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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
卷 95, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.28915
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ADP-ribosylation factor 6; endocytosis; enterovirus 71; human brain microvascular endothelial cells; viral entry
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Infection of the central nervous system caused by enterovirus 71 (EV71) in hand-foot-and-mouth disease is the main cause of death. This study identified a new pathway by which EV71 enters human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMECs) and showed its dependence on ADP-ribosylation factor 6 (ARF6). Inhibition of ARF6 reduced EV71 infectivity in HBMECs and a specific inhibitor of ARF6 alleviated EV71 infection mortality in mice.
Infection of the central nervous system caused by enterovirus 71 (EV71) remains the main cause of death in hand-foot-and-mouth disease. However, the mechanism responsible for how EV71 breaks through the blood-brain barrier to infect brain cells has yet to be elucidated. By performing a high-throughput small interfering RNA (siRNA) screening and validation, we found that the infection of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMECs) by EV71 was independent of the endocytosis pathways mediated by caveolin, clathrin, and macropinocytosis but dependent on ADP-ribosylation factor 6 (ARF6), a small guanosinetriphosphate (GTP)-binding protein of the Ras superfamily. The specific siRNA targeting ARF6 markedly inhibited HBMECs susceptibility to EV71. EV71 infectivity was inhibited by NAV-2729, a specific inhibitor of ARF6, in a dose-dependent manner. The subcellular analysis demonstrated the co-localization of the endocytosed EV71 and ARF6, while knockdown of ARF6 with siRNA remarkably influenced EV71 endocytosis. By immunoprecipitation assays, we found a direct interaction of ARF6 with EV71 viral protein. Furthermore, ARF1, another small GTP-binding protein, was also found to participate in ARF6-mediated EV71 endocytosis. Murine experiments demonstrated that NAV-2729 significantly alleviated mortality caused by EV71 infection. Our study revealed a new pathway by which EV71 enters the HBMECs and provides new targets for drug development.
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