Kallewaard Nicole L, Zhang Lili, Chen Jin-Wen, Guttenberg Marta, Sanchez Melissa D, Bergelson Jeffrey M
Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Cell Host Microbe. 2009 Jul 23;6(1):91-8. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2009.05.018.
In cultured cells, infection by group B coxsackievirus (CVB) is mediated by the coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR), but the importance of this molecule in CVB-induced disease has not been determined. We generated mice with tissue-specific ablation of CAR within each of two major CVB target organs, the pancreas and heart. In the pancreas, deletion of CAR resulted in a significant reduction in both virus titers and virus-induced tissue damage. Similarly, cardiomyocyte-specific CAR deletion resulted in a marked reduction in virus titer, infection-associated cytokine production, and histopathology within the heart. Consistent with the in vivo phenotype, CAR-deficient cardiomyocytes resisted infection in vitro. These results demonstrate a critical function for CAR in the pathogenesis of CVB infection in vivo and in virus tropism for the heart and pancreas.
在培养细胞中,B组柯萨奇病毒(CVB)的感染由柯萨奇病毒和腺病毒受体(CAR)介导,但该分子在CVB诱导疾病中的重要性尚未确定。我们构建了在两个主要CVB靶器官(胰腺和心脏)中每个器官内CAR组织特异性缺失的小鼠。在胰腺中,CAR的缺失导致病毒滴度和病毒诱导的组织损伤均显著降低。同样,心肌细胞特异性CAR缺失导致心脏内病毒滴度、感染相关细胞因子产生和组织病理学显著降低。与体内表型一致,CAR缺陷的心肌细胞在体外抵抗感染。这些结果证明了CAR在体内CVB感染发病机制以及心脏和胰腺的病毒嗜性中起关键作用。