ArticleMicrobiology spectrum2022
Enterovirus D68 Infection in Human Primary Airway and Brain Organoids: No Additional Role for Heparan Sulfate Binding for Neurotropism.
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- Non-polio enterovirus infection and electrophysiological changes in human iPSC-derived neural networks.EBioMedicine · 2026Article
- Enterovirus D68 receptor usage: from static attachment to dynamic entry.Journal of virology · 2026Review
- Subclade B3 and D3 enterovirus D68 among children with severe community-acquired pneumonia in China, 2021 to 2024.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Non-polio enteroviruses compromise the electrophysiology of a human iPSC-derived neural network.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Sialic Acid-Containing Glycolipids Extend the Receptor Repertoire of Enterovirus-D68.ACS infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Advances in the Treatment of Enterovirus-D68 and Rhinovirus Respiratory Infections.Infectious disease reports · 2025Review
- Ex vivo study of neuroinvasive and neurotropic viruses: what is current and what is next.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Parechovirus infection in human brain organoids: host innate inflammatory response and not neuro-infectivity correlates to neurologic disease.Nature communications · 2024Article
- SARS-CoV-2 and oncolytic EV-D68-encoded proteases differentially regulate pyroptosis.Journal of virology · 2024Article
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- Pathogenesis of enterovirus infection in central nervous system.Biosafety and health · 2023Review
- Human brain microphysiological systems in the study of neuroinfectious disorders.Experimental neurology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is an RNA virus that can cause outbreaks of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), a polio-like disease. Before 2010, EV-D68 was a rare pathogen associated with mild respiratory symptoms, but the recent EV-D68 related increase in severe respiratory illness and outbreaks of AFP is not yet understood. An explanation for the rise in severe disease is that it may be due to changes in the viral genome resulting in neurotropism. In this regard, in addition to sialic acid, binding to heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) has been identified as a feature for viral entry of some EV-D68 strains in cell lines. Studies in human primary organotypic cultures that recapitulate human physiology will address the relevance of these HSPG-binding mutations for EV-D68 infection in vivo. Therefore, in this work, we studied the replication and neurotropism of previously determined sialic acid-dependent and HSPG-dependent strains using primary human airway epithelial (HAE) cultures and induced human pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived brain organoids. All three strains (B2/2042, B2/947, and A1/1348) used in this study infected HAE cultures and human brain organoids (shown for the first time). Receptor-blocking experiments in both cultures confirm that B2/2042 infection is solely dependent on sialic acid, while B2/947 and A1/1348 (HSPG to a lesser extent) binds to sialic acid and HSPG for cell entry. Our data suggest that HSPG-binding can be used by EV-D68 for entry in human physiological models but offers no advantage for EV-D68 infection of brain cells.
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