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- Blomström, Anne-Lie
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Non-Structural Proteins of Arthropod-Borne Bunyaviruses: Roles and Functions
- 2013
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Ingår i: Viruses. - : MDPI AG. - 1999-4915. ; 5, s. 2447-2468
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Viruses within the Bunyaviridae family are tri-segmented, negative-stranded RNA viruses. The family includes several emerging and re-emerging viruses of humans, animals and plants, such as Rift Valley fever virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, La Crosse virus, Schmallenberg virus and tomato spotted wilt virus. Many bunyaviruses are arthropod-borne, so-called arboviruses. Depending on the genus, bunyaviruses encode, in addition to the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and the different structural proteins, one or several non-structural proteins. These non-structural proteins are not always essential for virus growth and replication but can play an important role in viral pathogenesis through their interaction with the host innate immune system. In this review, we will summarize current knowledge and understanding of insect-borne bunyavirus non-structural protein function(s) in vertebrate, plant and arthropod.
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- Johansson Wensman, Jonas, et al.
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The X proteins of bornaviruses interfere with type I interferon signalling
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Ingår i: Journal of General Virology. - : Microbiology Society. - 0022-1317 .- 1465-2099. ; 94, s. 263-269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Borna disease virus (BDV) is a neurotropic, negative-stranded RNA virus causing persistent infection and progressive neurological disorders in a wide range of warm-blooded animals. The role of the small non-structural X protein in viral pathogenesis is not completely understood. Here we investigated whether the X protein of BDV and avian bornavirus (ABV) interferes with the type I interferon (IFN) system, similar to other non-structural proteins of negative-stranded RNA viruses. In luciferase reporter assays, we found that the X protein of various bornaviruses interfered with the type I IFN system at all checkpoints investigated, in contrast to previously reported findings, resulting in reduced type I IFN secretion.
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- Blomström, Anne-Lie, et al.
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Serological markers of Bornavirus infection found in horses in Iceland
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Ingår i: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0044-605X .- 1751-0147. ; 55
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conclusions: This report contains the first evidence of antibodies to Borna disease virus in Iceland. Whether Borna disease virus was the cause of the neurological signs could however not be confirmed by pathology or molecular detection of the virus. As Iceland has very restricted legislation regarding animal imports, the questions of how this virus has entered the country and to what extent markers of Bornavirus infection can be found in humans and animals in Iceland remain to be answered.
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- Berg, Mikael, et al.
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Single primer isothermal amplification (SPIA) combined with next generation sequencing provides complete bovine coronavirus genome coverage and higher sequence depth compared to sequence-independent single primer amplification (SISPA)
- 2017
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Ingår i: PLoS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Coronaviruses are of major importance for both animal and human health. With the emergence of novel coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS, the need for fast genome characterisation is ever so important. Further, in order to understand the influence of quasispecies of these viruses in relation to biology, techniques for deep-sequence and full-length viral genome analysis are needed. In the present study, we compared the efficiency of two sequence-independent approaches [sequence-independent single primer amplification (SISPA) and single primer isothermal amplification (SPIA, represented by the Ovation kit)] coupled with high throughput sequencing to generate the full-length genome of bovine coronavirus (BCoV) from a nasal swab. Both methods achieved high genome coverage (100% for SPIA and 99% for SISPA), however, there was a clear difference in the percentage of reads that mapped to BCoV. While approximately 45% of the Ovation reads mapped to BCoV (sequence depth of 169-284 944), only 0.07% of the SISPA reads (sequence depth of 0-249) mapped to the reference genome. Although BCoV was the focus of the study we also identified a bovine rhinitis B virus (BRBV) in the data sets. The trend for this virus was similar to that observed for BCoV regarding Ovation vs. SISPA, but with fewer sequences mapping to BRBV due to a lower amount of this virus. In summary, the SPIA approach used in this study produced coverage of the entire BCoV (high copy number) and BRBV (low copy number) and a high sequence/genome depth compared to SISPA. Although this is a limited study, the results indicate that the Ovation method could be a preferred approach for full genome sequencing if a low copy number of viral RNA is expected and if high sequence depth is desired.
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- Blomström, Anne-Lie
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Applications of viral metagenomics in the veterinary field : looking for the unknown
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Viral metagenomics provide a powerful technology to investigate the viral flora of healthy and sick animals. Using these methodologies, we gain a better understanding in the etiology of diseases, as well as deepen our knowledge into the viruses circulating in nature and the complex interaction between virus and host. The aim of this thesis was to utilize viral metagenomics into different areas of interest for veterinary science. One multifactorial disease complex was studied, as were a disease of unknown etiology, where traditional methods had failed to identify a causative agent. The final study was on viruses in an arthropod vector. Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) was the multifactorial disease chosen here. Though, porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) has been found the causative agent other factors, such as viruses, are believed to influence the disease. Using multiple displacement amplification followed by large-scale sequencing we discovered, apart from PCV-2 and torque teno virus, a novel porcine bocavirus in the background of PCV-2 in lymph nodes collected from pigs suffering from PMWS. This co-infection was seen in a high percentage (71%) of pigs suffering from PMWS compared to only 33% in pigs without PMWS. Shaking mink syndrome (SMS) was used to investigate a disease of unknown etiology. By random amplification and large-scale sequencing we found an astrovirus in the brain of minks experimentally infected with brain homogenate from diseased animals. Astrovirus was also detected in the brain of naturally infected minks. Vectors are important transmitters of disease, and in the final study, soft ticks (Ornithodoros) collected from a warthog burrow in Uganda were investigated for the presence of viruses. Among others, we discovered a possible novel RNA virus that showed a distant relationship to hepatitis E virus. In conclusion, viral metagenomics have successfully been applied to investigate three important areas for veterinary science and through these studies three novel viruses were discovered and genetically characterized.
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- Blomström, Anne-Lie, et al.
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Development of a real-time RT-PCR method for detection of porcine rubulavirus (PoRV-LPMV)
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Virological Methods. - : Elsevier BV. - 0166-0934 .- 1879-0984. ; 189, s. 1-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to provide a rapid and sensitive method for detection of the Porcine rubulavirus La Piedad-Michoacan-Mexico Virus (PoRV-LPMV), we have developed a specific real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay. The detection of PoRV-LPMV, represents a diagnostic challenge due to the viral RNA being present in very small amounts in tissue samples. In this study, a TaqMan (R) real-time PCR assay was designed based on the phosphoprotein gene of PoRV-LPMV, to allow specific amplification and detection of viral RNA in clinical samples. Assay conditions for the primers and probe were optimized using infected PK15 cells and ten-fold serial dilutions of a plasmid containing the whole P-gene. The sensitivity of the developed TaqMan assay was approximately 10 plasmid copies per reaction, and was shown to be 1000 fold better than a conventional nested RT-PCR. The performance of this real-time RT-PCR method enables studies of various aspects of PoRV-LPMV infection. Finally, the assay detects all current known variants of the virus. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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