Long-term infection passaging of Human Adenovirus 36 in monkey kidney cells
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https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202264068Keywords:
HAdV-36, Ad36, Vero cells, HAdV-36 long-term in vitro infectionAbstract
Human Adenovirus 36 (HAdV-36) has been related to diverse effects on metabolism and may attenuate the lipid accumulation in kidneys with increased adiposity. Some of these effects would be related to viral persistence. However, until now, a model of persistent in vitro infection by HAdV-36 is unknown. In this study, we examined the cells of the Vero lineage to explore their permissiveness to long-term HAdV-36 infection. HAdV-36 was productively replicated in Vero cells and maintained long-term infection for up to 35 cell passages. A subculture was obtained from the cells that survived the primary infection at a low MOI (0.5). The production of the extracellular infectious virus with titers ranging from 104 to 106 TCID50/mL and DNA-bearing cells was detected. In long-term infected cells, the intracellular distribution of viral antigen was demonstrated by performing immunolocalization (IFI) and expression of cell-viral antigen in 50% of cells by flow cytometry, using anti-HAdV-36 hyperimmune rabbit serum. Furthermore, E1a and E4orf1 genes in long-term infected passages showed a decreasing trend. Our preliminary results reveal that renal epithelial monkey cells are permissive for the productive infection of HAdV-36. Vero cell culture long-term infection might be a promising model for addressing the fundamental aspects of the HAdV-36 biology that cannot reveal broadly-used cultures, which do not maintain long-term infection in primary or transformed cells.
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Copyright (c) 2022 Patricia Alarcon-Valdes, Fabiola Sanchez-Aguillon, Fernando Martinez-Hernandez, Angelica Olivo-Diaz, Pablo Maravilla, Jonnathan Guadalupe Santillan-Benitez, Mirza Romero-Valdovinos
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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Grant numbers 792588