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Virol J. 2008; 5: 114.
Published online 2008 October 6. doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-5-114.
PMCID: PMC2572611
Inhibition of G1P3 expression found in the differential display study on respiratory syncytial virus infection
Dongchi Zhao,corresponding author1,2 Dan Peng,1 Lei Li,2 Qiwei Zhang,2 and Chuyu Zhang2
1Pediatrics Department, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Medical School, Donghu Road 169, Wuhan 430071, PR China
2Virology Institute, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China
corresponding authorCorresponding author.
Dongchi Zhao: zhaodong/at/public.wh.hb.cn; Dan Peng: pengdan83/at/hotmail.com; Lei Li: avlab/at/whu.edu.cn; Qiwei Zhang: avlab/at/whu.edu.cn; Chuyu Zhang: avlab/at/whu.edu.cn
Received August 17, 2008; Accepted October 6, 2008.
Abstract

Background
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading viral pathogen associated with bronchiolitis and lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children worldwide. The respiratory epithelium is the primary initiator of pulmonary inflammation in RSV infections, which cause significant perturbations of global gene expression controlling multiple cellular processes. In this study, differential display reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction amplification was performed to examine mRNA expression in a human alveolar cell line (SPC-A1) infected with RSV.

Results
Of the 2,500 interpretable bands on denaturing polyacrylamide gels, 40 (1.6%) cDNA bands were differentially regulated by RSV, in which 28 (70%) appeared to be upregulated and another 12 (30%) appeared to be downregulated. Forty of the expressed sequence tags (EST) were isolated, and 20 matched homologs in GenBank. RSV infection upregulated the mRNA expression of chemokines CC and CXC and interfered with type α/β interferon-inducible gene expression by upregulation of MG11 and downregulation of G1P3.

Conclusion
RSV replication could induce widespread changes in gene expression including both positive and negative regulation and play a different role in the down-regulation of IFN-α and up-regulation of IFN-γ inducible gene expression, which suggests that RSV interferes with the innate antiviral response of epithelial cells by multiple mechanisms.

Background

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a leading cause of epidemic respiratory tract infection in infants, spreads primarily by contact with contaminated secretions and replicates in the nasopharyngeal epithelium [1,2]. The respiratory epithelium is postulated to be a primary initiator of pulmonary inflammation in patients with RSV infections [3]. In general, to establish an infection in host cells successfully, viral entry to host cells results in two sets of events: activation of intracellular signaling pathways to regulate pathogenic gene expression [4,5] and subversion of the host's innate immune response [6,7]. RSV infection does not affect the expression of genes belonging to a single biological pathway but causes significant perturbation of global gene expression controlling multiple cellular processes [5]. RSV replication also induces widespread changes in gene expression for cell-surface receptors, chemokines and cytokines, transcription factors, and cell signal transduction elements [8-10].

One pathway to upregulate chemokine gene expression was identified by the activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase and nuclear factor κB during RSV infection [11,12]. The latter signaling cascade cluster includes chemokines, transcriptional regulators, intracellular proteins regulating translation and proteolysis, and secreted proteins [4,9,13], which influence the onset and severity of asthma. For the successful establishment of infection, RSV has also evolved several strategies to escape host cell antiviral mechanisms. Nonstructural proteins 1 and 2 cooperatively antagonize the antiviral effects of type I interferon (IFN) [14-16]. The G glycoprotein functions as a mimic of the CX3C chemokine [17], and during replication RSV displays a conformationally altered mature envelope that is less susceptible to an anti-F glycoprotein neutralizing antibody response [18]. RSV infection inhibits IFN-α/β signaling by specific suppression of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 1/2 phosphorylation and the degradation of STAT2 expression, providing a molecular mechanism for viral evasion of host innate immune response [6,19,20]. Thus, RSV infection appears to cause widespread changes in gene expression, and multiple mechanisms are involved in the host innate immune response. Here we analyzed the early response of epithelium to RSV infection using differential display (DD) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of mRNA. Forty DD expression sequence tags (ESTs) were analyzed, and two IFN-inducible genes, G1P3 and MG11, were examined during RSV infection.

Results

RSV induced mRNA differential display in SPC-A1 cells
To obtain the DD profile of SPC-1A cells in the presence or absence of RSV infection, total cellular RNA was extracted at 24 h after viral infection. Using an oligo-(dT) primer with A, C or G at the 3'-terminal position and one of 24 arbitrary primers, 72 PCR reactions were performed and produced c.2, 500 interpretable bands on denaturing polyacrylamide gels. Each primer pair combination PCR reaction was run twice. Of the 2,500 bands surveyed, 40 (1.6%) were differentially regulated by RSV infection and were excised for further investigation. The criteria for defining such a DD band have been described [21,22]: differential display cDNAs modulated by RSV needed to show pronounced differences between treatment groups, consistency between two reactions, overall band intensity, and a size of 50–600 nt. In this subjective assessment, 15 DD cDNAs were the most intense, demonstrating extreme differentiation between treatment groups ("on" vs "off" signals); 18 were intense with modest differentiation and seven were less intense, but showed extreme differentiation between treatment groups. Of these 40 excised cDNA bands, 28 (70%) appeared to be upregulated by RSV infection and another 12 (30%) appeared to be downregulated.

