Project description:The human coronavirus OC43 is responsible for 15-30% of seasonal “common cold” infections with typically mild respiratory symptoms. We demonstrated that the coronavirus OC43 derived small peptide encoded by the viral p65 proteins may exhibit molecular mimicry with the pro-algesic fragment of Myelin Basic Protein (MBP). After intrasciatic injection, the p65-derived peptide induced robust pain hypersensitivity in rats lasting for up to 21 days. Transcriptomic analysis at day 21 revealed extensive spinal up-regulation of pro-nociceptive genes. Strikingly, genome-wide isoform switching due to activation of transcriptional start sites and alternative splicing events has occurred. We hypothesized that the coronavirus-derived peptides can dysregulate MBP function in the PNS/CNS and promote neuropathic chronic pain. Our findings offer paradigm-shifting mechanistic understanding of the viral origin of idiopathic neurological effects including chronic neuropathic pain, a condition currently refractory to therapeutic treatment. This new knowledge will lead to new diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic approaches to benefit patients with chronic pain.
Project description:This study reports a screen to identify putative inhibitors of the eIF4F complex for potential effects on blocking coronavirus replication, using HCoV-OC43 (OC43) infection of Vero E6 cells and the lung epithelial cancer line A549 as models.
Project description:This study reports a screen to identify putative inhibitors of the eIF4F complex for potential effects on blocking coronavirus replication, using HCoV-OC43 (OC43) infection of Vero E6 cells and the lung epithelial cancer line A549 as models.
Project description:The coronavirus HCoV-OC43 circulates continuously in the human population and is a frequent cause of the common cold. Here, we generated a high-resolution atlas of the transcriptional and translational landscape of OC43 at various timepoints following infection of human lung fibroblasts. Using ribosome profiling, we quantified the relative expression of the canonical open reading frames (ORFs) and identified several unannotated ORFs, including short upstream ORFs and a putative ORF nested inside the M gene. In parallel, we analyzed the cellular response to infection. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response genes are transcriptionally and translationally induced, but conventional antiviral genes remain mostly suppressed. At the same time, we observed widespread aberrant translation across cellular transcripts, including over 3′UTRs and of noncoding transcripts normally targeted by the nonsense mediated decay pathway. Taken together, our work provides a genomic resource for further study of OC43 and the cellular response to infection.
Project description:Differential expression was determined in Calu-3 cells between mock infected and infection with either Human coronavirus EMC and SARS coronavirus at different times post infection. Calu-3 2B4 cells were infected with Human Coronavirus EMC 2012 (HCoV-EMC) or mock infected. Samples were collected 0, 3, 7, 12, 18 and 24 hpi. There are 3 mock and 3 infected replicates for each time point, except for 12 hpi for which there are only 2 infected replicates (one replicate did not pass RNA quality check). There were no mock sampes at 18 hpi, and therefore infected samples at 18 hpi were compared with mocks at 24 hpi. For direct comparison with SARS-CoV infected cells, raw data from HCoV-EMC experiments were quantile normalized together with the SARS-CoV dataset (GEO Series accession number GSE33267).
Project description:Understanding how human coronavirus dysregulate host proteome during infection in human cells will identify general pathways that are common to coronavirus infection. NMS-873 is an allosteric p97/VCP ATPase inhibitor and was show to have antiviral effect in multiple viruses including SARS-CoV2. We first demonstrated that genetic knock down of p97 reduced HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43 infection and secretion. To investigate how p97/VCP assists virus infection, we used unbiased quantitative proteomics to compare dysregulated proteomes caused by HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43 and SARS-CoV2 infection. We then compared dysregulated proteomes after HCoV-229E and HCoV-OC43 infection with and without p97 knockdown. Moreover, we elucidated the impact of p97 on different stages of viral life cycle using two potent p97 inhibitors, CB-5083 and NMS-873 and demonstrate their can block HCoV replication. Together, our data provide insights to repurpose potential cancer drugs that target the essential host protein p97/VCP.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of N-Tera2 differentiated human neuronal cells, comparing control uninfected cells to HCoV-OC43 infected cells at 24, 48 and 72 hour post-infection Keywords: Cell response to viral infection Two-condition experiment, N-Tera2 differentiated human neuronal cell mock infected vs. N-Tera2 differentiated human neuronal cell HCoV-OC43 infected at 24, 48 and 72 hours. Biological replicates: 2 at each time-course point. Technical replicate: 2 dye-swap at each time-point. 2 arrays hybridized with mock(cy3) vs infected(cy5) and 2 array with infected(cy3) vs mock(cy5).
Project description:We performed genome-wide CRISPR KO screens in human Huh7.5.1 cells to select for mutations that render host cells resistant to viral infection by SARS-CoV-2, human coronavirus 229E and OC43.