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ArticleJournal of virology2017

Nonstructural Protein L* Species Specificity Supports a Mouse Origin for Vilyuisk Human Encephalitis Virus.

Melissa Drappier, Fred R Opperdoes, Thomas Michiels

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Article in Journal of virology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa DrappierUniversité Catholique de Louvain, de Duve Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
Fred R OpperdoesUniversité Catholique de Louvain, de Duve Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
Thomas MichielsUniversité Catholique de Louvain, de Duve Institute, Brussels, Belgium thomas.michiels@uclouvain.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9615-8053
de Duve Institute · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vilyuisk human encephalitis virus (VHEV) is a picornavirus related to Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV). VHEV was isolated from human material passaged in mice. Whether this VHEV is of human or mouse origin is therefore unclear. We took advantage of the species-specific activity of the nonstructural L* protein of theiloviruses to track the origin of TMEV isolates. TMEV L* inhibits RNase L, the effector enzyme of the interferon pathway. By using coimmunoprecipitation and functional RNase L assays, the species specificity of RNase L antagonism was tested for L* from mouse (DA) and rat (RTV-1) TMEV strains as well as for VHEV. Coimmunoprecipitation and functional assay data confirmed the species specificity of L* activity and showed that L* from rat strain RTV-1 inhibited rat but not mouse or human RNase L. Next, we showed that the VHEV L* protein was phylogenetically related to L* of mouse viruses and that it failed to inhibit human RNase L but readily antagonized mouse RNase L, unambiguously showing the mouse origin of VHEV.

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Species SpecificityAnimalsEncephalitis VirusesEndoribonucleasesHumansMicePicornaviridaeRatsViral Nonstructural Proteins2-5A-dependent ribonucleaseEndoribonucleasesViral Nonstructural ProteinsL* proteinmitochondrianatural hostRNase Lspecies specificityTheiler's murine encephalomyelitis virusVilyuisk human encephalitis virus

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PMID28446680
PMCPMC5487572
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