Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection
Skeletal muscle, at 30 to 40% of body mass, is the most abundant soft tissue in the body. Besides its primary function in movement and posture, skeletal muscle is a significant innate immune organ with the capacity to produce cytokines and chemokines and respond to proinflammatory cytokines. Little...
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| author | Baquero-Perez, Belinda Kuchipudi, Suresh V. Ho, Jemima Sebastian, Sujith Puranik, Anita Howard, Wendy Brookes, Sharon M. Brown, Ian H. Chang, Kin-Chow |
| author_facet | Baquero-Perez, Belinda Kuchipudi, Suresh V. Ho, Jemima Sebastian, Sujith Puranik, Anita Howard, Wendy Brookes, Sharon M. Brown, Ian H. Chang, Kin-Chow |
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| description | Skeletal muscle, at 30 to 40% of body mass, is the most abundant soft tissue in the body. Besides its primary function in movement and posture, skeletal muscle is a significant innate immune organ with the capacity to produce cytokines and chemokines and respond to proinflammatory cytokines. Little is known about the role of skeletal muscle during systemic influenza A virus infection in any host and particularly avian species. Here we used primary chicken and duck multinucleated myotubes to examine their susceptibility and innate immune response to influenza virus infections. Both chicken and duck myotubes expressed avian and human sialic acid receptors and were readily susceptible to low-pathogenicity (H2N3 A/mallard duck/England/7277/06) and high-pathogenicity (H5N1 A/turkey/England/50-92/91 and H5N1 A/turkey/Turkey/1/05) avian and human H1N1 (A/USSR/77) influenza viruses. Both avian host species produced comparable levels of progeny H5N1 A/turkey/Turkey/1/05 virus.Notably, the rapid accumulation of viral nucleoprotein and matrix (M) gene RNA in chicken and duck myotubes was accompanied by extensive cytopathic damage with marked myotube apoptosis (widespread microscopic blebs, caspase 3/7 activation, and annexin V binding at the plasma membrane). Infected chicken myotubes produced significantly higher levels of proinflammatory cytokines than did the corresponding duck cells. Additionally, in chicken myotubes infected with H5N1 viruses, the induction of interferon beta (IFN-beta) and IFN-inducible genes, including the melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA-5) gene, was relatively weak compared to infection with the corresponding H2N3 virus. Our findings highlight that avian skeletal muscle fibers are capable of productive influenza virus replication and are a potential tissue source of infection. |
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| spelling | nottingham-439182020-05-04T17:01:35Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43918/ Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection Baquero-Perez, Belinda Kuchipudi, Suresh V. Ho, Jemima Sebastian, Sujith Puranik, Anita Howard, Wendy Brookes, Sharon M. Brown, Ian H. Chang, Kin-Chow Skeletal muscle, at 30 to 40% of body mass, is the most abundant soft tissue in the body. Besides its primary function in movement and posture, skeletal muscle is a significant innate immune organ with the capacity to produce cytokines and chemokines and respond to proinflammatory cytokines. Little is known about the role of skeletal muscle during systemic influenza A virus infection in any host and particularly avian species. Here we used primary chicken and duck multinucleated myotubes to examine their susceptibility and innate immune response to influenza virus infections. Both chicken and duck myotubes expressed avian and human sialic acid receptors and were readily susceptible to low-pathogenicity (H2N3 A/mallard duck/England/7277/06) and high-pathogenicity (H5N1 A/turkey/England/50-92/91 and H5N1 A/turkey/Turkey/1/05) avian and human H1N1 (A/USSR/77) influenza viruses. Both avian host species produced comparable levels of progeny H5N1 A/turkey/Turkey/1/05 virus.Notably, the rapid accumulation of viral nucleoprotein and matrix (M) gene RNA in chicken and duck myotubes was accompanied by extensive cytopathic damage with marked myotube apoptosis (widespread microscopic blebs, caspase 3/7 activation, and annexin V binding at the plasma membrane). Infected chicken myotubes produced significantly higher levels of proinflammatory cytokines than did the corresponding duck cells. Additionally, in chicken myotubes infected with H5N1 viruses, the induction of interferon beta (IFN-beta) and IFN-inducible genes, including the melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA-5) gene, was relatively weak compared to infection with the corresponding H2N3 virus. Our findings highlight that avian skeletal muscle fibers are capable of productive influenza virus replication and are a potential tissue source of infection. American Society for Microbiology 2015-03-01 Article PeerReviewed Baquero-Perez, Belinda, Kuchipudi, Suresh V., Ho, Jemima, Sebastian, Sujith, Puranik, Anita, Howard, Wendy, Brookes, Sharon M., Brown, Ian H. and Chang, Kin-Chow (2015) Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection. Journal of Virology, 89 (5). pp. 2494-2506. ISSN 0022-538X http://jvi.asm.org/content/89/5/2494 doi:10.1128/JVI.03421-14 doi:10.1128/JVI.03421-14 |
| spellingShingle | Baquero-Perez, Belinda Kuchipudi, Suresh V. Ho, Jemima Sebastian, Sujith Puranik, Anita Howard, Wendy Brookes, Sharon M. Brown, Ian H. Chang, Kin-Chow Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection |
| title | Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection |
| title_full | Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection |
| title_fullStr | Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection |
| title_short | Chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection |
| title_sort | chicken and duck myotubes are highly susceptible and permissive to influenza virus infection |
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