Chapter 18 Flashcards
Influenza Viruses
yearly flue season is
december to march
H1N1 subtype is
pandemic and dangerous
virus induce
interferons and cytokines, leading to inflammatory response
influenza infects
respiratory tracts epithelial cells
influenza gets rid of
ciliated epithelium, leading to pneumonia
orthomyxoviridae has three classes
influenza A, B, C
influenza A has hosts of
birds and mammals
influenza B has hosts
limited to humans
influenza C has hosts of
pigs and humans
general structure of influenza
enveloped, multiple helical capsids with roughly spherical (late) and filamentous (early) structures
roughly spherical structure is
smaller and incorporated into aerosols, and host-to-host transmission
filamentous structure is
extended out from cells, cell-to-cell transmission
influenza starts to enter second cell by
endocytosis while still budding from the first cell’s plasma
9 of 11 viral proteins are
in the virion
surface proteins are
hemagglutinin (HA), neuraminidase (NA), nucleocapsid protein (NP), ion channel (M2), matrix protein (M1)
inside, there is
RNA polymerase complex (PA, PB1, PB2) and NS2 protein
Influenza virus HA protein is
trimer, sulfide bond and fusion peptide N-C between HA[1] and [2]. type-1 has N of [1] and [C] unattached
HA[1] has
Sialic acid, binding domain, is used for attachment
After attachment and endocytosis to form endosome, tetramer M2 lets H+ in to
lower pH inside article, destabilizing NC-M1
once NC-M1 is broken,
vRNPs released
anti-influenza drug amantadine specifically blocks
M2 activity
pH-dependent fusion releases M1 into
cytosol
pH-dependent fusion releases RNP into
nucleus, NC+PB1,2+PA
genome structure of the virion is
8 (-)-strand RNA segments
segments 1,3-6 are
each encoding a single protein
segment 2 is
encoding two proteins (3’ ORF by leaky scanning)
segments 7 and 8 are
each encode two proteins (mRNAs spliced)
RNAs always remain associated with
NP
end ends of genome are
complementary, but not base-paired
each genome is ended with
PA, PB1,2
helically wrapped RNA around
NP
RNA segment 1 makes
PB2, binds to cap structure on cPre-mRNAs, part of transcriptase complex