Cyclosporine Inhibits Mouse Cytomegalovirus Infection Via a Cyclophilin-dependent Pathway Specifically in Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells.
From: Department of Pathology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan. gloria@hama-med.ac.jp
Journal of virology
- Publish Date: Sep 2007
- ISSN: 0022-538X
- Volume: 81
- Issue: 17
- Pages: 9013-23
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Kawasaki Hideya, Mocarski Edward S, Kosugi Isao, et al. Cyclosporine Inhibits Mouse Cytomegalovirus Infection Via a Cyclophilin-dependent Pathway Specifically in Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells.. J. Virol. Sep 2007;81:9013-23
Abstract
The potential of neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) transplantation in neurodegenerative disease raises a concern about immunosuppressive agents and opportunistic neurotropic pathogens that may interfere with engraftment. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an important opportunistic pathogen infecting the central nervous system, where it may remain latent for life, following transplacental transmission. Cyclosporine (Cs), an immunosuppressive drug used in organ transplantation, where its use is associated with CMV reactivation, suppressed murine CMV (MCMV) infection in cultured NSPCs but not in fibroblasts. This activity of Cs appears to be mediated via cyclophilin (CyP) rather than via calcineurin. First, the calcineurin-specific inhibitor FK506 failed to suppress replication. Second, the CyP-specific inhibitor NIM811 strongly suppressed replication in NSPC. NSPCs maintained in the presence of NIM811 retained viral genomes for several weeks without detectable viral gene expression or obvious deleterious effects. The withdrawal of NIM811 reactivated viral replication, suggesting that the inhibitory mechanism was reversible. Finally, inhibition of endogenous CyP A (CyPA) by small interfering RNA also inhibited replication in NSPCs. These results show that MCMV replication depends upon cellular CyPA pathways in NSPCs (in a specific cell type-dependent fashion), that CyPA plays an important role in viral infection in this cell type, and that inhibition of viral replication via CyP leads to persistence of the viral genome without cell damage. Further, the calcineurin-signaling pathway conferring immunosuppression in T cells does not influence viral replication in a detectable fashion.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Antiviral Agents, Cells, Cultured, Cyclophilins, Cyclosporine, DNA, Viral, Gene Silencing, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Muromegalovirus, RNA, Small Interfering, Stem Cells, Virus Replication
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