals against pathogenic viral challengeWenbo Yu
AIDS Center and Modern Virology Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, PR China
Vaccine 28:2088-96. 2010..This study established proof-of-concept that the attenuated replicating MVTT(ZCI) may serve as a safe noninvasive smallpox vaccine candidate...
Nuclear localization of Japanese encephalitis virus core protein enhances viral replicationYoshio Mori
Research Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
J Virol 79:3448-58. 2005..M4243 virus exhibited RNA replication and protein synthesis comparable to wild-type JEV, whereas propagation in Vero cells was impaired...
The receptor-binding region of human apolipoprotein E has direct anti-infective activityCurtis B Dobson
Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK
J Infect Dis 193:442-50. 2006..The APOE genotype has a uniquely strong influence on the outcome of viral infection. The mechanism is unknown, although one possibility is direct inhibition of viral entry into cells...
Cell culture (Vero) derived whole virus (H5N1) vaccine based on wild-type virus strain induces cross-protective immune responsesOtfried Kistner
Baxter AG, Biomedical Research Center, Uferstrasse 15, A 2304 Orth Donau, Austria
Vaccine 25:6028-36. 2007..These data indicate that cell culture-grown whole virus vaccines, based on the wild-type virus, allow the rapid high yield production of a candidate pandemic vaccine...
An attenuated strain of enterovirus 71 belonging to genotype a showed a broad spectrum of antigenicity with attenuated neurovirulence in cynomolgus monkeysMinetaro Arita
Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4 7 1 Gakuen, Musashimurayama shi, Tokyo 208 0011, Japan
J Virol 81:9386-95. 2007..In the CNS, EV71(S1-3') was isolated only from the spinal cord. These results indicate that EV71(S1-3') acts as an effective antigen, although this attenuated strain was still neurotropic when inoculated via the intravenous route...
Expression of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin receptors claudin-3 and claudin-4 in prostate cancer epitheliumH Long
Departments of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
Cancer Res 61:7878-81. 2001..The persistent high level of claudin-3 expression in prostate adenocarcinoma and functional cytotoxicity of CPE in metastatic androgen-independent prostate adenocarcinoma suggests a new potential therapeutic strategy for prostate cancer...
A microcarrier cell culture process for propagating rabies virus in Vero cells grown in a stirred bioreactor under fully animal component free conditionsSamia Rourou
Viral Vaccines Research and Development Unit, Institut Pasteur, 13, Place Pasteur, BP 74, 1002 Tunis, Tunisia
Vaccine 25:3879-89. 2007Rabies virus strain production in Vero cells grown on Cytodex 1 in a 2 L stirred tank bioreactor and in a medium free of components of human or animal origin (VP-SFM) is described...
Characterization of homologous defective interfering RNA during persistent infection of Vero cells with Japanese encephalitis virusSung Wook Yoon
Department of Biology and Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea
Mol Cells 21:112-20. 2006..We identified a homolo-gous DI virus intimately associated with JEV persis-tence in Vero cells. The production of DI RNA during undiluted serial passages of JEV coincided with the appearance of cells ..
Molecular and phenotypic analysis of a working seed lot of yellow fever virus 17DD vaccine strain produced from the secondary seed lot 102/84 with an additional passage in chicken embryosRenato S Marchevsky
, , Avenida Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21040-900, Brazil
Biologicals 34:191-7. 2006..It is concluded that the additional chicken embryo passage did not lead to any genetic change and the new working seed virus retained its attenuation for monkeys comparable to the 102/84 reference virus...
Herpes simplex virus gE/gI must accumulate in the trans-Golgi network at early times and then redistribute to cell junctions to promote cell-cell spreadAaron Farnsworth
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR 97239, USA
J Virol 80:3167-79. 2006..Additionally, gE CT sequences between residues 495 and 519, which contain no obvious cell sorting motifs, are required to promote gE/gI traffic to cell junctions and cell-to-cell spread...