Characterization of differential display bands
These DD cDNAs were successfully reamplified, sequenced, and identified by BLAST searching http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/. Sequences were compared by BLAST against GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/ and dbEST http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST/ with the DD sequence identities established as the highest scoring annotated cDNA or EST sequences. Two ESTs appeared to encode repetitive elements and one was deleted from this DD profile. Thirty-four ESTs from these 40 sequences had been submitted to dbEST [GenBank: CB238796CB238829]. Twenty-eight ESTs were upregulated by RSV infection and 12 were downregulated in the same samples. Among the twenty-eight upregulated ESTs group, 16 ESTs matched with known genes in GenBank, five matched with dbEST or hypothetical genes or predicted mRNAs without identified function, and seven were sequences with mismatches in either dbEST or GenBank (Table 1). In the downregulated group, four ESTs had homologs to known genes, four matched to dbEST with a definition of hypothetical genes or predicted mRNAs, and four sequences mismatched either in dbEST or GenBank (Table 2).
Table 1Table 1
ESTs upregulated by RSV infection
Table 2Table 2
ESTs downregulated by infection

Classification of differential display mRNA functions
Among the 20 cloned ESTs, which were matched to their homologs in GenBank or dbETS, two were genes for the chemokines, CC (Hs.10458) and CXC (Hs. 82407), already confirmed to be associated with responses to RSV infection. Others were genes for the Ras-binding protein, zinc finger protein 265, membrane protein CD79A, metabolism flavoprotein, NADH dehydrogenase, phospholipase, and the IFN-γ-inducing factor MG11, which were all upregulated in SPC-A1 cells infected with RSV. Interestingly, RSV infection upregulated expression of the gene for MG11 but suppressed the gene for the IFN-α inducible protein G1P3. These results suggested that RSV replication could induce widespread changes in gene expression including both positive and negative regulation.

RSV upregulated MG11 and downregulated G1P3 mRNA expressions
To confirm that RSV replication interferes with G1P3 and MG11 mRNA expression in SPC-A1 cells, real-time PCR was performed to quantify mRNA levels after virus infection. To check G1P3 mRNA, SPC-A1 cells were infected with RSV at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) value of 3, and INF-a was added to the culture at final concentration of 1000 U/mL for 30 min. Total RNA was extracted at the indicated time points. RSV inhibited INF-a induced G1P3 expression time-dependently, while it induced MG11 mRNA expression: an IFN-g inducible gene (Fig.1 ). These results suggested that RSV infection plays a different role in the regulation of type a and type g IFN-induced gene expression (Fig. 2).
Figure 1Figure 1
RSV infection regulates interferon (IFN)-induced gene expression. SPC-A1 cells were infected with RSV at moi 3, and then INF-a was added into culture at the indicated time points at a final concentration of 1000 U/mL for 30 min. Un-infected cells were (more ...)
Figure 2Figure 2
Agarose gels electrophoreses. The real-time PCR products were electrophoresed on 2% agarose gels, and shown as one of three different experiments.

Discussion

Differential display is a semiquantitative, RT-PCR based technique that is used to compare mRNAs from two or more conditions of interest [22]. It is usually used to search for specific gene expression patterns associated with diseases and to find novel genes [21]. We tested for differential gene expression in SPC-A1 cells challenged with RSV infection. Our aim was to find novel transcripts modulated by RSV in the early stage of infection. We isolated 40 DD ESTs: 1.6% of c. 2500 bands identified. Sixteen were upregulated and four were downregulated following infection, and these were matched with homologous mRNAs in GenBank. They included IFN-inducible genes and genes for chemokines, membrane molecules, and metabolic factors.

