Cadwell Ken
Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
J Virol. 2015 Feb;89(4):1951-3. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02966-14. Epub 2014 Dec 10.
Viruses affect host physiology beyond causing acute disease, thereby giving rise to the concept that the virome is a component of the microbiome. However, the role of the enteric virome is understudied relative to the fast-paced research examining commensal bacteria in the intestine. In this article, I discuss our recent work on murine norovirus indicating that an animal virus in the intestine can provide many of the signals to the host that have been attributed to commensal bacteria. Our findings suggest that the surge in microbiome research should incorporate examination of the enteric virome.
病毒对宿主生理的影响不仅限于引发急性疾病,从而催生了病毒组是微生物组组成部分的概念。然而,相对于对肠道共生细菌的快节奏研究,肠道病毒组的作用尚未得到充分研究。在本文中,我将讨论我们最近关于小鼠诺如病毒的研究工作,该研究表明肠道中的动物病毒可以向宿主提供许多归因于共生细菌的信号。我们的研究结果表明,微生物组研究的热潮应纳入对肠道病毒组的研究。