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ArticleScientific reports2016

The small noncoding RNAs (sncRNAs) of murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV-68) are involved in regulating the latent-to-lytic switch in vivo.

Beatrix Steer, Martin Strehle, Christine Sattler, Dagmar Bund, Britta Flach, Tobias Stoeger, Jürgen G Haas, Heiko Adler

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Beatrix SteerComprehensive Pneumology Center, Research Unit Lung Repair and Regeneration, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Marchioninistrasse 25, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
Martin StrehleComprehensive Pneumology Center, Research Unit Lung Repair and Regeneration, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Marchioninistrasse 25, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
Christine SattlerComprehensive Pneumology Center, Research Unit Lung Repair and Regeneration, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Marchioninistrasse 25, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
Dagmar BundComprehensive Pneumology Center, Research Unit Lung Repair and Regeneration, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Marchioninistrasse 25, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
Britta FlachComprehensive Pneumology Center, Research Unit Lung Repair and Regeneration, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Marchioninistrasse 25, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
Tobias StoegerInstitute of Lung Biology and Disease, Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
Jürgen G HaasDivision of Infection and Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK.
Heiko AdlerComprehensive Pneumology Center, Research Unit Lung Repair and Regeneration, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Marchioninistrasse 25, D-81377 Munich, Germany.
Helmholtz Zentrum München · DEUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0501453
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human gammaherpesviruses Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), which are associated with a variety of diseases including tumors, produce various small noncoding RNAs (sncRNAs) such as microRNAs (miRNAs). Like all herpesviruses, they show two stages in their life cycle: lytic replication and latency. During latency, hardly any viral proteins are expressed to avoid recognition by the immune system. Thus, sncRNAs might be exploited since they are less likely to be recognized. Specifically, it has been proposed that sncRNAs might contribute to the maintenance of latency. This has already been shown in vitro, but the respective evidence in vivo is very limited. A natural model system to explore this question in vivo is infection of mice with murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV-68). We used this model to analyze a MHV-68 mutant lacking the expression of all miRNAs. In the absence of the miRNAs, we observed a higher viral genomic load during late latency in the spleens of mice. We propose that this is due to a disturbed regulation of the latent-to-lytic switch, altering the balance between latent and lytic infection. Hence, we provide for the first time evidence that gammaherpesvirus sncRNAs contribute to the maintenance of latency in vivo.

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AnimalsCricetinaeHerpesviridae InfectionsMiceNIH 3T3 CellsRhadinovirusRNA, Small UntranslatedRNA, ViralVirus LatencyRNA, Small UntranslatedRNA, Viral

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PMID27561205
PMCPMC4999806
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