Severe RSV infections involving the lower respiratory tract are primarily seen in young children with naive immune systems or genetic predispositions [1,2]. RSV replication is restricted to airway epithelial cells, where RSV replication induces potent expression of chemokines, so the epithelium is postulated to be a primary initiator of pulmonary inflammation in RSV infections [3]. The presence of eosinophil cationic protein and histamine are correlated with disease severity in the pathology of RSV infections. Here we also found that both chemokines CC and CXC were upregulated during RSV infection in SPC-A1 cells. The mechanisms responsible for recruitment of circulating leukocytes, mononuclear cells, and lymphocytes into the lung because of RSV infection are largely attributed to chemokines [5,23,24]. These are a superfamily of small chemotactic cytokines, which regulate the migration and activation of leukocytes and play a key role in inflammatory and infectious processes of the lung [25,26]. They are divided into functionally distinct groups: three groups of small basic (heparin-binding) proteins, termed the C, CC, and CXC chemokines (based on the number and spacing of highly conserved NH2-terminal cysteine residues), and a fourth, distantly related group, the CX3C chemokines, composed of large, membrane-bound glycoproteins attached through a COOH-mucin-like domain.

Other DD mRNAs of interest were for the IFN-induced genes G1P3 and MG11. G1P3, an interferon-stimulated gene (ISG) with a length of 829 bp [27], belongs to the FAM14 family of proteins and has an approximate molecular weight of 13–14 kDa. It has been identified that ectopically expressed G1P3 localized to mitochondria and antagonized TRAIL-mediated mitochondrial potential loss, cytochrome c release, and apoptosis, which contributed the specificity of G1P3 for the intrinsic apoptosis pathway by the direct role of a mitochondria-localized prosurvival ISG in antagonizing the effect of TRAIL[28]. Furthermore, downregulation of G1P3 restored IFN-α2b-induced apoptosis. Curtailing G1P3-mediated anti-apoptotic signals could improve therapies for myeloma or other malignancies. G1P3 was potently induced by IFN-α2b not only myeloma cell lines but also in fresh myeloma cells and resistant to chemotherapy-induced apoptosis. Unlike in cancer cells, the antiapoptotic activity of G1P3 may have a beneficial effect on IFN-mediated antiviral and innate immune responses. During viral infection, delaying early apoptosis through survival factor induction would be a viable cellular strategy to protect surrounding healthy cells from viral infection, enhancing IFN secretion, and overcoming proapoptotic activity of cytokines released into the surrounding milieu. In vitro experiments, the type I IFNs (α/β) induce transcription while type II interferon is a poor inducer of transcription for this gene [29]. IFN-α effectively inhibits hepatitis C virus subgenomic RNA replication and suppresses viral nonstructural protein synthesis. G1P3 enhances IFN-α antiviral efficacy by the activation of STAT3-signaling pathway and intracellular gene activation [30,31]. However, in our experiments, RSV infection appeared to inhibit IFN-α induced G1P3 mRNA, which suggested that virus escaped innate surveillance by subverting IFN-mediated antiviral response.

MG11, encoding a 56-kD protein, was found first in cultured astrocytes stimulated with IFN-γ. There is no evidence to identify this protein's function in host cell antiviral responses [32].

Conclusion

Our results show RSV replication could induce widespread changes in gene expression including both positive and negative regulation and play a different role in the down-regulation of type α and up-regulation of type γIFN-induced gene expression, which suggests that RSV interferes with the innate antiviral response of epithelial cells by multiple mechanisms.

Methods

Virus and cells
The human Long strain of RSV (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) was propagated in monolayers of Hep-2 cells grown in Eagle's minimum essential medium Gibco, NY, USA) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS). At maximum cytopathic effect, the cells were harvested and disrupted by sonication in the same culture medium. The suspension was clarified by centrifugation at 8,000 g for 10 min at 4°C and the supernatant was layered on top of a sucrose cushion (30% sucrose in 50 mM Tris buffered-normal saline solution containing 1 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetate [EDTA], pH 7. 5), and further centrifuged at 100,000 g for 1 h at 4°C. Pellets containing virus were resuspended in 10 mM phosphate buffered saline containing 15% sucrose and stored in aliquots at -80°C.

SPC-A1 cells (Human typeIIalveolar cell line) were obtained from China Type Culture Collection (CCTCC, Wuhan University, China) and cultured in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (DMEM; Life Technologies Gibco BRL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA) supplemented with 10% FBS, 2 mM glutamine, penicillin (100 U/mL), and streptomycin (100 μg/mL) at 37°C under 5% CO2 [32,33]. For viral infection, 80% confluent cells were inoculated with RSV at a MIO value of 3. An equivalent amount of sucrose solution was added to the control culture (which received no RSV). The flasks were rocked mechanically for 1 h at 37°C, and then supplemented with 2% FBS+DMEM and incubated at 37°C under 5% CO2. To test interferon (IFN)-α inducible gene expression, SPC-A1 cells were infected with RSV at moi 1, and IFN-α (PBL Biomedical Laboratories, Piscataway, NJ, USA) was added to cultures at the indicated times for 30 min to a final concentration of 1000 U/mL.

