Development and application of a bioluminescent imaging mouse model for Chikungunya virus based on pseudovirus system

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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus that is transmitted to humans primarily via the bite of an infected mosquito. Infection of humans by CHIKV can cause chikungunya fever which is an acute febrile illness associated with severe, often debilitating polyarthralgias. Since a re-emergence of CHIKV in 2004, the virus has spread into novel locations in nearly 40 countries including non-endemic regions and has led to millions of cases of disease throughout countries. Handling of CHIKV is restricted to the high-containment Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facilities, which greatly impede the research progress of this virus. In this study, an envelope-pseudotyped virus expressing the firefly luciferase reporter protein (pHIV-CHIKV-Fluc) was generated. An in vitro sensitive neutralizing assay and an in vivo bioluminescent-imaging-based mouse infection model had been developed based on the CHIKV pseudovirus. Utilizing the platform, protection effect of DNA vaccine was evaluated. Therefore, this study provides a safe, sensitive and visualizing model for evaluating vaccines and antiviral therapies against CHIKV in low containment BSL-2 laboratories.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Vaccine - 35(2017), 47 vom: 07. Nov., Seite 6387-6394

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wu, Jiajing [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Chenyan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Weijin [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Youchun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Animal model
Bioluminescent imaging
Chikungunya virus
DNA vaccine
EC 1.13.12.7
Journal Article
Luciferases, Firefly
Pseudovirus
Vaccines, DNA
Viral Vaccines

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Date Completed 06.06.2018

Date Revised 06.06.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.10.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM277004772