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To understand the evolution of GII.P6-GII.6 and GII.P7-GII.6 strains, the prevalent human norovirus genotypes, we analysed both the RdRp region and VP1 gene in globally collected strains using authentic bioinformatics technologies. A common ancestor of the P6- and P7-type RdRp region emerged approximately 50 years ago and a common ancestor of the P6- and P7-type VP1 gene emerged approximately 110 years ago. Subsequently, the RdRp region and VP1 gene evolved. Moreover, the evolutionary rates were significantly faster for the P6-type RdRp region and VP1 gene than for the P7-type RdRp region and VP1 genes. Large genetic divergence was observed in the P7-type RdRp region and VP1 gene compared with the P6-type RdRp region and VP1 gene. The phylodynamics of the RdRp region and VP1 gene fluctuated after the year 2000. Positive selection sites in VP1 proteins were located in the antigenicity-related protruding 2 domain, and these sites overlapped with conformational epitopes. These results suggest that the GII.6 VP1 gene and VP1 proteins evolved uniquely due to recombination between the P6- and P7-type RdRp regions in the HuNoV GII.P6-GII.6 and GII.P7-GII.6 virus strains.
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Infecções por Caliciviridae , Gastroenterite , Norovirus , Humanos , Norovirus/genética , Norovirus/metabolismo , RNA Polimerase Dependente de RNA/genética , RNA Polimerase Dependente de RNA/metabolismo , Genótipo , FilogeniaRESUMO
Background: The importance of support for the mothers of infants to cope with parenting stress due to isolated parenting environments is being emphasized. In order to reduce the parenting stress in parenting mothers while improving the quality of parenting support for them, it is important to identify factors influencing such stress. We investigated the effects of artwork production in different styles, conducted self-evaluation of such production, and identified factors influencing parenting stress in mothers, involving those who participated in a handprint artwork production workshop. Methods: We included 140 mothers who participated in a handprint artwork production workshop, dividing them into 2 groups: A: 70 with children younger than 3 years of age who engaged in artwork production alone; and B: 70 who engaged in it through collaboration with their children aged 3 years or older. The instructor distributed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire to all the mothers, and collected their responses. The questionnaire examined the following items: attributes, the number of participations in the workshop, artwork production self-evaluation, and parenting stress. Results: There were 140 (100%) responses, and the number of valid responses was 65 from Group A and 54 from Group B, a total of 119 (85%). The mean [parenting strain] score was significantly higher in Group B. Multiple regression analysis identified the child's age and presence/absence of his/her siblings overall and in Group A, and
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Molecular interactions between respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion protein (F protein) and the cellular receptor Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and myeloid differentiation factor-2 (MD-2) protein complex are unknown. Thus, to reveal the detailed molecular interactions between them, in silico analyses were performed using various bioinformatics techniques. The present simulation data showed that the neutralizing antibody (NT-Ab) binding sites in both prefusion and postfusion proteins at sites II and IV were involved in the interactions between them and the TLR4 molecule. Moreover, the binding affinity between postfusion proteins and the TLR4/MD-2 complex was higher than that between prefusion proteins and the TLR4/MD-2 complex. This increased binding affinity due to conformational changes in the F protein may be able to form syncytium in RSV-infected cells. These results may contribute to better understand the infectivity and pathogenicity (syncytium formation) of RSV.
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Infecções por Vírus Respiratório Sincicial , Vírus Sincicial Respiratório Humano , Humanos , Anticorpos Neutralizantes , Anticorpos Antivirais , Sítios de Ligação de Anticorpos , Receptor 4 Toll-Like/metabolismo , Proteínas Virais de Fusão , Subfamília B de Transportador de Cassetes de Ligação de ATP , Ligação ProteicaRESUMO
We performed evolution, phylodynamics, and reinfection-related antigenicity analyses of respiratory syncytial virus subgroup A (RSV-A) fusion (F) gene in globally collected strains (1465 strains) using authentic bioinformatics methods. The time-scaled evolutionary tree using the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method estimated that a common ancestor of the RSV-A, RSV-B, and bovine-RSV diverged at around 450 years ago, and RSV-A and RSV-B diverged around 250 years ago. Finally, the RSV-A F gene formed eight genotypes (GA1-GA7 and NA1) over the last 80 years. Phylodynamics of RSV-A F gene, including all genotype strains, increased twice in the 1990s and 2010s, while patterns of each RSV-A genotype were different. Phylogenetic distance analysis suggested that the genetic distances of the strains were relatively short (less than 0.05). No positive selection sites were estimated, while many negative selection sites were found. Moreover, the F protein 3D structure mapping and conformational epitope analysis implied that the conformational epitopes did not correspond to the neutralizing antibody binding sites of the F protein. These results suggested that the RSV-A F gene is relatively conserved, and mismatches between conformational epitopes and neutralizing antibody binding sites of the F protein are responsible for the virus reinfection.