Differential display RT-PCR
Differential display RT-PCR was performed as described [21,22]. In brief, cDNA was synthesized from total RNA isolated from SPC-A1 cells using 250 ng 3'-anchored oligo-(dT) 10 μM primers, 3 μg total RNA, 1 μl 10 mM dNTP, 4 μl 5 × First-Strand Buffer, 2 μL 0.1 M DTT, 1 μL ribonuclease inhibitor RNaseOUT (40 U/μL), and 1 μL (200 U) of M-MLV Reverse Transcriptase (Invitrogen Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA), according to the manufacturer's protocol. cDNA was treated with RNase-free DNase to remove any contaminating genomic DNA. RT-PCR was run with the anchoring primers and one of the 24 random 10-mer primers supplied in the same kit. Amplifications were run for 40 cycles with denaturation at 94°C for 30 sec, annealing at 45°C for 45 sec, and elongation at 72°C for 45 sec with a 10 min extension at 72°C after the last cycle.

Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
After addition of a denaturing loading dye (95% formamide, 0.05% bromophenol blue 0.05% xylene cyanol) and a 2 min, 95°C heat step, PCR products were electrophoresed on 6% denaturing sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels, and developed with 0.1% silver stained according to the protocols of Silver Sequence™ (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) for development and visualization.

Excision, reamplification, and identification of DD products
Bands that appeared to be differential display were excised from the gels and eluted into 100 μL TE buffer (10 mM Tris/1 mM EDTA) by boiling for 10 min. The eluted DNA samples were then used as templates for PCR reamplification: 1 μL of DD-products were used in a 25 μL PCR reaction containing 2.5 μL of 10 × PCR buffer, 2.5 μL of 10 mM dNTPs, 1 μL of 30 μM downstream primer, 1 μL of 30 μM upstream primer, and 0.5 μL of Taq polymerase(Invitrogen Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA). Cycling conditions were identical to those used for RT-PCR. Reamplified PCR products were electrophoresed on 2% agarose gels, stained with ethidium bromide, excision, and purified with a DNA purification column(E.Z.N.A. TM Ploy Gel DNA Extraction Kit, Omega Bio-Tek, Inc. USA).

cDNA cloning and sequencing
Differentially expressed cDNA amplicons were subcloned into the pGEM T easy vector ((Promega, Madison, WI, USA) and sequenced using the DYEnamic ET terminator cycle sequencing kit (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Limited, UK). Sequencing reactions included 0.1 pmol DNA template, 5 pmol universal upstream primer, and 8 μL reagent premix at final volume of 20 μL. Labeling was carried out at 95°C for 20 sec, 50°C for 15 sec, and 60°C for 1 min, for 30 cycles and sequencing was carried out using an ABI PRISM 3100 (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA).

Real-time PCR
Real-time PCR reactions were performed using the protocol of ABI (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA). The primer sets were designed for G1P3 (NM_022872), forward: 5'-CCTCGCTGATGAGCTGGTCT-3', reverse: 5'-CTATCGAGATACTTGTGGGTGGC-3', and for MG11 (AK027811), forward: 5'-CTGGAACTCCATCCCGACTA-3', reverse: 5'-GGCAGTAATGCGCCTGTGA-3'. Quantification of cDNA targets was performed using an ABI Prism® 7000HT Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems), using SDS version 2.1 software. Each reaction contained 10 μL SYBR Green I Master Mix, 1 μL 30 nM forward and reverse primers, and 25 ng cDNA diluted in 9 μL RNase-free water. Thermal cycler conditions were run for 10 min at 95°C, then 40 cycles of 15 sec at 95°C and 1 min at 60°C per cycle using the ABI Prism® 7000 Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems). All reactions were run in duplicates, and data were normalized to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase as an internal control. Real-time PCR data were analyzed using the standard curve method.

BLAST searching in GenBank and dbEST
Differential display cDNA ESTs were matched in GenBank BLASTN and dbEST. Searches against dbEST were performed to analyze for the abundance of transcripts, to obtain information on possible specificity of mRNA expression, and to identify putative alternative splice forms. Sequences were edited manually by using Sequencher (version 4.14; http://www.genecodes.com/sequencher/) to remove vector sequences and to identify trash sequences, defined as sequences from bacterial DNA, sequences from primer polymers or sequences containing > 5% of ambiguous bases.

Abbreviations

RSV: Respiratory syncytial virus; DD-RTPCR: Differential display reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; ESTs: Expression sequence tags.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions

DZ developed the study design, laboratory work, participated in data collection, analysis and manuscript writing. DP participated in data collection, laboratory work, data entry and manuscript writing. LL participated in study design, data collection, and laboratory work. QZ developed the data analysis plan and was responsible for data analysis. CZ developed the data analysis plan and manuscript writing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (30371501) and Hubei scientific project (2004AA301C25).

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