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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2016

Wolbachia Modulates Lipid Metabolism in Aedes albopictus Mosquito Cells.

Jennifer C Molloy, Ulf Sommer, Mark R Viant, Steven P Sinkins

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers.

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78citing papers in PubMed
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78 citing papers in PubMed, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jennifer C MolloyNuffield Department of Medicine and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Ulf SommerNERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility-Metabolomics Node, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Mark R ViantNERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility-Metabolomics Node, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Steven P SinkinsNuffield Department of Medicine and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom s.sinkins@lancaster.ac.uk.
University of Birmingham · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H016511/1Medical Research Council MC_UU_12014/8Wellcome Trust WT095121
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledCertain strains of the intracellular endosymbiont Wolbachia can strongly inhibit or block the transmission of viruses such as dengue virus (DENV) by Aedes mosquitoes, and the mechanisms responsible are still not well understood. Direct infusion and liquid chromatography-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry-based lipidomics analyses were conducted using Aedes albopictus Aa23 cells that were infected with the wMel and wMelPop strains of Wolbachia in comparison to uninfected Aa23-T cells. Substantial shifts in the cellular lipid profile were apparent in the presence of Wolbachia Most significantly, almost all sphingolipid classes were depleted, and some reductions in diacylglycerols and phosphatidylcholines were also observed. These lipid classes have previously been shown to be selectively enriched in DENV-infected mosquito cells, suggesting that Wolbachia may produce a cellular lipid environment that is antagonistic to viral replication. The data improve our understanding of the intracellular interactions between Wolbachia and mosquitoes. IMPORTANCE: Mosquitoes transmit a variety of important viruses to humans, such as dengue virus and Zika virus. Certain strains of the intracellular bacterial genus called Wolbachia found in or introduced into mosquitoes can block the transmission of viruses, including dengue virus, but the mechanisms responsible are not well understood. We found substantial shifts in the cellular lipid profiles in the presence of these bacteria. Some lipid classes previously shown to be enriched in dengue virus-infected mosquito cells were depleted in the presence of Wolbachia, suggesting that Wolbachia may produce a cellular lipid environment that inhibits mosquito-borne viruses.

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Lipid MetabolismSymbiosisAedesAnimalsCell LineLipidsMass SpectrometryWolbachiaLipids

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PMID26994075
PMCPMC4959074
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