德罗斯菲拉的抗病毒免疫力需要系统性RNA干扰传播
Maria-Carla Saleh1, Michel Tassetto, Ronald P van Rij
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco 94122-2280, USA.
Nature
|February 11, 2009
概括
需要双链RNA (dsRNA) 吸收途径以获得有效的抗病毒免疫力. 这一途径使系统性RNA干扰 (RNAi) 反应成为可能,这对于对抗整个生物体的病毒感染至关重要.
科学领域:
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 病毒学 病毒学
背景情况:
- 多细胞生物拥有对病原体的复杂防御系统.
- 昆虫的抗病毒免疫力,特别是RNA干扰 (RNAi),以前被认为是一个局部化的,细胞自主过程.
- 免疫系统能够在局部和系统性地作出反应,这是一个关键特征.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究双链RNA (dsRNA) 吸收途径在Drosophila melanogaster抗病毒免疫中的作用.
- 为了确定的RNAi介导抗病毒防御是否能产生系统性反应.
主要方法:
- 产生突变的在dsRNA吸收途径中缺陷.
- 感染野生类型和突变的Drosophila C病毒和Sindbis病毒.
- 测量病毒标位和RNA水平.
- 用裸体dsRNA注射来评估免疫反应.
- 使用绿色光蛋白 (GFP) 标记的Sindbis病毒来追踪系统性影响.
主要成果:
- 缺乏dsRNA吸收途径的突变对病毒感染表现出过敏.
- 具有dsrna吸收缺陷的显示病毒载量显著增加 (100~10~5倍).
- 外源的dsRNA给药诱导了一种依赖于吸收途径的序列特异性抗病毒反应.
- 病毒感染导致远部位的宿主编码GFP的抑制,这表明系统信号传递.
结论:
- 一个dsRNA吸收途径对于成年有效的抗病毒RNA干扰免疫是必不可少的.
- dsRNA的系统传播对于建立全面的抗病毒防御至关重要.
- 中的抗病毒RNAi,就像脊椎动物的基于蛋白质的免疫力一样,依赖于免疫信号的系统传播.
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