Transcriptomic Signatures of Zika Virus Infection in Patients and a Cell Culture Model

Zika virus (ZIKV), a re-emerging flavivirus, is associated with devasting developmental and neurological disease outcomes particularly in infants infected in utero. Towards understanding the molecular underpinnings of the unique ZIKV disease pathologies, numerous transcriptome-wide studies have been...

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Published inMicroorganisms (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 7; p. 1499
Main Authors Berglund, Gillian, Lennon, Claudia D., Badu, Pheonah, Berglund, John Andrew, Pager, Cara T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 22.07.2024
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Adenocarcinoma
Alternative splicing
Cancer
Cell culture
Data analysis
Epidemics
Gene expression
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Infections
Leukocytes (mononuclear)
Localization
Neurological diseases
patients
Pediatrics
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells
Stem cells
transcriptome
Transcriptomes
Transcriptomics
Vector-borne diseases
Viral infections
Zika virus
Grand Island
United States > US
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Summary:Zika virus (ZIKV), a re-emerging flavivirus, is associated with devasting developmental and neurological disease outcomes particularly in infants infected in utero. Towards understanding the molecular underpinnings of the unique ZIKV disease pathologies, numerous transcriptome-wide studies have been undertaken. Notably, these studies have overlooked the assimilation of RNA-seq analysis from ZIKV-infected patients with cell culture model systems. In this study we find that ZIKV-infection of human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells, mirrored both the transcriptional and alternative splicing profiles from previously published RNA-seq data of peripheral blood mononuclear cells collected from pediatric patients during early acute, late acute, and convalescent phases of ZIKV infection. Our analyses show that ZIKV infection in cultured cells correlates with transcriptional changes in patients, while the overlap in alternative splicing profiles was not as extensive. Overall, our data indicate that cell culture model systems support dissection of select molecular changes detected in patients and establishes the groundwork for future studies elucidating the biological implications of alternative splicing during ZIKV infection.
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ISSN:2076-2607
2076-2607
DOI:10.3390/microorganisms12071499