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Department of Comparative Physiology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Correspondence
Pikul Jiravanichpaisal
Pikul.Jiravanichpaisal{at}ebc.uu.se
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To date the mechanism of how WSSV gains entry into the host cell is unknown. Since various tissues are susceptible to WSSV, the viral receptor on the surface of the cells might be a common receptor such as for example integrins, which are present in the membranes of haemocytes (Holmblad et al., 1997
) and haematopoietic cells (hpt cells) in crayfish (unpublished data). Several studies have reported that many RGD (ArgGlyAsp)-containing viral proteins, such as the penton protein of adenovirus (Huang et al., 1995
), the foot-and-mouth virus coat protein (Lea et al., 1995
) and the Coxsackie type virus (Roivainen et al., 1994
) serve as ligands through which these viruses bind to integrins on the cell surface and then gain entry into the cell. Some proteins of WSSV such as VP281 or VP36B, VP31, VP36A, VP110, VP136A and VP664 also contain RGD motifs (Huang et al., 2002
; Tsai et al., 2004
). Taken together, it is reasonable to suggest that a WSSV infection might be mediated by the adhesion of their RGD structural proteins to the target cells. However, further studies are needed to confirm this.
The present study is aimed at examining the susceptibility of freshwater crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus to WSSV. Hpt cells of crayfish can be established in an in vitro system for several months (Söderhäll et al., 2005
). Thus, besides pathological studies the use of hpt cell culture may provide a tool to gain a better understanding of the molecular mechanism of WSSV or other virus infections.
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Viral inoculation preparations.
The principal inocula used for virus infection experiments in this study were (i) plasma from WSSV-infected crayfish; (ii) sucrose-gradient purified WSSV or (iii) a gill homogenate from WSSV-infected crayfish. To prepare plasma-containing WSSV, haemolymph was withdrawn from moribund WSSV-infected crayfish. Haemolymph was centrifuged at 2500 g for 10 min at 4 °C and then the supernatants were pooled together and centrifuged at 16 000 g for 1 h at 4 °C. Supernatants were then filtered through 0·45 µM Millipore membrane. To prepare purified WSSV, a gill homogenate from WSSV-infected crayfish was purified by sucrose-gradient ultracentrifugation (van Hulten et al., 2001
), except that crayfish saline (CFS; 0·2 M NaCl, 5·4 mM KCl, 10 mM CaCl2, 2·6 mM MgCl2, 2 mM NaHCO3, pH 6·8) or L15 medium was used to resuspend the pellet. A gill homogenate from WSSV-infected crayfish was prepared as described previously (Jiravanichpaisal et al., 2001
). As a control, mock-infected cell culture was treated with plasma, sucrose-gradient purified gill solution or a gill homogenate from normal crayfish, and was then prepared in the same manner as above or UV-inactivated plasma-containing WSSV. The same amount of protein was used as a mock infection in control experiments.
Treatment with UV-irradiated virus.
WSSV was UV irradiated at 254 nm at a distance of 10 cm for 5 min on ice to eliminate its infectivity. The loss of infectivity was confirmed by injection into crayfish. All WSSV stock solutions or UV-inactivated WSSV solution were kept at 80 °C until used.
WSSV replication in cell culture analysed by RT-PCR.