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Evolução Molecular , Infecções por Vírus Respiratório Sincicial/virologia , Vírus Sinciciais Respiratórios/genética , Proteínas do Envelope Viral/genética , Animais , Anticorpos Neutralizantes , Teorema de Bayes , Bovinos , Epitopos , Genótipo , Humanos , Cadeias de Markov , Filogenia , Vírus Sincicial Respiratório Humano/genética , Vírus Sinciciais Respiratórios/classificação , Proteínas do Envelope Viral/químicaRESUMO
ABSTRACT: During the 2014 to 2018 seasons, we conducted a longitudinal study involving enteric virus surveillance in bivalves, including natural oysters and clams harvested in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Some norovirus (NoV) contaminations were detected in natural oysters, whereas no enteric virus was found in clams. NoVs detected in oysters were of the genotypes GII.4 and GII.6, both of which are closely related genetically to the NoV strains prevalent in humans. We found low level of enteric virus contamination in bivalves collected along the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture. The possibility of food poisoning caused by these viruses appears low, and few cases of infectious disease have been observed in the surrounding area. The harvest timing was more related to contamination quantity than the harvest area in many enteric viruses. Our results highlight that contamination of bivalves by enteric viruses may depend upon the prevalence of human diarrhea and illness.
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Bivalves , Infecções por Caliciviridae , Norovirus , Ostreidae , Animais , Infecções por Caliciviridae/epidemiologia , Genótipo , Humanos , Japão , Estudos Longitudinais , Norovirus/genéticaRESUMO
We performed the genotyping and phylogenetic analysis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) isolated from 17 infants with bronchiolitis in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 2005 and 2006. The major genes in these samples (attachment [G] glycoprotein gene, fusion [F] protein gene, and nucleoprotein [N] gene) were sequenced and analyzed genetically. Phylogenetic analysis of these genes revealed that 7 and 10 strains could be classified into subgroups A and B, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis of the G gene revealed that the subgroup A and B strains were unique genotypes GA2 and BA, respectively. Moreover, the amino acid sequences for these genotypes suggested a relatively high frequency of amino acid substitutions in the G and F proteins in these strains, whereas the N protein was highly homologous. These results suggest that RSV genotypes GA2 and BA may be associated with bronchiolitis in the cases studied here.
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Bronquiolite Viral/virologia , Infecções por Vírus Respiratório Sincicial/virologia , Vírus Sincicial Respiratório Humano/genética , Vírus Sincicial Respiratório Humano/isolamento & purificação , Proteínas Virais/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Substituição de Aminoácidos , Genótipo , Humanos , Lactente , Japão , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Proteínas do Nucleocapsídeo/química , Proteínas do Nucleocapsídeo/genética , Proteínas do Nucleocapsídeo/metabolismo , Filogenia , Vírus Sincicial Respiratório Humano/classificação , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Proteínas do Envelope Viral/química , Proteínas do Envelope Viral/genética , Proteínas do Envelope Viral/metabolismo , Proteínas Virais de Fusão/química , Proteínas Virais de Fusão/genética , Proteínas Virais de Fusão/metabolismo , Proteínas Virais/química , Proteínas Virais/metabolismoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: It is clear that inflammation plays an important role in developing chronic lung disease in preterm infants. The purpose of the present study is to investigate changes of serum soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 levels over time in infants with chronic lung disease. METHODS: The serum levels of soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 were measured after delivery, and at 7, 14, 21 and 28 days of age in 10 infants with chronic lung disease and in 18 infants without chronic lung disease. RESULTS: The serum level of soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 was significantly higher in infants with chronic lung disease than in infants without chronic lung disease after delivery. The differences between these two groups remained up to 28 days of age. CONCLUSION: Prenatal inflammation with persistence into postnatal inflammation may be involved in the onset of chronic lung disease.
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Doenças do Prematuro/sangue , Pneumopatias/sangue , Receptores Tipo I de Fatores de Necrose Tumoral/sangue , Doença Crônica , Feminino , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , MasculinoRESUMO
AIM: The aim of our study was (i) to determine whether chorioamnionitis (CAM) is associated with an elevated soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor I (sTNFR-I) level and (ii) to examine the time course of the concentration of sTNFR-I in preterm infants after birth. METHODS: We measured sTNFR-I levels in the cord blood of 112 preterm infants (gestational age < or =34 weeks), and those in peripheral blood of 30 preterm infants on days 7, 14, 21 and 28. RESULTS: The median value for the sTNFR-I was significantly elevated in 33 infants with CAM at stage 3 (4618 pg/mL) compared with the 52 infants without CAM (2866 pg/mL), or the 13 infants with CAM at stage 1 (3638 pg/mL) and the 14 infants at stage 2 (3242 pg/mL). The severity of CAM is an independent factor for the elevation of cord blood sTNFR-I. The sTNFR-I level on day 0 was significantly higher in eight infants with CAM at stage 3 than in the 22 infants without CAM or with CAM at stage 1 and 2; however there were no significant differences on days 7, 14, 21 and 28. The serum level of sTNFR-I showed a significant gradual decline with time. CONCLUSIONS: We suggest that there is an association between elevated sTNFR-I levels in cord blood and maternal CAM, and this elevation may reflect the fetal inflammation. However the elevation of sTNFR-I could not persist postnatally for a long time.
