TY - JOUR
T1 - Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Models to Investigate Human Cytomegalovirus Infection in Neural Cells
AU - D'Aiuto, Leonardo
AU - Di Maio, Roberto
AU - Heath, Brianna
AU - Raimondi, Giorgio
AU - Milosevic, Jadranka
AU - Watson, Annie M.
AU - Bamne, Mikhil
AU - Parks, W. Tony
AU - Yang, Lei
AU - Lin, Bo
AU - Miki, Toshio
AU - Mich-Basso, Jocelyn Danielle
AU - Arav-Boger, Ravit
AU - Sibille, Etienne
AU - Sabunciyan, Sarven
AU - Yolken, Robert
AU - Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit
PY - 2012/11/27
Y1 - 2012/11/27
N2 - Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is one of the leading prenatal causes of congenital mental retardation and deformities world-wide. Access to cultured human neuronal lineages, necessary to understand the species specific pathogenic effects of HCMV, has been limited by difficulties in sustaining primary human neuronal cultures. Human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells now provide an opportunity for such research. We derived iPS cells from human adult fibroblasts and induced neural lineages to investigate their susceptibility to infection with HCMV strain Ad169. Analysis of iPS cells, iPS-derived neural stem cells (NSCs), neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and neurons suggests that (i) iPS cells are not permissive to HCMV infection, i.e., they do not permit a full viral replication cycle; (ii) Neural stem cells have impaired differentiation when infected by HCMV; (iii) NPCs are fully permissive for HCMV infection; altered expression of genes related to neural metabolism or neuronal differentiation is also observed; (iv) most iPS-derived neurons are not permissive to HCMV infection; and (v) infected neurons have impaired calcium influx in response to glutamate.
AB - Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is one of the leading prenatal causes of congenital mental retardation and deformities world-wide. Access to cultured human neuronal lineages, necessary to understand the species specific pathogenic effects of HCMV, has been limited by difficulties in sustaining primary human neuronal cultures. Human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells now provide an opportunity for such research. We derived iPS cells from human adult fibroblasts and induced neural lineages to investigate their susceptibility to infection with HCMV strain Ad169. Analysis of iPS cells, iPS-derived neural stem cells (NSCs), neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and neurons suggests that (i) iPS cells are not permissive to HCMV infection, i.e., they do not permit a full viral replication cycle; (ii) Neural stem cells have impaired differentiation when infected by HCMV; (iii) NPCs are fully permissive for HCMV infection; altered expression of genes related to neural metabolism or neuronal differentiation is also observed; (iv) most iPS-derived neurons are not permissive to HCMV infection; and (v) infected neurons have impaired calcium influx in response to glutamate.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0049700
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0049700
M3 - Article
C2 - 23209593
AN - SCOPUS:84870274844
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 7
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 11
M1 - e49700
ER -