Establishment of Viral Infection and Analysis of Host-Virus Interaction in Drosophila Melanogaster.
J Vis Exp
; (145)2019 03 14.
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| ID: mdl-30933079
ABSTRACT
Virus spreading is a major cause of epidemic diseases. Thus, understanding the interaction between the virus and the host is very important to extend our knowledge of prevention and treatment of viral infection. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has proven to be one of the most efficient and productive model organisms to screen for antiviral factors and investigate virus-host interaction, due to powerful genetic tools and highly conserved innate immune signaling pathways. The procedure described here demonstrates a nano-injection method to establish viral infection and induce systemic antiviral responses in adult flies. The precise control of the viral injection dose in this method enables high experimental reproducibility. Protocols described in this study include the preparation of flies and the virus, the injection method, survival rate analysis, the virus load measurement, and an antiviral pathway assessment. The influence effects of viral infection by the flies' background were mentioned here. This infection method is easy to perform and quantitatively repeatable; it can be applied to screen for host/viral factors involved in virus-host interaction and to dissect the crosstalk between innate immune signaling and other biological pathways in response to viral infection.
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Viroses
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Drosophila melanogaster
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Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno
Tipo de estudo:
Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Animals
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En
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J Vis Exp
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article