Role of endosomal cathepsins in entry mediated by the Ebola virus glycoproteinKathryn Schornberg
Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, 1300 Jefferson Park Ave, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0734, USA
J Virol 80:4174-8. 2006..These and other results support a model in which CatB and CatL prime GP by generating a 19-kDa intermediate that can be acted upon by an as yet unidentified endosomal/lysosomal enzyme to trigger fusion...
Live attenuated influenza virus expressing human interleukin-2 reveals increased immunogenic potential in young and aged hostsBoris Ferko
Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18B, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
J Virol 80:11621-7. 2006..Our findings emphasize the potential of reverse genetics to improve the efficacy of live influenza vaccines, thus rendering them more suitable for high-risk age groups...
Rapid detection of important human pathogenic PhlebovirusesManfred Weidmann
Institute of Virology, University of Gottingen, Kreuzbergring 57, 37075 Gottingen, Germany
J Clin Virol 41:138-42. 2008..Rapid diagnostics are not available for several human pathogens in the genus Phlebovirus of the Bunyaviridae...
Influenza B mutant viruses with truncated NS1 proteins grow efficiently in Vero cells and are immunogenic in miceNina Wressnigg
Avir Greenhills Biotechnology, Gersthoferstrasse 29 31, 1180 Vienna, Austria
J Gen Virol 90:366-74. 2009..Viable viruses containing the N-terminal 14, 38, 57 or 80 aa of the NS1 protein were rescued in Vero cells. The influenza B virus NS1-truncated mutants were impaired in their ability to counteract interferon (IFN) ..
Quantitative proteomics using stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture reveals changes in the cytoplasmic, nuclear, and nucleolar proteomes in Vero cells infected with the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virusEdward Emmott
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Mol Cell Proteomics 9:1920-36. 2010..Here we detail a high throughput quantitative proteomics analysis of Vero cells infected with the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), a positive strand RNA virus that replicates in ..
Assessment of immunogenic potential of Vero adapted formalin inactivated vaccine derived from novel ECSA genotype of Chikungunya virusMugdha Tiwari
Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, M P, India
Vaccine 27:2513-22. 2009....
Anterograde spread of herpes simplex virus type 1 requires glycoprotein E and glycoprotein I but not Us9Helen M McGraw
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6073, USA
J Virol 83:8315-26. 2009..This finding contrasts with gE- and gI-deleted viruses, which displayed no anterograde spread in any animal model. Thus, gE and gI are essential for HSV-1 anterograde spread, while Us9 is dispensable...
Incorporation of the green fluorescent protein into the herpes simplex virus type 1 capsidP Desai
Virology Laboratories, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Virol 72:7563-8. 1998....
During lytic infections, herpes simplex virus type 1 DNA is in complexes with the properties of unstable nucleosomesJonathan J Lacasse
Signal Transduction Research Group, Molecular Mechanisms of Growth Control Research Group, University of Alberta, 327C Heritage Medical Research Center, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2S2, Canada
J Virol 84:1920-33. 2010..The HSV-1 DNAs in complexes fractionating as mono- to dinucleosomes were stabilized by cross-linking. Therefore, most HSV-1 DNA forms particularly unstable nucleosome-like complexes at 5 h of lytic infection...
Modification and reorganization of the cytoprotective cellular chaperone Hsp27 during herpes simplex virus type 1 infectionShomita S Mathew
Wadsworth Center, The David Axelrod Institute, New York State Department of Health, Albany, 12208, USA
J Virol 83:9304-12. 2009..Conversely, we find that phosphorylated forms of Hsp27 are localized exclusively in the cytoplasm. Last, in cells depleted of all forms of Hsp27, virus replication is significantly reduced...
A novel function of heparan sulfate in the regulation of cell-cell fusionChristopher D O'Donnell
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
J Biol Chem 284:29654-65. 2009..This could serve as a possible explanation as to why HS-deficient cells showed significantly enhanced cell-cell fusion and suggests that HS could regulate fusion via fine tuning of RhoA and Cdc42 activities...
Characterization of mosquito-adapted West Nile virusAlexander T Ciota
The Arbovirus Laboratories, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, 5668 State Farm Road, Slingerlands, NY 12159, USA
J Gen Virol 89:1633-42. 2008....
