BVDV: A pestivirus inducing tolerance of the innate immune response
BVDV: A pestivirus inducing tolerance of the innate immune response
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DOI:
10.1016/j.biologicals.2012.07.006
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2013-01-01
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1.7
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Schweizer, Matthias
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作者:
Peterhans, Ernst;Schweizer, Matthias
Animals persistently infected (PI) with bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) retain a strain-specific B- and T-cell immunotolerance. Pestiviral RNA triggers interferon (IFN) synthesis, and the viral RNase E-rns inhibits IFN expression induced by extracellular viral RNA. In addition, N-pro promotes the degradation of the transcription factor IRF-3, which effectively blocks IFN expression in BVDV-infected cells. As not all the potential target cells are infected in PI animals, these are 'chimeric' with respect to BVDV. This suggests that N-pro and E-rns are non-redundant IFN antagonists that act in infected and non-infected cells, respectively. Moreover, E-rns may take a paradoxical function, both as virulence as well as "attenuation" factor: The former by preventing the activation of the innate and, consequently, of the adaptive immune system, the latter by minimizing the detrimental effects of systemic IFN production. Thus, BVDV maintains "self-tolerance" by avoiding the induction of IFN while itself being largely resistant to it without, however, interfering with the IFN action against unrelated viruses ('nonself'). This unique extension of 'self' to a virus suggests that the host's own RNases may have evolved as a guard against inadvertent activation of the innate immune system by host RNA, thus establishing a state of "innate tolerance". (C) 2012 The International Alliance for Biological Standardization. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.