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    Wolbachia wStri blocks Zika virus growth at two independent stages of viral replication

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    Copyright © 2018 Schultz et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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    2018-05-01
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    10.1128/mBio.00738-18
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    Schultz, M.J.
    Tan, A.L.
    Gray, C.N.
    Isern, S.
    Michael, S.F.
    Frydman, Horacio M.
    Connor, John H.
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    Schultz MJ, Tan AL, Gray CN, Isern S, Michael SF, Frydman HM, Connor JH. 2018. Wolbachia wStri blocks Zika virus growth at two independent stages of viral replication. mBio 9:e00738-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00738-18.
    Abstract
    Mosquito-transmitted viruses are spread globally and present a great risk to human health. Among the many approaches investigated to limit the diseases caused by these viruses are attempts to make mosquitos resistant to virus infection. Coinfection of mosquitos with the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis from supergroup A is a recent strategy employed to reduce the capacity for major vectors in the Aedes mosquito genus to transmit viruses, including dengue virus (DENV), Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), and Zika virus (ZIKV). Recently, a supergroup B Wolbachia wStri, isolated from Laodelphax striatellus, was shown to inhibit multiple lineages of ZIKV in Aedes albopictus cells. Here, we show that wStri blocks the growth of positive-sense RNA viruses DENV, CHIKV, ZIKV, and yellow fever virus by greater than 99.9%. wStri presence did not affect the growth of the negative-sense RNA viruses LaCrosse virus or vesicular stomatitis virus. Investigation of the stages of the ZIKV life cycle inhibited by wStri identified two distinct blocks in viral replication. We found a reduction of ZIKV entry into wStri-infected cells. This was partially rescued by the addition of a cholesterol-lipid supplement. Independent of entry, transfected viral genome was unable to replicate in Wolbachia-infected cells. RNA transfection and metabolic labeling studies suggested that this replication defect is at the level of RNA translation, where we saw a 66% reduction in mosquito protein synthesis in wStri-infected cells. This study’s findings increase the potential for application of wStri to block additional arboviruses and also identify specific blocks in viral infection caused by Wolbachia coinfection.
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    Copyright © 2018 Schultz et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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