A viral E3 ligase targets RNF8 and RNF168 to control histone ubiquitination and DNA damage responsesCaroline E Lilley
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
EMBO J 29:943-55. 2010..Our study raises the possibility that the ICP0-mediated control of histone ubiquitination may link DNA repair, relief of transcriptional repression, and activation of latent viral genomes...
MDCK and Vero cells for influenza virus vaccine production: a one-to-one comparison up to lab-scale bioreactor cultivationYvonne Genzel
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 88:461-75. 2010Over the last decade, adherent MDCK (Madin Darby canine kidney) and Vero cells have attracted considerable attention for production of cell culture-derived influenza vaccines...
Use of MDCK cells for production of live attenuated influenza vaccineJonathan Liu
MedImmune, LLC, 3055 Patrick Henry Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States
Vaccine 27:6460-3. 2009..Both Vero and MDCK cells could support a higher level of virus replication for certain strains, however, Vero cells only produced high titers when grown in the presence of serum...
A SAP30 complex inhibits IFN-beta expression in Rift Valley fever virus infected cellsNicolas Le May
Unite de Genetique Moleculaire des Bunyavirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
PLoS Pathog 4:e13. 2008..We discuss here the strategy developed by the highly pathogenic RVFV to evade the host antiviral response, affecting nuclear organization and IFN-beta promoter chromatin structure...
Preclinical evaluation of a replication-deficient intranasal DeltaNS1 H5N1 influenza vaccineJulia Romanova
Avir Green Hills Biotechnology AG, Vienna, Austria
PLoS ONE 4:e5984. 2009..As a result, DeltaNS1 viruses elicit strong B- and T- cell mediated immune responses...
Characterization of a Coxiella burnetii ftsZ mutant generated by Himar1 transposon mutagenesisPaul A Beare
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, Montana 59840, USA
J Bacteriol 191:1369-81. 2009..b>Vero cells were infected with electroporated C...
The SARS-Coronavirus PLnc domain of nsp3 as a replication/transcription scaffolding proteinIsabelle Imbert
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Universités d Aix Marseille I et II, UMR 6098, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolecules Biologiques, Ecole Supérieure d Ingénieurs de Luminy Case 925, Marseille Cedex 9, France
Virus Res 133:136-48. 2008..The interaction map thus provides a sum of the interactions that may occur at some point during coronavirus RNA synthesis and provides a framework for future research...
The low lysine content of ricin A chain reduces the risk of proteolytic degradation after translocation from the endoplasmic reticulum to the cytosolEmma D Deeks
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
Biochemistry 41:3405-13. 2002..This effect could also be reversed by proteasomal inhibition. Our data support the hypothesis that the evolution of a low lysine content is a degradation-avoidance strategy for toxins that retrotranslocate from the ER...
A role for the protease-sensitive loop region of Shiga-like toxin 1 in the retrotranslocation of its A1 domain from the endoplasmic reticulum lumenPaul LaPointe
Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto and the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Canada
J Biol Chem 280:23310-8. 2005..in the context of the 251-residue long A(1) domain or affect the toxicity of the resulting Slt-I variants toward Vero cells in the context of the holotoxin...
Export of a Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry neck protein complex at the host cell membrane to form the moving junction during invasionSebastien Besteiro
UMR 5235 CNRS, Université de Montpellier 2, Montpelier, France
PLoS Pathog 5:e1000309. 2009..Globally, these results point toward a model of MJ organization where the parasite would be secreting and inserting interacting components on either side of the MJ, both at the host and at its own plasma membranes...
Complete genome analysis of 33 ecologically and biologically diverse Rift Valley fever virus strains reveals widespread virus movement and low genetic diversity due to recent common ancestryBrian H Bird
Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road MS G 14, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
J Virol 81:2805-16. 2007..In addition to insights into the evolution and ecology of RVF virus, these genomic data also provide a foundation for the design of molecular detection assays and prototype vaccines useful in combating this important disease...
