(*contributed equally to this work) 发布: 2018年05月05日第8卷第9期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2830 浏览次数: 9145
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Abstract
Viruses infect their host cells to produce progeny virus particles through the sequential steps of the viral life cycle, such as viral attachment, entry, penetration and post-entry events. This protocol describes time-of-addition and temperature-shift assays that are employed to explore which step(s) in the viral life cycle is blocked by an antiviral substance(s).
Keywords: Viral life cycle (病毒生命周期)Background
Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that hijack host cell machineries to replicate their own genome. The viral life cycle proceeds through the attachment (binding) of an infectious viral particle (virion) to the surface of the host cell and its penetration (internalization, fusion) into intracellular compartments, where virion uncoating (disassembly) takes place, followed by viral genome transcription/replication, viral protein synthesis and virion assembly, which eventually results in the production and release of progeny virions from the infected cell (Scheel and Rice, 2013).
To explore which step(s) of the viral lifecycle is blocked by an antiviral substance, time-of-drug addition experiments are performed. In brief, an antiviral substance is added to the virus and/or host cells at different time points relative to viral inoculation to the cells (Chen et al., 2017): (1) Pre-treatment of the cells with an antiviral substance before viral inoculation examines whether the substance could block the viral receptor to inhibit viral attachment to the host cells or if it could induce production of antiviral host factors, such as interferon. (2) Pre-treatment of virus followed by inoculation of the treated virus to the cells examines the virucidal or neutralizing activity of the antiviral substance. (3) Co-treatment of cells and virus during virus inoculation examines the antiviral effect on the virus entry steps including virucidal (neutralizing) activity and blockade of viral attachment and penetration to the cells. (4) Treatment of virus-infected cells during the entire post-inoculation period examines the antiviral effect during the post-entry steps, such as genome translation and replication, virion assembly and virion release from the cells. In addition, temperature-shift assay can differentiate between (5) antiviral activity against attachment that occurs at both 37 °C and 4 °C and (6) antiviral activity against penetration (internalization and/or fusion) that occurs only at 37 °C. An interesting example is that secreted phospholipase A2 obtained from bee venom inhibits penetration of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virion without inhibiting virion attachment to the cell surface (Fenard et al., 1999).
In this article, we describe procedures of time-of-addition and temperature-shift assays for the mechanistic analyses of antiviral substances using a fluorescent antibody (FA) method, which have been reported elsewhere (Wahyuni et al., 2013; Adianti et al., 2014; Ratnoglik et al., 2014; El-Bitar et al., 2015; Apriyanto et al., 2016; Chen et al., 2017). Alternative titration methods, such as plaque assay, 50% tissue culture infectious dose (TCID50) assay and quantitative PCR (qPCR and qRT-PCR), are also used to determine viral titers as described elsewhere.
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Aoki-Utsubo, C., Chen, M. and Hotta, H. (2018). Time-of-addition and Temperature-shift Assays to Determine Particular Step(s) in the Viral Life Cycle that is Blocked by Antiviral Substance(s). Bio-protocol 8(9): e2830. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2830.
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微生物学 > 抗微生物试验 > 抗病毒试验
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