A neonatal mouse model to study retrovirus-specific humoral responses

研究逆转录病毒特异性体液反应的新生小鼠模型

• 批准号: 10241945
• 负责人: Tatyana V Golovkina
• 金额: $ 46.32万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-24 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10241945
• 关键词: Adult; Affect; Age; Alleles; Animals; Antibodies; Antibody Response; Antigen Presentation; Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes; Bioinformatics; Birth; Breast Feeding; Candidate Disease Gene; Cells; Chromosome 15; Chromosome 17; Code; DNA Markers; Evolution; Exposure to; Genes; Genetic; Goals; HIV; Haplotypes; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C virus; Homologous Gene; Human; I/LnJ Mouse; Immune response; Immune system; Immunity; Impairment; Inbred C57BL Mice; Inbred Mouse; Infection; Infection Control; Knock-out; Link; MHC Class II Genes; Major Histocompatibility Complex; Maps; Mediating; Molecular; Mothers; Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus; Murine leukemia virus; Mus; Mutate; Names; Natural Resistance; Neonatal; Newborn Infant; Pathway interactions; Penetrance; Peptides; Phenotype; Predisposition; Production; Resistance; Resolution; Retroviridae; Role; Spleen; Transgenic Mice; Vaccines; Virus; gain of function; gene function; genome wide association study; genomic locus; human disease; infection risk; mouse model; neonatal mice; neonate; neutralizing antibody; pathogen; positional cloning; resistance gene; response; trait; virus identification

Project Summary Only rare humans are naturally resistant to retroviral infections. Although genome wide association studies can identify genetic loci associated with the resistance, finding particular resistance genes within gene- rich loci has proven to be a great challenge. On the other hand, inbred mice offer a great alternative for mapping mammalian genes responsible for resistance and susceptibility to retroviruses. We have described a recessive locus named ‘virus infectivity controller 1’ (vic1), which is responsible for production of retrovirus- neutralizing antibodies (Ab) in mice from the I/LnJ strain (2). vic1 mediates a neutralizing Ab response against two different murine retroviruses (6, 2, 8). Thus, vic1 represents a mechanism of broad resistance against retroviruses. Using positional cloning and computational approaches we identified H2-Ob (Ob) as the gene coding for Vic1 (1). Ob encodes the beta subunit which together with alpha subunit, encoded by Oa, forms evolutionally conserved the non-classical Major Histocompatibility Complex class II-like molecule H2-O (HLA- DO in humans), a negative regulator of antigen presentation. The precise function of H2-O/HLA-DO is still debated, but it appears to be related to its ability to modify the MHC-II peptide repertoire by inhibiting another MHC-II-like molecule, H-2M (HLA-DM in humans) (9). The role of non-functional Ob in retroviral resistance was confirmed by moving the I/LnJ allele of Ob to several virus-susceptible backgrounds, such as C3H/HeN, B6, and BALB/cJ, and by producing a knock-out allele of the gene in B6 mice. All these animals produced retrovirus-neutralizing Abs. However, the effect only had high penetrance if these animals were infected as adults. In contrast, I/LnJ mice produced retrovirus- neutralizing Abs irrespective of their age at infection, even when they were infected as newborns. The finding prompted us to search for the genetic basis of resistance of I/LnJ neonates. The trait was successfully linked to a single dominant 4.1 Mb region of Chromosome 15, virus infectivity controller 2 (vic2). Vic2 function was only apparent in the absence of functional Ob. The inheritance of both non-functional Ob and vic2i conferred the ability to produce anti-virus Abs to neonatal mice from all susceptible strains. Many viruses, including retroviruses, infect adults, but are also passed from mothers to newborns during birth and breastfeeding. It is commonly accepted that the immune system of a newborn is underdeveloped, increasing the risk of infection and impairing responses to many vaccines. However, I/LnJ mice generate a virus-neutralizing immune response independent of the age at which they were exposed to the pathogen. Thus, it is fundamentally important to unravel the mechanism of Vic2’s function in order to understand the unknown features of the neonate immune system and to acquire the ability of stimulating productive pathogen-specific immunity in neonates. Identification of vic2 and the delineation of the pathway that it controls are the goals of this proposal.

项目概要 尽管存在全基因组关联，但只有极少数人对逆转录病毒感染具有天然抵抗力。 研究可以识别与抗性相关的基因位点，在基因中找到特定的抗性基因 丰富的基因座已被证明是一个巨大的挑战，另一方面，近交小鼠提供了一个很好的选择。 我们描述了负责逆转录病毒抗性和易感性的哺乳动物基因图谱。 名为“病毒感染性控制器 1”（vic1）的隐性基因座，负责产生逆转录病毒 I/LnJ 品系 vic1 小鼠中的中和抗体 (Ab) 介导针对中和抗体的反应。 两种不同的鼠逆转录病毒 (6,2,8) 因此，vic1 代表了一种广泛抵抗的机制。 使用定位克隆和计算方法，我们确定了 H2-Ob (Ob) 基因。 Ob 编码 Vic1 (1)，它与 ​​Oa 编码的 α 亚基一起形成。 进化上保守的非经典主要组织相容性复合体 II 类分子 H2-O (HLA- DO（人类中的 DO），抗原呈递的负调节因子 H2-O/HLA-DO 的精确功能仍然存在。 有争议，但它似乎与其通过抑制另一种肽来修饰 MHC-II 肽库的能力有关。 MHC-II 样分子，H-2M（人类 HLA-DM）(9)。 通过将 Ob 的 I/LnJ 等位基因移至 多种病毒敏感背景，例如 C3H/HeN、B6 和 BALB/cJ，并通过产生敲除 B6 小鼠中该基因的等位基因产生了逆转录病毒中和抗体。 如果这些动物在成年后被感染，则具有高外显率，相反，I/LnJ 小鼠产生逆转录病毒。 中和抗体，无论感染时的年龄如何，即使他们在新生儿时被感染。 促使我们寻找I/LnJ新生儿耐药性的遗传基础，并成功将其关联起来。 病毒感染性控制器 2 (vic2) 功能位于 15 号染色体的单个显性 4.1 Mb 区域。 仅在缺乏功能性 Ob 的情况下才明显。非功能性 Ob 和 vic2i 都具有继承性。 能够从所有易感品系中向新生小鼠产生抗病毒抗体。 许多病毒，包括逆转录病毒，会感染成年人，但也会从母亲传染给新生儿 人们普遍认为，新生儿的免疫系统在出生和哺乳期间。 然而，I/LnJ 不发达，增加了感染风险并削弱了对许多疫苗的反应。 小鼠产生病毒中和免疫反应，与接触病毒的年龄无关 因此，阐明 Vic2 的功能机制至关重要。 新生儿免疫系统的未知特征并获得刺激的能力 新生儿的高效病原体特异性免疫 vic2 的鉴定和途径的描绘。 它所控制的是本提案的目标。