Replication of MERS and SARS coronaviruses in bat cells offers insights to their ancestral origins

Previous findings of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)-related viruses in bats, and the ability of Tylonycteris-BatCoV HKU4 spike protein to utilize MERS-CoV receptor, human dipeptidyl peptidase 4 hDPP4, suggest a bat ancestral origin of MERS-CoV. We developed 12 primary bat cell lines from seven bat species, including Tylonycteris pachypus, Pipistrellus abramus and Rhinolophus sinicus (hosts of Tylonycteris-BatCoV HKU4, Pipistrellus-BatCoV HKU5, and SARS-related-CoV respectively), and tested their susceptibilities to MERS-CoVs, SARS-CoV, and human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E). Five cell lines, including P. abramus and R. sinicus but not T. pachypus cells, were susceptible to human MERS-CoV EMC/2012. However, three tested camel MERS-CoV strains showed different infectivities, with only two strains capable of infecting three and one cell lines respectively. SARS-CoV can only replicate in R. sinicus cells, while HCoV-229E cannot replicate in any bat cells. Bat dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) sequences were closely related to those of human and non-human primates but distinct from dromedary DPP4 sequence. Critical residues for binding to MERS-CoV spike protein were mostly conserved in bat DPP4. DPP4 was expressed in the five bat cells susceptible to MERS-CoV, with significantly higher mRNA expression levels than those in non-susceptible cells (P = 0.0174), supporting that DPP4 expression is critical for MERS-CoV infection in bats. However, overexpression of T. pachypus DPP4 failed to confer MERS-CoV susceptibility in T. pachypus cells, suggesting other cellular factors in determining viral replication. The broad cellular tropism of MERS-CoV should prompt further exploration of host diversity of related viruses to identify its ancestral origin.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

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2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

Emerging microbes & infections - 7(2018), 1 vom: 10. Dez., Seite 209

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lau, Susanna K P [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Rachel Y Y [VerfasserIn]
Luk, Hayes K H [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Longchao [VerfasserIn]
Fung, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
Li, Kenneth S M [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Emily Y M [VerfasserIn]
Ahmed, Syed Shakeel [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Jasper F W [VerfasserIn]
Kok, Raven K H [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Kwok-Hung [VerfasserIn]
Wernery, Ulrich [VerfasserIn]
Yuen, Kwok-Yung [VerfasserIn]
Woo, Patrick C Y [VerfasserIn]

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Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4
EC 3.4.14.5
Journal Article
Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus

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Date Completed 22.04.2019

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41426-018-0208-9

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NLM291622054