TY - JOUR
T1 - Viral genome imaging of hepatitis C virus to probe heterogeneous viral infection and responses to antiviral therapies
AU - Ramanan, Vyas
AU - Trehan, Kartik
AU - Ong, Mei-Lyn
AU - Luna, Joseph M
AU - Hoffmann, Hans-Heinrich
AU - Espiritu, Christine
AU - Sheahan, Timothy P
AU - Chandrasekar, Hamsika
AU - Schwartz, Robert E
AU - Christine, Kathleen S
AU - Rice, Charles M
AU - van Oudenaarden, Alexander
AU - Bhatia, Sangeeta N
N1 - Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/7
Y1 - 2016/7
N2 - Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a positive single-stranded RNA virus of enormous global health importance, with direct-acting antiviral therapies replacing an immunostimulatory interferon-based regimen. The dynamics of HCV positive and negative-strand viral RNAs (vRNAs) under antiviral perturbations have not been studied at the single-cell level, leaving a gap in our understanding of antiviral kinetics and host-virus interactions. Here, we demonstrate quantitative imaging of HCV genomes in multiple infection models, and multiplexing of positive and negative strand vRNAs and host antiviral RNAs. We capture the varying kinetics with which antiviral drugs with different mechanisms of action clear HCV infection, finding the NS5A inhibitor daclatasvir to induce a rapid decline in negative-strand viral RNAs. We also find that the induction of host antiviral genes upon interferon treatment is positively correlated with viral load in single cells. This study adds smFISH to the toolbox available for analyzing the treatment of RNA virus infections.
AB - Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a positive single-stranded RNA virus of enormous global health importance, with direct-acting antiviral therapies replacing an immunostimulatory interferon-based regimen. The dynamics of HCV positive and negative-strand viral RNAs (vRNAs) under antiviral perturbations have not been studied at the single-cell level, leaving a gap in our understanding of antiviral kinetics and host-virus interactions. Here, we demonstrate quantitative imaging of HCV genomes in multiple infection models, and multiplexing of positive and negative strand vRNAs and host antiviral RNAs. We capture the varying kinetics with which antiviral drugs with different mechanisms of action clear HCV infection, finding the NS5A inhibitor daclatasvir to induce a rapid decline in negative-strand viral RNAs. We also find that the induction of host antiviral genes upon interferon treatment is positively correlated with viral load in single cells. This study adds smFISH to the toolbox available for analyzing the treatment of RNA virus infections.
U2 - 10.1016/j.virol.2016.04.020
DO - 10.1016/j.virol.2016.04.020
M3 - Article
C2 - 27128351
SN - 0042-6822
VL - 494
SP - 236
EP - 247
JO - Virology
JF - Virology
ER -