Total RNA from cells was extracted using Trizol (Gibco-BRL) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The precipitated RNA was then resuspended in 100 µl diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC)-treated sterile water and stored at 80 °C until used. These RNA samples were then subjected to DNase treatment with RNase-free DNase I (Ambion) at a concentration of 2 U per sample for 30 min at 37 °C. Next, the DNase I enzyme activity was terminated and RNA was extracted once with phenol plus chloroform and once with chloroform only. Finally, RNA samples were precipitated with 2-propanol and the pellets were washed with 70 % ethanol and resuspended in 15 µl DEPC-treated sterile water. These RNA samples were used for conventional PCR and RT-PCR to detect the presence of DNA contamination and VP28 gene of WSSV, respectively. For RT-PCR, aliquots (250 ng) were reverse transcribed using 50 µM Oligo(dT)20 primer and ThermoScript reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen). PCRs were subsequently performed according to the manufacturer's specifications with the following primers: VP28 (GenBank accession no. AF502435) forward, 5'-TCACTCTTTCGGTCGTGTCG-3' and reverse, 5'-CCACACACAAAGGTGCCAAC-3', and a control RT-PCR analysis of expression of the crayfish housekeeping gene, 40S ribosomal protein, was also undertaken; 40S primers forward, 5'-CCAGGACCCCCAAACTTCTTAG-3' and reverse, 5'-GAAAACTGCCACAGCCGTTG-3', respectively. Amplification reaction of VP28 was performed for 32 cycles in a 50 µl reaction solution, containing 1·5 µl of the first strand cDNA reaction solution and 10 µM each of the forward and reverse primers. Similarly, amplification reaction of 40S was performed for 28 cycles in the same manner from the same RNA for comparison. The products were then analysed by agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide and visualized by UV light. The expected size of VP28 and 40S were 506 and 359 nt, respectively. In all RNA RT-PCR reactions, RT-PCR without reverse transcriptase was also performed in order to prove that no DNA was present in RNA samples.
In situ hybridization.
To determine that WSSV replicated in the nuclei of hpt cell culture, hpt cells were fixed in 10 % formaldehyde on coverslips and kept in 70 % ethanol at 20 °C. A digoxigenin (DIG)-labelled WSSV-specific probe was prepared. Hybridization and staining procedures were carried out as described previously (Jiravanichpaisal et al., 2001
) except that the concentration of Proteinase K (Roche) was decreased to 0·5 µg ml1.
Temperature-dependent viral binding and replication of WSSV in hpt cell culture.
Hpt cells were aliquoted onto plates and then each plate was incubated at different temperatures: 4, 16, 25 and 32 °C for different time intervals 36 h, 3, 5 and 7 days. To test whether temperature affects virus binding to hpt cells, the cells were allowed to attach to the well surface for 30 min at 4, 16 or 25 °C, respectively. WSSV particles were added and then further incubated for 6 h. Free virions were removed by washing the cells and all plates were incubated at 25 °C. After 4 and 5 days, the infected cells from all plates were checked for virus replication by using RT-PCR.
Effect of astakine in plasma on the susceptibility of hpt cells to WSSV.
Hpt cells from crayfish were prepared and cultured in 96-well plates. Then, the same amount of WSSV was added to all wells. After adsorption overnight at 25 °C, the inoculum suspension was removed and the cells were washed twice with medium. Then, fresh medium with 5 % AF was added to six wells containing hpt cells and only medium was added to another six wells. For the duration of the experiment, 50 % of incubation medium was changed every second day. On day 4 and 6, cells from all wells were washed twice with CPBS and then total RNA was extracted from both treatments to monitor WSSV infection by using RT-PCR.
To investigate whether integrin receptors might be involved in virus entry, hpt cells were incubated with a peptide including an RGD motif [GlyArgGlyAspSer (Sigma)] or a peptide with reverse amino acids, SerAspGlyArgGly (Sigma) as a control, for 2 h at 25 °C. The final concentrations of both peptides in the medium were 50 and 100 µM, respectively. Then, WSSV was added to all wells. After incubation with WSSV overnight, the cultures were washed with medium three times to remove viral particles and were further incubated for 5 days at the same temperature. WSSV-infected cells were monitored by using in situ hybridization and RT-PCR methods.
Transmission electron microscope.
At 5 days post-infection, hpt cells were washed three times with CPBS and then fixed in 2·5 % glutaraldehyde in CPBS at room temperature for 1 h. These cells were mechanically harvested using a scraper and then centrifuged at 9500 g for 10 min. The pellet was post-fixed in 1 % osmium tetroxide for 1 h then washed again with CPBS. The fixed cells were dehydrated in a series of ethanol followed by acetone and then embedded in Epon resin. Samples were sectioned with a LKB microtome and a diamond knife. Sections were stained with uranylacetate and lead citrate.
