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1 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Correspondence
Deepak Shukla
dshukla{at}uic.edu
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These authors contributed equally to this work. ![]()
A supplementary figure showing determination of transfection efficiency in cultured CFs by using fluorescence microscopy is available with the online version of this paper.
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Despite the severity of HSV-2 corneal infections, it is not known which cellular receptor(s) is crucial for HSV-2 entry into the cells of the corneal stroma. It is known in general that HSV entry into host cells is a multi-step process that begins with the initial binding of viral envelope glycoproteins to host-cell surface receptors. It has been documented that glycoproteins B and C (gB and gC) mediate the initial attachment or binding of the virions to cell-surface glycosaminoglycans, the most prominent of which is heparan sulfate (HS) (Herold et al., 1991
; Shukla & Spear, 2001
). Attachment to HS is followed by interaction of gD with its receptor (Krummenacher et al., 1999
, 2000
). Thereafter, a concerted action involving gD, its receptor, three additional HSV glycoproteins (gB, gH and gL) and possibly an additional gH co-receptor triggers fusion of the viral envelope with a host-cell membrane (Gianni et al., 2006
; Parry et al., 2005
; Perez-Romero et al., 2005
; Scanlan et al., 2003
). Subsequently, viral capsids and tegument proteins are released into the cytoplasm of the host cell.
The entry receptors identified include cell-surface molecules derived from three structurally unrelated families. These receptors include herpesvirus entry mediator (HVEM), the nectin family of receptors and a modified form of HS: 3-O-sulfated heparan sulfate (3-OS HS) (Campadelli-Fiume et al., 2000
; O'Donnell et al., 2006
; Shukla et al., 1999a
; Tiwari et al., 2004
, 2005a
; Xia et al., 2002
). Each type of receptor may have a different role in HSV infection and spread in human tissues. For example, nectin-1 is expressed widely in neuronal cells and tissues (Shukla et al., 2000
; Simpson et al., 2005
), whilst HVEM is expressed in lymphoid cells and the trabecular meshwork (Tiwari et al., 2005b
). Recently, we demonstrated that 3-OS HS generated by 3-O-sulfotransferase 3 is a major entry receptor for HSV-1 in corneal fibroblasts (CFs) (Tiwari et al., 2006
).
In an attempt to develop an in vitro model to study HSV-2 entry into the stromal region of the eye, we used primary cultures of human CFs. The CFs were cultured from human tissues derived from healthy eye donors (14 years; provided by the Illinois Eye Bank, Chicago, IL, USA) as described previously (Clement et al., 2006
; Yue & Baum, 1981
). Briefly, the CFs were grown in minimum essential medium (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10 % fetal bovine serum and 5 % calf serum (CS). To determine HSV-2 entry, cultured CFs, along with B78H1 melanoma cells, were plated in 96-well plates (2x104 cells per well) at least 16 h prior to infection. The latter cells are resistant to HSV entry (Shukla et al., 1999b
). A recombinant strain of reporter virus, HSV-2 (333) gJ, engineered to contain a cytomegaloviruslacZ cassette in place of part of the glycoprotein J gene, was used (Martinez & Spear, 2002
). The virus expresses
-galactosidase upon entry into cells. Propagation and titration of HSV-2 (333) gJ were determined on Vero cells. After 6 h, the cells were washed, permeabilized and incubated with ImmunoPure ONPG (3 mg ml1; Pierce) substrate for quantification of
-galactosidase activity from the input viral genome. Enzymic activity was measured by a 96-well plate reader (Spectra Max 190; Molecular Devices) as A410. Viral entry into cultured CFs was compared with that into B78H1 cells that have previously been reported to be naturally resistant to HSV-2 entry (Shukla et al., 1999b
). As shown in Fig. 1(a)
, HSV-2 was able to enter CFs, but not B78H1 cells. This was further confirmed by using X-Gal (1.0 mg ml1; Invitrogen) staining. Cultured CFs exposed to
-galactosidase-encoding recombinants (5 p.f.u. per cell) of HSV-2 virions turned blue (Fig. 1b
). These results demonstrate that cultured CFs are susceptible to HSV-2 entry.
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In order to determine whether gD receptors played an important role in HSV-2 entry into cultured CFs, we performed a gD-mediated interference assay. This assay is based on the principle that cells which are normally susceptible to virus entry become resistant upon cellular expression of gD by sequestration of the receptors by cellular gD (Shukla et al., 1999a
). Cultured human CFs were transfected with a plasmid encoding HSV-2 gD (Muggeridge, 2000
). CFs transfected with vector alone (pcDNA3.1) were used as a control. The primary CF cultures were transfected with TransIT-TKO reagent (Mirus Corporation) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Transfection efficiency in CFs was tested with a green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression plasmid. We estimated that over 80 % of cultured CFs expressed GFP as a result of transfection. The transfection efficiency was estimated by using fluorescence microscopy (see Supplementary Fig. S1, available in JGV Online), which was very similar to a previously reported observation (Tiwari et al., 2006
). Fourteen hours later, the cells were replated on 96-well plates and exposed to
-galactosidase-encoding HSV-2 (333) gJ. Six hours after inoculation, cells were lysed and
-galactosidase activity was determined as a measure of virus entry. It was found that the gD-expressing CFs showed lower entry than identical cells transfected with an empty vector (Fig. 2a
). A very significant decrease in virus entry was probably due to the strong transfection efficiency seen with CFs (Tiwari et al., 2006
). Therefore, HSV-2 entry into human CFs is probably mediated by gD receptors expressed on the CFs.
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R II) for 90 min, starting at 1 : 20 dilutions in PBS at room temperature. Cells were then challenged with identical doses of HSV-2 (333) gJ (5x105 p.f.u. per well) prepared in PBS, 1.0 % glucose and 0.1 % heat-inactivated CS at 37 °C. After 150 min, the cells were washed once with PBS and treated for 1 min with 0.1 M citrate buffer (pH 3.0). After further washing, cells were incubated for 4 h in PBS buffer at 37 °C. The substrate, ImmunoPure ONPG (3 mg ml1; Pierce), was prepared in PBS buffer (Invitrogen) with non-ionic detergent (120 µl 1 % Igepal CA-630; Sigma) and
-galactosidase activity was read as A410. The anti-HVEM antibody doseresponse curve, compared with that generated by using control antibody
-TGF
R II, indicated that higher concentrations of anti-HVEM antibody blocked approximately 90 % of HSV-2 entry (Fig. 3
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Received 2 January 2007;
accepted 11 April 2007.
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