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  • Poxviruses like the vaccinia virus (VACV) can manipulate the host's immune response to infection through various immune modulators.
  • After extensive lab testing, the modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) showed a significant ability to trigger type I interferon (IFN) responses in mice and dendritic cells, unlike VACV.
  • Research indicated that the IFN inhibitors present in VACV, particularly the soluble IFN decoy receptor B18, were lost during the MVA mutation process, leading to a more robust immune response.

Article Abstract

Poxviruses such as virulent vaccinia virus (VACV) strain Western Reserve encode a broad range of immune modulators that interfere with host responses to infection. Upon more than 570 in vitro passages in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF), chorioallantois VACV Ankara (CVA) accumulated mutations that resulted in highly attenuated modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA). MVA infection of mice and of dendritic cells (DC) induced significant type I interferon (IFN) responses, whereas infection with VACV alone or in combination with MVA did not. These results implied that VACV expressed an IFN inhibitor(s) that was functionally deleted in MVA. To further characterize the IFN inhibitor(s), infection experiments were carried out with CVA strains isolated after 152 (CVA152) and 386 CEF passages (CVA386). Interestingly, neither CVA152 nor CVA386 induced IFN-alpha, whereas the latter variant did induce IFN-beta. This pattern suggested a consecutive loss of inhibitors during MVA attenuation. Similar to supernatants of VACV- and CVA152-infected DC cultures, recombinantly expressed soluble IFN decoy receptor B18, which is encoded in the VACV genome, inhibited MVA-induced IFN-alpha but not IFN-beta. In the same direction, a B18R-deficient VACV variant triggered only IFN-alpha, confirming B18 as the soluble IFN-alpha inhibitor. Interestingly, VACV infection inhibited IFN responses induced by a multitude of different stimuli, including oligodeoxynucleotides containing CpG motifs, poly(I:C), and vesicular stomatitis virus. Collectively, the data presented show that VACV-mediated IFN inhibition is a multistep process involving secreted factors such as B18 plus intracellular components that cooperate to efficiently shut off systemic IFN-alpha and IFN-beta responses.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2643777PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01617-08DOI Listing

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