Virulence of WSSV replicated in hpt cell culture.
Cell-free WSSV was prepared from WSSV-producing hpt cell culture. Hpt cells were cultured in a six-well plate at a density of 1·0x105 cells per well and then incubated at 25 °C. Following 5 days of viral inoculation, cells were washed with CFS buffer three times, harvested, homogenized in CFS buffer and then filtered through a 0·45 µm filter (Millipore) aliquoted and stored at 80 °C until use. Before the infectivity test, all cell-free virus solutions were adjusted to the same amount of protein (0·85 mg ml1) and 200 µl of each solution was injected into each crayfish. Each injected crayfish was monitored by PCR amplification of viral sequences in haemocytes.
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If hpt cells were induced to proliferate by AF for 3 days at 16 °C, the cell monolayers showed approximately 80 % of fibroblast-like cells (Fig. 1c
). Then, plasma-containing WSSV was added and the fibroblast-like cells rounded up (Fig. 2a
). In contrast, if the fibroblast-like cells were treated with the same plasma-containing WSSV, in which WSSV had been inactivated with UV light for 5 min, then the appearance of fibroblast-like cells still remained (Fig. 2b
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To verify that WSSV was replicating inside the nucleus of hpt cells, we detected WSSV particles by using in situ hybridization (Fig. 3a and b)
. Infected cells attached to the surface of the coverslip had a dark-brown signal as shown in Fig. 3(b)
when compared with the control in Fig. 3(a)
. Electron microscope examination of ultrathin sections of uninfected and infected hpt cells (Fig. 4ac
), showed several WSSV particles in the nucleus of infected cells (Fig. 4c
, arrows). Hpt cells from another species of freshwater crayfish, Astacus astacus, were isolated and cultured with the same medium supplemented with P. leniusculus AF. Then, these cells were used to replicate WSSV and this virus was also able to replicate in these cells.
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Astakine is necessary to promote cell proliferation and differentiation of hpt cells and hence the effect of crude AF on WSSV susceptibility was studied. As a result, WSSV replication in hpt cells with AF was higher than in hpt cells without AF as shown in Fig. 7
, and the intensity of WSSV bands at days 4 and 6 were higher than in hpt cells without any AF addition.
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| DISCUSSION |
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Although several studies have reported the establishment of primary cell cultures from the lymphoid organ (Oka organ) of shrimp, only a few of these primary cell cultures have been shown to be susceptible to WSSV (Kasornchandra et al., 1999
; Itami et al., 1999
; Tapay et al., 1997
; Wang et al., 2000
) and one ovarian primary culture for WSSV (Maeda et al., 2003
, 2004
). As the infection progressed these primary cells became shrunken and detached from the surface of the culture vessels. Plaque-like clear areas appeared as focal lesions of cytopathic effect (CPE). In contrast, Chen & Wang (1999)
reported no such susceptibility when cell monolayers derived from normal Oka organ of P. monodon, P. japonicus and P. penicillatus were incubated with either WSSV or YHV. However, their experiments showed that CPE foci were only observed in cell culture derived from WSSV- and YHV-infected Oka organ 57 days after formation of a confluent cell layer. In the present study, plaque-like areas or CPE foci were not found, but all infected cells rounded up, shrunk and detached from the substratum, but some infected cells, which still were partially attached, appeared to be intact. It may be that these cells were infected late during the experiment and therefore still remained viable. Focal lesions of CPE were never observed in hpt cell culture after virus infection. Wang et al. (2002)
also observed massive WSSV particles in the nucleus of target cells in vivo without any CPE foci. Therefore, we suggest that WSSV affects individual cells of hpt cell culture in vitro in the same manner as in vivo.
Interestingly, when plasma-containing WSSV was added to differentiate hpt cells these fiboblast-like cells rounded up, whereas UV-inactivated plasma-containing WSSV had no effect. This clearly shows that live WSSV is the causative agent of this rounding up of hpt cells.
