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ArticleJournal of virology2010

Culturing the unculturable: human coronavirus HKU1 infects, replicates, and produces progeny virions in human ciliated airway epithelial cell cultures.

Krzysztof Pyrc, Amy C Sims, Ronald Dijkman, Maarten Jebbink, Casey Long, Damon Deming, Eric Donaldson, Astrid Vabret, Ralph Baric, Lia van der Hoek and 1 more

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Article in Journal of virology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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109citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

109 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 150 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Krzysztof PyrcMicrobiology Department, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Amy C Sims
Ronald Dijkman
Maarten Jebbink
Casey Long
Damon Deming
Eric Donaldson
Astrid Vabret
Ralph Baric
Lia van der Hoek
Raymond Pickles
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Amsterdam · NLAcademic Medical Center · NLHôpital Georges-Clemenceau · FRJagiellonian University · PL

Funding

Yessinia autotransporters (Yaps): Structure, function, and host responseU54AI057157 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CROWE, JAMES E · 2003 to 2013
$91.4M
CFTR Delivery to Ciliated Airway Cells by PIV VectorsR01HL077844 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PICKLES, RAYMOND J · 2005 to 2009
$1.9M
Targeted Gene Expression from NL63 Vaccine VectorsR21AI079521 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SIMS, AMY C · 2008 to 2010
$490k
Human Coronaviruses as Multigene Mucosal Vaccine Vectors for HIVR21AI076159 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SIMS, AMY C · 2008 to 2009
$421k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL077844NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL77844NIAID NIH HHS AI079521NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI076159NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI079521NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI057157NIAID NIH HHS U54-AI057157
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Culturing newly identified human lung pathogens from clinical sample isolates can represent a daunting task, with problems ranging from low levels of pathogens to the presence of growth suppressive factors in the specimens, compounded by the lack of a suitable tissue culture system. However, it is critical to develop suitable in vitro platforms to isolate and characterize the replication kinetics and pathogenesis of recently identified human pathogens. HCoV-HKU1, a human coronavirus identified in a clinical sample from a patient with severe pneumonia, has been a major challenge for successful propagation on all immortalized cells tested to date. To determine if HCoV-HKU1 could replicate in in vitro models of human ciliated airway epithelial cell cultures (HAE) that recapitulate the morphology, biochemistry, and physiology of the human airway epithelium, the apical surfaces of HAE were inoculated with a clinical sample of HCoV-HKU1 (Cean1 strain). High virus yields were found for several days postinoculation and electron micrograph, Northern blot, and immunofluorescence data confirmed that HCoV-HKU1 replicated efficiently within ciliated cells, demonstrating that this cell type is infected by all human coronaviruses identified to date. Antiserum directed against human leukocyte antigen C (HLA-C) failed to attenuate HCoV-HKU1 infection and replication in HAE, suggesting that HLA-C is not required for HCoV-HKU1 infection of the human ciliated airway epithelium. We propose that the HAE model provides a ready platform for molecular studies and characterization of HCoV-HKU1 and in general serves as a robust technology for the recovery, amplification, adaptation, and characterization of novel coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses from clinical material.

Indexed as

Cell Culture TechniquesCells, CulturedCoronavirusEpithelial CellsHLA-C AntigensHumansModels, BiologicalRespiratory SystemVirionVirus InternalizationVirus ReplicationHLA-C Antigens

Identifiers

PMID20719951
PMCPMC2953148
OpenAlexW2136461776

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