Herpes simplex virus-infected cell protein 0 blocks the silencing of viral DNA by dissociating histone deacetylases from the CoREST-REST complexHaidong Gu
Marjorie B Kovler Viral Oncology Laboratories, University of Chicago, 910 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:17134-9. 2007..1 pfu of virus per cell was 100-, 10-, and 10-fold higher, respectively, than those of R8501 mutant virus. In Vero cells, the yield of R8502 was identical with that of wild-type virus...
Flow cytometry-based assay for titrating dengue virusC R Lambeth
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, CB #7290, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Clin Microbiol 43:3267-72. 2005..The novel FACS-based methods described here will facilitate laboratory studies of dengue...
Structural basis of West Nile virus neutralization by a therapeutic antibodyGrant E Nybakken
Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Nature 437:764-9. 2005..Collectively, our results suggest that a vaccine strategy targeting the dominant DIII epitope may elicit safe and effective immune responses against flaviviral diseases...
Isolation of Nipah virus from Malaysian Island flying-foxesKaw Bing Chua
Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Lumpur, Kuala, Malaysia
Microbes Infect 4:145-51. 2002..urine and one from a partially eaten fruit swab) that caused Nipah virus-like syncytial cytopathic effect in Vero cells and stained strongly with Nipah- and Hendra-specific antibodies were isolated...
Protein kinase D-dependent trafficking of the large Herpes simplex virus type 1 capsids from the TGN to plasma membraneGaudeline Rémillard-Labrosse
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Traffic 10:1074-83. 2009..Lastly, given the apical release of HSV-1 in neurons, it opens up the possibility that this kinase might regulate some apical sorting...
Mutations in the E9L polymerase gene of cidofovir-resistant vaccinia virus strain WR are associated with the drug resistance phenotypeRichard S Kornbluth
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0676, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 50:4038-43. 2006..These findings suggest that drug therapy for poxviruses may be complicated by drug resistance but that treatment of the infection with currently known compounds is possible...
Double-stranded RNA is produced by positive-strand RNA viruses and DNA viruses but not in detectable amounts by negative-strand RNA virusesFriedemann Weber
Abteilung Virologie, Institut fur Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universitat Freiburg, D 79008 Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 80:5059-64. 2006..Surprisingly, however, no dsRNA signals were detected for negative-strand RNA viruses. Thus, dsRNA is indeed a general feature of most virus groups, but negative-strand RNA viruses appear to be an exception to that rule...
NSs protein of Rift Valley fever virus blocks interferon production by inhibiting host gene transcriptionAgnès Billecocq
Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Bunyaviridés, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
J Virol 78:9798-806. 2004..The present results suggest that NSs, unlike other viral IFN antagonists, does not inhibit IFN-specific transcription factors but blocks IFN gene expression at a subsequent step...
Chimeric alphavirus vaccine candidates for chikungunyaEryu Wang
Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, United States
Vaccine 26:5030-9. 2008..Vaccinated mice were fully protected against disease and viremia after CHIKV challenge...
Transcriptional coactivators are not required for herpes simplex virus type 1 immediate-early gene expression in vitroSebla B Kutluay
Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
J Virol 83:3436-49. 2009....
Budding of Marburgvirus is associated with filopodiaLarissa Kolesnikova
Institute of Virology, Marburg Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
Cell Microbiol 9:939-51. 2007..As filopodia are in close contact with neighbouring cells, usurpation of these structures may facilitate spread of MARV to adjacent cells...
Ebola virus-like particles protect from lethal Ebola virus infectionKelly L Warfield
US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:15889-94. 2003..Together, our data suggest that eVLPs represent a promising vaccine candidate for protection against Ebola virus infections and a much needed tool to examine the genesis and nature of immune responses to Ebola virus...
Multiple anti-interferon actions of the influenza A virus NS1 proteinGeorg Kochs
Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, D 79008 Freiburg, Germany
J Virol 81:7011-21. 2007..Our results demonstrate the capacity of FLUAV NS1 to suppress the antiviral host defense at multiple levels and the existence of strain-specific differences that may modulate virus pathogenicity...
Influenza virus evades innate and adaptive immunity via the NS1 proteinAna Fernandez-Sesma
Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Virol 80:6295-304. 2006..Our observations also support the potential use of NS1 mutant influenza viruses as live attenuated influenza virus vaccines...
