Use este identificador para citar o ir al link de este elemento: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/56405
Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: MicroRNA and cellular targets profiling reveal miR-217 and miR-576-3p as proviral factors during Oropouche infection
Autor(es): Victor Emmanuel Viana Geddes
Anibal Silva de Oliveira
Amilcar Tanuri
Eurico Arruda
Marcelo Ribeiro Alves
Renato Santana de Aguiar
Resumen: Oropouche Virus is the etiological agent of an arbovirus febrile disease that affects thousands of people and is widespread throughout Central and South American countries. Although isolated in 1950’s, still there is scarce information regarding the virus biology and its prevalence is likely underestimated. In order to identify and elucidate interactions with host cells factors and increase the understanding about the Oropouche Virus biology, we performed microRNA (miRNA) and target genes screening in human hepatocarcinoma cell line HuH-7. Cellular miRNAs are short non-coding RNAs that regulates gene expression post-transcriptionally and play key roles in several steps of viral infections. The large scale RT-qPCR based screening found 13 differentially expressed miRNAs in Oropouche infected cells. Further validation confirmed that miR-217 and miR-576-3p were 5.5 fold up-regulated at early stages of virus infection (6 hours post-infection). Using bioinformatics and pathway enrichment analysis, we predicted the cellular targets genes for miR-217 and miR-576-3p. Differential expression analysis of RNA from 95 selected targets revealed genes involved in innate immunity modulation, viral release and neurological disorder outcomes. Further analysis revealed the gene of decapping protein 2 (DCP2), a previous known restriction factor for bunyaviruses transcription, as a miR-217 candidate target that is progressively down-regulated during Oropouche infection. Our analysis also showed that activators genes involved in innate immune response through IFN-βpathway, as STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) and TRAF3 (TNF-Receptor Associated Factor 3), were down-regulated as the infection progress. Inhibition of miR-217 or miR-576-3p restricts OROV replication, decreasing viral RNA (up to 8.3 fold) and virus titer (3 fold). Finally, we showed that virus escape IFN-βmediated immune response increasing the levels of cellular miR-576-3p resulting in a decreasing of its partners STING and TRAF3. We concluded stating that the present study, the first for a Peribunyaviridae member, gives insights in its prospective pathways that could help to understand virus biology, interactions with host cells and pathogenesis, suggesting that the virus escapes the antiviral cellular pathways increasing the expression of cognates miRNAs.
Asunto: Virus de RNA
América do Sul
América Central
Idioma: por
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: ICB - INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLOGICAS
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006508
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/56405
Fecha del documento: 2018
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006508
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Aparece en las colecciones:Artigo de Periódico

archivos asociados a este elemento:
archivo Descripción TamañoFormato 
file.pdf6.21 MBAdobe PDFVisualizar/Abrir


Los elementos en el repositorio están protegidos por copyright, con todos los derechos reservados, salvo cuando es indicado lo contrario.