IAH Flashcards
What is the plaque forming assay?
tissue culture assay for quantifying infectious virus
What is a focus assay?
Counting the areas where cells overgrow
What are the components of virion particle?
genome, enzmes, auxialry protein, structural proteins, attachment proteins, fusion proteins, membrane
What is the physiology of picornavirus?
icosahedral, ssRNA+, no lipid envelope, no tegmentum, pH stability: enterovirus ph3-9
rhino virus only ph6+
Polio infection vs. disease?
most were innapparent (asymptomatic)
mild illness-minor febrile illness
only 0.1-2% resulted in paralytic poliomyeltitis:
complication paralysis
How was picornavirus diagnosed?
serologic, PCR, virus isolation from CSF, stool specimens and throat washing
Polio had three major epidemiological phases?
endemic
virus encountered at early age, high rate of sublinical infections, encounter at maternal antibodies
epidemic
late 1800s, encounter virus at later age, bc of hygeine, increased paralytic incidence
post-vaccine
few cases, all cases related to virus
Piolovirus produces how many proteins?
one protein, causes self limited proteases
How does poliovirus inject its +RNA genome into it?
injected after endocytosis, by utilizing hte capsid as an injection system
What is the physiology of adenovirus?
latent virus in adenoides and tonsils, 51 serotypes, causes gastrointestinal or respiratory disease,
What is adenovirus more dangerous in?
children and immunocompromised
How does adenovirus attach and entry?
viral surfing by attaching to myosin, enters through clathrin mediated endocytosis, viral fusion pore control
How is adenovirus shed from epithelial cells?
Enters throug apical end, shed on the basal side, and hte virus penton spike fiber disrupts adhesion gap junction to allow it back into the lumen
How do you quantify infectious virus?
plaque assay
focus forming assay
single-step growth curve
What are the basic steps in a viral life cycle?
attachment, penetration, uncoating, synthesis of components (synthesis of mRNA, translation of viral proteins, genomre replication),
assembly of viral components
exit maturation
What is virion attachment?
for both naked and envelopoed virus, a viral surface protein recognizes a receptor on the target cell
What is the receptor fro HIV?
Human CD4 on t cells
What is the receptor on cell for EBV?
Human complement receptor CD21
What is the receptor on cell for Rhinovirus?
Human ICAM1
What is the receptor on the cell for Influenza virus?
sialic acid
How do viruses cause disease?
Virus destruction of infected cells
viral modification of infected cell function
immune and inflammatory responses to virus infection
-fever,rash, myalgia
-immune-mediated damage or destruction
combination of several factors
What innate response from host defense is responsible for viral combat?
soluble mediators (IFNs, cyokines, chemokines; antiviral response within infected cell; make surrounding cells resistant to infection, recruit effector cells) apoptosis
What is the humoral adaptive response is sued to combat viral infection?
neutralizing antibody: block attachment or entry
complement fixing antibody: lyse virions or infected cells
What is the cell-mediated adaptive response to combat viral infection?
MHC presentation of viral peptides killing of virus-infected cells by cytotoxic T cells
What are the characteristics of chronic virus infection?
Initial steps of infection similar to accute; however virus is not cleared. Initial robust immune response is subdued to prevent immunopathology; immune response of host set to a higher activation state overall
What is hte definition of a latent virus infection?
a viral cycle chaaracterized by minimal if any expression of a subset of viral genes and absence of lytic replication and infectious virion production
What is the prototype of latent virus infection?
herpesvirus
What are the innate immunity to viral infection?
Patterns by PRRs Type 1 IFN secretion cytokines -- IL1, TNFalpha IFNgamma, chemokines NK cells- direct killing of virus-infected cells by NK cells and NK cell are a huge source of IFNgamma
What are the order of immune responses for innate reaction to innate immune response?
Production of IFNalpha, IFNbeta, TNFalpha, IL12 early 2 day peak
NK cell mediated killing 3 day peak
T cell medaited peak 6 to 10 days
What is exogenous IFNalpha used to treat?
chronic Hep C
tx melanoma, hairy cell leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, Kaposi’s sarcoma
What is exogenous IFN Beta used to treat?
used in treaatment of MS
Why is exogenous IFNgamma not used to treat disease?
limited clinical usefulness but side effects limit it’s ability
What is PKR?
induced by IFN, protein kinase R
binds to ds RNA and becomes autophosphorylates; phosphorylates eIF-2alpha
inhibits translation
What is OAS?
