Journal article
Representative measles virus infection requires appropriate airway epithelia culture conditions
Journal of virology, Vol.97(10), e0105123
10/31/2023
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01051-23
PMCID: PMC10617594
PMID: 37732787
Abstract
Despite an effective vaccine, measles virus (MeV) remains a critical health burden worldwide. Many fundamental questions remain about its unique biology. Because MeV is a human specific pathogen, research has largely relied on immortalized human cell lines with confirmatory studies in non-human primates or humanized mice. A critical challenge for MeV research is identification of representative in vitro model systems. To study infection, spread, and release in the airways, we utilize primary cultures of airway epithelia cells collected from human donor lungs. This cell culture model recapitulates the pseudostratified columnar epithelial structure and multiple cell types of the conducting airways. In this model, direct cell-to-cell spread of MeV results in well-defined foci termed infectious centers. Here, we demonstrate that infectious center formation following basolateral MeV infection is consistent between two primate species (human and macaque), between two university core facilities that provide primary human airway cultures, and between human primary cells and fresh human tracheal explants. Canine distemper virus infection of differentiated primary cultures of ferret airway epithelial cells also results in infectious center formation suggesting that this mechanism of infection and spread is shared between morbilliviruses. Importantly, the well-defined morphology of the pseudostratified columnar epithelial layer is lost when fetal bovine serum is included in the culture media or when primary cells are passaged twice. Both conditions lead to apical infection by MeV and loss of defined infectious centers. These results suggest that MeV-induced infectious center formation depends on appropriate differentiation, maintenance, and morphology of primary cultures.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Representative measles virus infection requires appropriate airway epithelia culture conditions
- Creators
- Justin W Kaufman - University of IowaBrajesh K Singh - University of IowaLorellin A Durnell - University of IowaPatrick L Sinn - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of virology, Vol.97(10), e0105123
- DOI
- 10.1128/jvi.01051-23
- PMID
- 37732787
- PMCID
- PMC10617594
- ISSN
- 0022-538X
- eISSN
- 1098-5514
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000060, name: HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, award: R01 AI-132402
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 09/21/2023
- Date published
- 10/31/2023
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology; Pulmonary Medicine; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Record Identifier
- 9984466695002771
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