Conformational reorganization of the SARS coronavirus spike following receptor binding: implications for membrane fusionDaniel R Beniac
Viral Diseases Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
PLoS ONE 2:e1082. 2007..The SARS-CoV spike provides an ideal model system to study receptor binding and membrane fusion in the native state, employing cryo-electron microscopy and single-particle image analysis...
Nectin-2-mediated entry of a syncytial strain of herpes simplex virus via pH-independent fusion with the plasma membrane of Chinese hamster ovary cellsMark G Delboy
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 23298 0678, USA
Virol J 3:105. 2006..The receptor requirements for HSV-induced FFWO are not known. We used the syncytial HSV-1 strain ANG path as a tool to evaluate the complex interplay between receptor usage, membrane fusion, and selection of entry pathway...
Low pH-induced conformational change in herpes simplex virus glycoprotein BStephen J Dollery
1101 E Marshall St, Room 6 038, P O Box 980678, Richmond, VA 23298 0678
J Virol 84:3759-66. 2010..We propose that intracellular low pH induces alterations in gB conformation that, together with additional triggers such as receptor binding, are essential for virion-cell fusion during herpesviral entry by endocytosis...
Overexpression of gK in gK-transformed cells collapses the Golgi apparatus into the endoplasmic reticulum inhibiting virion egress, glycoprotein transport, and virus-induced cell fusionTimothy P Foster
Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Virology 317:237-52. 2003..Therefore, virion entrapment within perinuclear spaces and inhibition of glycoprotein transport are due to gK-mediated collapse of the Golgi apparatus...
Varicella-zoster virus ORF4 latency-associated protein is important for establishment of latencyJeffrey I Cohen
Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Virol 79:6969-75. 2005..Thus, in addition to VZV ORF63, which was previously shown to be critical for efficient establishment of latency, ORF4 is also important for latent infection...
Beta interferon and gamma interferon synergize to block viral DNA and virion synthesis in herpes simplex virus-infected cellsAmy T Pierce
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Gen Virol 86:2421-32. 2005..To this end, multiple steps in HSV-1 infection were compared in populations of Vero cells infected with HSV-1 strain KOS (m.o.i. of 2...
Characterization of the triplet repeats in the central domain of the gamma134.5 protein of herpes simplex virus 1Xianghong Jing
Department of Microbiology and Immunology (M/C 790, College of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 835 South Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Gen Virol 86:2411-9. 2005..Accordingly, these mutant viruses are predominantly present within infected cells. These results indicate that deletions in the central domain of the gamma134.5 protein impair virus egress, but not virus response to interferon...
Cinanserin is an inhibitor of the 3C-like proteinase of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and strongly reduces virus replication in vitroLili Chen
Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
J Virol 79:7095-103. 2005..These findings demonstrate that the old drug cinanserin is an inhibitor of SARS-CoV replication, acting most likely via inhibition of the 3CL proteinase...
State and role of SRC family kinases in replication of herpes simplex virus 1Yu Liang
The Marjorie B Kovler Viral Oncology Laboratories, University of Chicago, 910 East 58th Street, Chicago IL 60637, USA
J Virol 80:3349-59. 2006..We conclude that HSV-1 proteins regulate the activities of Src family kinases to achieve optimal viral yields in the course of viral replication...
Resveratrol suppresses nuclear factor-kappaB in herpes simplex virus infected cellsSeth A Faith
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA
Antiviral Res 72:242-51. 2006..determined that resveratrol, in a dose dependent and reversible manner, suppressed activation of NF-kappaB in Vero cells infected with HSV-1, HSV-2 and acyclovir resistant HSV-1...
Synthesis of novel substituted 2-phenylpyrazolopyridines with potent activity against herpesvirusesKristjan S Gudmundsson
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, Five Moore Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 3398, USA
Bioorg Med Chem 13:5346-61. 2005..Approaches to rapidly access a number of analogs with different 2-phenyl substitution patterns are outlined. Several of the compounds described have comparable activity to acyclovir against HSV-1 and HSV-2...