Although the amount of WSSV particles inside hpt cultured cells was much lower compared with in vivo infected cells, WSSV that replicated in the cell culture was highly infective because crayfish died after injection of homogenized infected cultured cells. This strongly suggests that replication of WSSV was complete and mature virions were produced in the cell culture. Furthermore, the cells can survive at a wide range of temperatures that make them very useful for studies on virus isolation, replication and pathology. To date more than six viruses have been found to infect crayfish, but only pathological studies and electron microscopical examinations have been reported so far (Edgerton et al., 2002
). Our hpt cell culture is a useful tool for studying in detail the interaction between crayfish and shrimp viruses and their target cells.
Since astakine promotes hpt cell proliferation (Söderhäll et al., 2005
) as well as virus replication, it is likely that dividing cells favour the replication of WSSV. This is also supported since at low temperature there is no virus replication or cell proliferation, whereas at higher temperatures, above 16 °C, both virus replication and cell proliferation are high (Jiravanichpaisal et al., 2004
). This clearly suggests that temperature affects WSSV replication regardless of the host-immune response and/or host variation.
Virus entry is initiated when a virion first binds to the surface of a potential host cell. The events that occur during the first encounter are unclear and are likely to vary for different viruses. Viral attachment is mediated by viral attachment proteins on the surface of the virus particle and virus receptors expressed on the target cell (Klasse et al., 1998
). Integrins are one member of virus receptors for enveloped viruses (Wang et al., 1992
). However, in the present study, GRGDS peptides containing the RGD motif did not display any effects on the infection efficiency of WSSV. This may suggest that this virus is not using integrins of the host cell as a receptor to gain entry into host cells and that they use alternative receptors when integrins are not available. In many systems, viruses appear to bind directly to the cell surface molecules that mediate internalization. These can be considered primary receptors. In the absence of these primary receptors, viruses may use other cell surface components for entry into cells. For instance, HIV-1 can bind to both CD4 and galactosyl ceramide and Semliki Forest virus can bind to MHC class I and to an unknown receptor (Klasse et al., 1998
). Moreover, threonine (T) at the fourth position (RGDT) has been reported to be important for any protein to bind to integrins via the RGD motif (Plow et al., 2000
). Tsai et al. (2004)
has suggested that two structural proteins, VP36A and VP31, contain a threonine at the fourth position after RGD. Hence, these two structural proteins might interact with integrin of the host cell and generate the infection.
Most insect cell lines are cultured at 2529 °C. These temperatures are probably suitable for most insect cells, since they are consistent with the temperatures at which the insects live and thrive. However, Winstanley & Crock (1993)
showed that initiating and maintaining codling moth cell lines at lower temperatures (18 or 21 °C) was instrumental in keeping them permissive to an insect baculovirus. In freshwater crayfish, although 16 °C is suitable for hpt culture (Söderhäll et al., 2005
), a higher temperature is required to make these cells more susceptible to WSSV in both viral binding and replication. This result supports our previous study in vivo (Jiravanichpaisal et al., 2004
) that replication is more efficient at a higher temperature. Since, 32 °C is not a suitable temperature for hpt culture, the efficiency of WSSV replication is also low as shown in Fig. 5
, where at day 3 WSSV replication is reduced when compared with 36 h. However, this result does not clearly explain that 32 °C or higher temperatures will affect WSSV replication directly. This problem can be elucidated by using warm-adapted crayfish or shrimp to investigate this problem. However, it has been suggested that hyperthermia, at 32 °C, might facilitate apoptosis in WSSV-infected shrimp and might be one of the mechanisms responsible for increased survival of infected shrimp maintained at 32 °C (Granja et al., 2003
).
In conclusion, hpt cell culture can be used to replicate WSSV and most likely other crustacean viruses, especially those which are specific for freshwater crayfish and infect hpt cells. But perhaps of greater importance is the possibility to use this proliferating cell culture to study the ways in which different viruses bind to and gain entry into host cells and further the interaction between virus and host cells. This is particularly important for crustaceans since molecular genetic tools are still not available.
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