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Corioamnionite/sangue , Sangue Fetal/química , Receptores Tipo I de Fatores de Necrose Tumoral/sangue , Feminino , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Recém-Nascido Prematuro , GravidezRESUMO
Adjuvants in vaccines are immune stimulants that play an important role in the induction of effective and appropriate immune responses to vaccine component(s). Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DPT) vaccine contains not only aluminum hydrate (alum) to enhance the immune response to the vaccine ingredients, but also, both for that purpose and as a principal ingredient, pertussis toxin (PT). However, both adjuvants strongly promote T helper (Th) 2 type immune responses. Th1 and Th2 type immune responses are counterbalanced in vivo, and a Th2-prone immune response is not effective against intracellular infections but promotes IgE production, which is related to allergic disease. In this study, we used the CpG motif contained in oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG-ODN), which has an adjuvant effect and also induces the Th1 response, as an adjuvant to this vaccine, and we investigated its adjuvanticity and its potential to modulate immune responses to DPT vaccine. Administration of DPT vaccine with CpG-ODN (DPT-alum/ODN) to mice significantly reduced the total IgE levels and increased the anti-PT specific IgG2a titer in serum, in comparison with ordinary DPT vaccine (DPT-alum). Moreover, we investigated the antibody response to orally administrated ovalbumin (OVA) after vaccine administration. In the DPT-alum/ODN-administered group, the OVA specific IgE production in serum greatly decreased in comparison with that in the DPT-alum-administered group. These data indicate that CpG-ODN was not useful only as an efficient vaccine adjuvant but also shifted the immune responses substantially toward Th1 and modulated the Th1/Th2 immune response in DPT vaccine. These data suggested new applications of CpG-ODN as adjuvants in DPT vaccine.
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Adjuvantes Imunológicos/farmacologia , Vacina contra Difteria, Tétano e Coqueluche/imunologia , Imunidade Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Oligonucleotídeos/farmacologia , Células Th1/imunologia , Células Th2/imunologia , Compostos de Alúmen/farmacologia , Animais , Antígenos/administração & dosagem , Antígenos/imunologia , Ilhas de CpG , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Feminino , Hipersensibilidade/prevenção & controle , Imunoglobulina G/análise , Imunoglobulina G/biossíntese , Intubação Gastrointestinal , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Ovalbumina/imunologiaRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: In order to predict the late-development of chronic lung disease of prematurity (CLD), cytokines in the cord blood were assessed in this study. STUDY DESIGN: Eighteen premature infants with CLD were enrolled. Cord blood plasma levels of cytokines of these infants and 12 control infants without CLD were measured including interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, interferon (IFN)-gamma, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, soluble TNF receptor-I, and soluble IL-6 receptor using a cytometric bead array and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. RESULTS: The cord blood IL-6, IL-8, and sTNFR-I levels were significantly elevated in CLD infants compared with those in control (P < .05). IL-1beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-10, and IFN-gamma were undetectable in both groups. CLD infants with maternal chorioamnionitis had higher IL-6 than those without chorioamnionitis (P < .01). In CLD infants, IL-6 was higher in the infants who required prolonged oxygen therapy (P < .05). CONCLUSION: Elevated inflammatory cytokines in the cord blood are associated with the progression to CLD.
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Citocinas/sangue , Sangue Fetal/metabolismo , Recém-Nascido Prematuro , Síndrome do Desconforto Respiratório do Recém-Nascido/sangue , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Doença Crônica , Progressão da Doença , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Feminino , Idade Gestacional , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Interleucina-6/sangue , Interleucina-8/sangue , Pneumopatias/sangue , Pneumopatias/diagnóstico , Masculino , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Receptores Tipo I de Fatores de Necrose Tumoral/sangue , Síndrome do Desconforto Respiratório do Recém-Nascido/diagnósticoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: In the process of apoptosis, it is known that the transition of cytochrome c from mitochondria into the cytosol occurs, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha is one of the molecules responsible for this event. But in the state of hypercytokine induced by D-galactosamine (D-GaIN)/Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the localization of cytochrome c is little known. METHODS: Rats were administrated with D-GaIN(700 mg/kg)/LPS(200 microg/kg). Blood and tissue samples were collected and examined for levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, the apoptosis of liver cells, and the localization of cytochrome c. RESULT: Before administration of D-GaIN/LPS, cytochrome c was definitely localized in the mitochondria. At 2 h after simultaneous administration of D-GaIN/LPS, cytochrome c had accumulated in the cytosol following abrupt increases of plasma TNF-alpha. Massive cell destruction due to apoptosis proved by Terminal deoxynucleo-tidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling staining was observed in liver tissue 4 h later and markedly increased levels of cytochrome c were detected in the plasma 12 h after D-GaIN/LPS administration. CONCLUSION: Liver injury induced by simultaneous administration of D-GaIN/LPS was closely associated with the production of TNF-alpha, and also with the dynamic movement of cytochrome c from the mitochondria into the cytosol, and then into the systemic circulation. The detection of plasma cytochrome c levels may be a useful clinical tool for the detection of apoptosis in vivo.