Project description:Human monocyte-derived macrophage cells were infected with Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) to identify and quantify intracellular transcriptional changes that contribute to the host response to infection with CHIKV. RNA was collected from these cells at 8 and 24 hours post-infection (hpi) and were compared to mock-infected cells. The RNAseq data was then analyzed to determine the genes, functions, and signaling pathways that were significantly affected in an effort to predict existing drugs that could be repurposed as potential therapeutics for CHIKV.

2022-03-02 | GSE182287 | GEO

Altered brain pathways following Chikungunya virus infection

Project description:A kinetic analysis of host proteome modifications in the brain of CHIKV-infected mice sampled before and after the onset of clinical symptoms was performed. The combination of 2D-DIGE and iTRAQ proteomic approaches, followed by mass spectrometry protein identification, revealed 177 significantly differentially expressed proteins. This kinetic analysis was characterized by a dramatic down-regulation of proteins prior the appearance of the clinical symptoms followed by an increase expression of a large part of these proteins in the acute phase of symptoms. Bioinformatic analysis of the protein dataset allowed to identify major biological processes altered during the time course of CHIKV infection such as integrin signaling and cytoskeleton dynamics, endosome machinery and receptor recycling related to virus transport and synapse function, regulation of gene expression, and ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. This work gives new information on putative mechanisms that could be associated with severe neurological CHIKV infection-mediated disease. It also describes possible markers or targets that can be used to develop diagnostic and/or antiviral tools.

2015-07-07 | PXD000736 | Pride

Antibody-mediated enhancement aggravates chikungunya virus infection and disease severity.

Project description: Not available

| S-EPMC5789897 | biostudies-other