The role of protein kinase activity expressed by the UL13 gene of herpes simplex virus 1: the activity is not essential for optimal expression of UL41 and ICP0Michiko Tanaka
Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Disease, Shinjuku ku, Tokyo 162 8640, Japan
Virology 341:301-12. 2005..These results indicate that the protein kinase activity of UL13 plays a role in viral replication in cell culture, but the activity is not essential for the optimal expression of UL41 and ICP0...
Construction of recombinant herpes simplex virus type I expressing green fluorescent protein without loss of any viral genesMichiko Tanaka
Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Disease, 1-23-1 Toyama, Sinjyuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan
Microbes Infect 6:485-93. 2004..ii) YK333 replicated as well as wild-type HSV-1 F strain in Vero cells. (iii) As one application of the recombinant YK333 for research on HSV-1, we developed a system to detect anti-..
Antiherpetic mode of action of (22S,23S)-3beta-bromo-5alpha,22,23-trihydroxystigmastan-6-one in vitroMónica B Wachsman
Laboratorio de Virologia, Departamento de Quimica Biologica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon 2, Piso 4, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Antimicrob Agents 23:524-6. 2004The replication of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 in Vero cells is inhibited in the presence of (22S,23S)-3beta-bromo-5alpha,22,23-trihydroxystigmastan-6-one (6b), a synthetic brassinosteroid derivative...
Suppression of herpes simplex virus 1 in MDBK cells via the interferon pathwayCristina Barreca
Marie Curie Research Institute, Oxted, The Chart, Surrey RH8 0TL, United Kingdom
J Virol 78:8641-53. 2004..Compared to Vero cells, MDBK cells supported a normal productive infection at a high multiplicity with complete cell destruction...
Herpes simplex virus type 1 ICP0 protein mediates activation of adeno-associated virus type 2 rep gene expression from a latent integrated formMarie-Claude Geoffroy
INSERM U649, , , , 30 Bd Jean Monnet, 1, 44035 Nantes Cedex 01, France
J Virol 78:10977-86. 2004....
Rapid determination of antiviral drug susceptibility of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 by real-time PCRThuong Nguyen Thi
Laboratoire de Virologie, , EA 2387, CERVI, , Paris 75013, France
Antiviral Res 69:152-7. 2006..The number of HSV DNA copies within Vero cells after 24 h infection was strongly correlated with the number of plaques obtained after 72 h infection...
Anti-herpes virus activity of Dunbaria bella PrainPannarat Akanitapichat
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ubon Ratchathani, Ubon Ratchathani 34190, Thailand
J Ethnopharmacol 105:64-8. 2006..Furthermore, the antiviral activity was dependent on multiplicity of infection and the type of host cell. Preliminary chemical analysis showed that Fr.372 contained neither phenolic compounds nor alkaloids...
Cell lines that support replication of a novel herpes simplex virus 1 UL31 deletion mutant can properly target UL34 protein to the nuclear rim in the absence of UL31Li Liang
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Virology 329:68-76. 2004..produced virus titers approximately 10- to 50-fold lower in rabbit skin cells, more than 2000-fold lower in Vero cells, and more than 1500-fold lower in CV1 cells, compared to a virus bearing a restored U(L)31 gene...
Replication of herpes simplex virus 1 depends on the gamma 134.5 functions that facilitate virus response to interferon and egress in the different stages of productive infectionXianghong Jing
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Virol 78:7653-66. 2004..These results indicate that efficient viral replication depends on the gamma(1)34.5 functions required to prevent the PKR response and to facilitate virus egress in the different stages during virus infection...
Herpes simplex virus type 1 gK is required for gB-mediated virus-induced cell fusion, while neither gB and gK nor gB and UL20p function redundantly in virion de-envelopmentJeffrey M Melancon
Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
J Virol 79:299-313. 2005..Both viruses formed small nonsyncytial plaques on noncomplementing Vero cells and large syncytial plaques on gK-complementing cells, indicating that gK expression was necessary for gBsyn3- ..
Contributions of the structural proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus to protective immunityUrsula J Buchholz
Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 8007, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:9804-9. 2004....
