Enhanced susceptibility to Zika virus during pregnancy: a role for maternal dengue antibodies

怀孕期间对寨卡病毒的易感性增强：母体登革热抗体的作用

基本信息

批准号：
10119036
负责人：
Jean Kyou Lim
金额：
$ 42.19万
依托单位：
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-17 至 2025-08-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10119036
关键词：
Adult Affect Africa Americas Antibodies Antibody Specificity Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Anxiety Area Asia Binding Biological Models Birth Brain Brazil Cells Central American Cognition Congenital Abnormality Country Culicidae Data Dengue Dengue Virus Dependence Development Disease Disease Outbreaks Disease Outcome Fc Receptor Fetal Development Fetus Fever Flavivirus Geography Human IgG1 IgG2 IgG3 IgG4 Immunity Immunocompetent Immunocompromised Host Immunoglobulin G Individual Infection Knock-in Knock-in Mouse Knockout Mice Learning Link Long-Term Effects Low Birth Weight Infant Maternal Health Measures Membrane Membrane Proteins Memory Mental Depression Microcephaly Minor Modeling Molecular Mothers Motor Mus Neonatal Pacific Islands Pathogenesis Placenta Populations at Risk Predisposition Pregnancy Reflex action Role STAT2 gene Sensory Serotyping Social Behavior South America South American Spontaneous abortion Surface Symptoms Testing Variant Viral Pathogenesis Virion Virus Virus Replication Vision ZIKV disease ZIKV infection Zika Virus cohort conditional knockout cross reactivity env Gene Products fetal in utero in vivo mortality neonatal Fc receptor offspring placental infection pregnant pup seropositive trophoblast virology

项目摘要

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus that is closely related to dengue virus (DENV). Since its discovery in 1947, ZIKV remained relatively unnoticed, causing small, local outbreaks primarily in parts of Africa and Asia, and was associated with minor symptoms, such as mild fever. However, in the last decade, ZIKV started to spread geographically across the Pacific islands, eventually reaching South America, where it caused an explosive outbreak that started in Brazil in 2015 and rapidly spread to other South and Central American countries. This has been accompanied by a startling link between ZIKV infection during pregnancy and the development of birth defects among fetuses and babies, including microcephaly. It is unclear what factors may have led to the massive ZIKV outbreak or the severe disease manifestations in the Americas, but one potential variable is that much of the at-risk population in the Americas has preexisting immunity to DENV. It is well documented that preexisting immunity to one serotype of DENV can alter the disease pathogenesis of a subsequent infection with a different DENV serotype, a phenomenon called antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). Because ZIKV outbreaks have occurred in regions around the world where DENV is endemic and due to the high degree of relatedness of ZIKV and DENV, it is critical to understand and characterize the extent to which prior infection with DENV exacerbates ZIKV disease. In this application, we will focus on how DENV antibodies impact ZIKV infection in the context of pregnancy by utilizing three model systems (immunocompromised Stat2-/- mice, immunocompetent humanized STAT2 knock-in mice, and human placental explants infected with ZIKV ex vivo).

寨卡病毒（ZIKV）是一种通过蚊子传播的黄病毒，与登革热病毒（DENV）密切相关。自 1947 年发现以来，寨卡病毒一直相对未被注意到，主要在非洲和亚洲部分地区引起小规模局部疫情，并伴有轻度发烧等轻微症状。然而，在过去十年中，ZIKV 开始在太平洋岛屿上传播，最终到达南美洲，并于 2015 年在巴西引发爆炸性疫情，并迅速蔓延到其他南美洲和中美洲国家。与此同时，怀孕期间寨卡病毒感染与胎儿和婴儿出生缺陷（包括小头畸形）的发生之间存在惊人的联系。目前尚不清楚哪些因素可能导致美洲出现寨卡病毒大规模爆发或出现严重的疾病表现，但一个潜在的变量是，美洲的大部分高危人群对登革热病毒已有免疫力。有充分证据表明，对一种 DENV 血清型预先存在的免疫力可以改变随后感染不同 DENV 血清型的疾病发病机制，这种现象称为抗体依赖性增强 (ADE)。由于 ZIKV 暴发发生在世界各地 DENV 流行的地区，并且由于 ZIKV 和 DENV 的高度相关性，因此了解和描述既往感染 DENV 使 ZIKV 疾病恶化的程度至关重要。在此应用中，我们将通过利用三种模型系统（免疫功能低下的 Stat2-/- 小鼠、免疫功能正常的人源化 STAT2 敲入小鼠和离体感染 ZIKV 的人胎盘外植体），重点研究 DENV 抗体如何在妊娠背景下影响 ZIKV 感染。。