2’-5’ Oligoadenylate synthetase it is also induced by IFN
binds dsRNA
catalyzes synthesis of oligo adenlyate and activates RNAse L- endoribonuclease
IFNalpha and IFNbeta induce the anti-viral state which leads to waht?
increase surface class 1MHC
increased NK cells
decrease viral protein synthesis
What is the role of TNF?
tumor necrosis factor; a pyrogen which can induce fever
produced by activated macrophages, cD4 T cells and NK cells
induces death signaling
What is the role of IL1beta?
a pyrogen-can induce fever
major pro inflammatory; produced and secreted by activated macrophages
What is IL6?
major pro-inflammatory cytokine
What is the role of NK cells?
kill targets after assessing the balance between inhibitory signals from class I molecules activating signals from NK activating ligands
How are infected cells induced to undergo apoptosis?
from within; by internal factors and frm outside by Fas or TNFalpha, NK cells
What is the role of viral IFN-GammaR or viral IFNalpha/betaR?
blocks binding of IFN’s and is encoded by poxviruses
How does Adenovirus inhibit PKR?
encodes its own structured RNA and inhbitis activation by dsRNA
How does poxvirus counter PKR activation?
encodes dsRNA binding proteins that sequester the dsRNA and prevent PKR activation
What cancer does hepatitis B and Hepatitis C cause?
hepatocellular carcinoma
What cancers do EBV cause?
lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma
What cancer does HHV8 cause?
kaposi’s sarcoma KSHV
What cancer does HTLV1 cause?
adult T cell leukemia
What cancer does HPV cause?
cervical cancer; head and neck cancer
What patient population are virally caused cancers occurng
immunosuppressive
What does merkel cell polyoma virus cause?
merkel cell carcinoma a aggressive skin cancer in elder and immunosuppressed patients
What is the structure of papillomavirus?
member of paovavirus
infect cutaneous and mucosal epithelia
small circular double-stranded DNA genome
What proteins does the HPV genome encode?
virus encodes early and late genes?
E1 adn E2 mediate the replication and transcription of viral DNA
E4 disrupts cytokeratins to facilitate virus egress
L1 and L2 compose the capside
What are E5, 6, and 7 doing that is associated with onocogenesis?
E5-stim constitutive growth factor receptor signaling
E6 and E7 neutralizes the major brakes that regulate the cell cycle p53 and Rb
What HPV protein neutralizes p53 and Rb to uncouple cell division?
E6 and E7
What HPV proteins stimulate growth factor receptor signaling?
E5
How does replication of HPV work?
early gene expression in basal layers
late gene expression in spinous and graunlar layer
virion assembled and released in cornified layer
Where is HPV virion assembled and released?
the cornified and granular layer
Where is late gene expression and viral genome amplifaction occuring in HPV?
granular and spinosis layer
Where is the early gene expression E1, E2, E6 and E7 occuring?
basal and spinous level of HPV
At what level does HPV initially infect,
the dermis
How does HPV E7 regulate Rb?
binds Rb and targets it for degradation so prevents it blocking the progression to S phase
What inappropiate entry into the cell cycle can activate p53 protein?
Induces production of Cdk/cyclin inhibitors and stops the cell cycle
What is the role of E6 protein of papillomavirus?
recruits a ubiquitin ligase that targets p53 for degradation and prevents it from blocking progression to S phase or inducing apoptosis
also induces the expression of telomerase
What is the role of a pap smear?
cytological evidence of diplasia or neoplasia; detection of koliocytotic cells which are rounded and appear in clumps
What is the role of hybrid capture assay?
used for detection, strain analysis, and quantification of HPV DNA
What is the virion structure and composition of retroviruses?
env protein is hte envelope
group specific antigens (gag)
Capid core is made of Matrix, Capsid, Nucleocapsid, protease
What are the 3 groups of proteins in a retroviral genomic RNA?
gag, pol and env
What does R stand for in retrovirus?
repeat on both ends of genome
What is the gag gene?
encodes the Matrix, capsid, nucleocapsid, and protease
What is the polymerase gene (pol)?
encodes reverse transcriptaseand integrase which are made as an extended polyprotein
What is the envelope gene?
encodes the env protein, which is made as a precursor and gets cleaved into different domains
Complex retrovirus HIV organized how?
similar to simple retrovirus except numerous adtional genes
How are the accessory proteins mRNA’s generated in complex retrovirus?
complex alternative splicing
Replication cycle?
consists of a number steps seperated into two phases by the integration step
How does adsorption of HIV work?
HIV receptor is CD4/CCR5;
How does HIV penetrate and uncoat in human cells?
viral envelope fuses with cell membrane either at the cell surface or in endosomes after endocytosis
How does HIV uncoat in human cells?
genomic RNA is only partially uncoated, remains in a protein ‘particle’ particle in the cytoplasm
some of the gag proteins remian associated with incoming genomic RNA
How does reverse transcription work with HIV?
process of converting ssRNA to dsDNA; integrated DNA called provirus
How does integration work with HIV?
carried out by the integrase protein which enters cell with the virus and remains associated with the dsDNA
How does proviral transcription work in HIV?
major role of the LTR is to direct synthesis of viral RNA
organization of the LTR- U3 contains binding sites for cellular transcription factors acquired for high level RNA synthesis
How does RNA processing work in HIV?
as pol II transcripts all viral RNAs are polyadenylated, some must be spliced to generate teh env mRNA but a large portion must remain full length
How does translation occur in HIV?
most abundant protein is gag and gag-pol, made as a polyproteins from full length mRNA