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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2021

Persistent RNA virus infection is short-lived at the single-cell level but leaves transcriptomic footprints.

Peter Reuther, Katrin Martin, Mario Kreutzfeldt, Matias Ciancaglini, Florian Geier, Diego Calabrese, Doron Merkler, Daniel D Pinschewer

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Peter Reuther *Department of Biomedicine, Division of Experimental Virology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5198-8165
Katrin Martin *Department of Biomedicine, Division of Experimental Virology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8958-5492
Mario KreutzfeldtDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Clinical Pathology, Geneva Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University and University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0335-2733
Matias CiancagliniDepartment of Biomedicine, Division of Experimental Virology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1296-5606
Florian GeierDepartment of Biomedicine, Bioinformatics Core Facility, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9076-9264
Diego CalabreseDepartment of Biomedicine, Histology Core Facility, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0259-8611
Doron MerklerDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Clinical Pathology, Geneva Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University and University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0247-2007
Daniel D PinschewerDepartment of Biomedicine, Division of Experimental Virology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1594-3189
University of Basel · CHUniversity Hospital of Basel · CHUniversity Hospital of Geneva · CH

Funding

European Research Council 865026Swiss National Science Foundation 310030_173132Swiss National Science Foundation 310030B_201271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several RNA viruses can establish life-long persistent infection in mammalian hosts, but the fate of individual virus-infected cells remains undefined. Here we used Cre recombinase-encoding lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus to establish persistent infection in fluorescent cell fate reporter mice. Virus-infected hepatocytes underwent spontaneous noncytolytic viral clearance independently of type I or type II interferon signaling or adaptive immunity. Viral clearance was accompanied by persistent transcriptomic footprints related to proliferation and extracellular matrix remodeling, immune responses, and metabolism. Substantial overlap with persistent epigenetic alterations in HCV-cured patients suggested a universal RNA virus-induced transcriptomic footprint. Cell-intrinsic clearance occurred in cell culture, too, with sequential infection, reinfection cycles separated by a period of relative refractoriness to infection. Our study reveals that systemic persistence of a prototypic noncytolytic RNA virus depends on continuous spread and reinfection. Yet undefined cell-intrinsic mechanisms prevent viral persistence at the single-cell level but give way to profound transcriptomic alterations in virus-cleared cells.

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Adaptive ImmunityAnimalsArenaviridae InfectionsChlorocebus aethiopsGene Expression ProfilingHEK293 CellsHepatocytesHumansInterferonsLymphocytic choriomeningitis virusMice, TransgenicReinfectionSingle-Cell AnalysisVero CellsViral LoadViral ProteinsInterferonsViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID34398180
PMCPMC8493862
OpenAlexW3194281895

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