Anti-HSV activity of digitoxin and its possible mechanismsChun Ting Su
Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
Antiviral Res 79:62-70. 2008..The observation that digitoxin can inhibit acyclovir-resistant viruses further implicates that digitoxin represents a novel drug class with distinct antiviral mechanisms from traditional drugs...
The extracellular domain of herpes simplex virus gE is indispensable for efficient cell-to-cell spread: evidence for gE/gI receptorsKatarina Polcicova
L-220, Room 6366/BSc, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR 97239, USA
J Virol 79:11990-2001. 2005..This fits with similarities in structure and function of gE/gI and gD, which is a receptor binding protein...
Antiviral mode of action of a synthetic brassinosteroid against Junin virus replicationViviana Castilla
Laboratorio de Virologia, Departamento de Quimica Biologica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon 2, Piso 4, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Antiviral Res 68:88-95. 2005..22S,23S)-3beta-bromo-5alpha,22,23-trihydroxystigmastan-6-one (6b) against Junin virus replication in Vero cells was investigated. Time-related experiments showed that 6b mainly affects an early event of virus growth cycle...
Research Grants
- A SARS-CoV Spike Protein VaccineB Sim; Fiscal Year: 2005..Anti-sera will be assessed for antibodies to spike protein by ELISA and capacity to neutralize virus invasion of Vero cells in vitro...
- Developing a Paramyxovirus-based H5N1 VaccineBiao He; Fiscal Year: 2010..PIV5 can be produced in high titers (up to 8x108 plaque forming units (PFU)/ml) in many cells including Vero cells, which are WHO approved for vaccine production. PIV5 can infect human cell lines as well as primary human cells...
- Developing a Paramyxovirus-based H5N1 VaccineBiao He; Fiscal Year: 2009..PIV5 can be produced in high titers (up to 8x108 plaque forming units (PFU)/ml) in many cells including Vero cells, which are WHO approved for vaccine production. PIV5 can infect human cell lines as well as primary human cells...
- CHARACTERIZATION OF HCMV UL84Gregory Pari; Fiscal Year: 2009..In Vero cells, IE2 apparently represses a high basal level of activation from this promoter...
- ACTIN BASED MOTILITY BY RICKETTSIA RICKETTSIIROBERT HEINZEN; Fiscal Year: 2002..Transfected Vero cells producing specific domains of rOmpA or rOmpB, and infected with R...
- GLYCOLIPIDS AND HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROMEDavid Haslam; Fiscal Year: 2002..In preliminary studies VT-susceptible Vero cells were transfected with the cDNA encoding Forssman synthetase (FS)...
- STUDIES ON DIPHTHERIA TOXIN AND ITS RECEPTORLeon Eidels; Fiscal Year: 1990..fully and purify the specific diphtheria toxin-binding cell surface protein(s) from highly toxin-sensitive Vero cells. The diphtheria toxin-binding proteins are detected by i) prebinding toxin to extrinsically radiolabeled Vero ..
- CYTOMEGALOVIRUS DNA REPLICATION AND RECOMBINATIONEdward Mocarski; Fiscal Year: 1993..will be assayed by transfection of CMV-permissive human fibroblast and U373-MG cells as well as nonpermissive Vero cells and COS-7 cells, a cell line which will produce high levels of each of the products...
- Ab Alphavirus Replicon Vaccine against CytomegalovirusRobert Esch; Fiscal Year: 2005..Purified RNA transcripts produced from the replicon and helper plasmids will be electroporated into certified Vero cells using various amounts and electroporation parameters to identify the optimal conditions for transfection ..
- DIPHTHERIA TOXIN AND ITS RECEPTORLeon Eidels; Fiscal Year: 1993..to characterize fully the specific diphtheria toxin-binding cell surface protein(s) from highly toxin-sensitive Vero cells that function as the toxin receptor...
- Microcarrier culture system for human influenza vaccineWILLIAM HILLEGAS; Fiscal Year: 2004..integrate critical cell culture and viral growth parameters for optimal production of human influenza virus in Vero cells grown in Hillex microcarrier-suspension culture. Specific Aim II...
