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Viruses ; 15(8)2023 07 27.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37631975

RESUMEN

Zika virus (ZIKV) disease continues to be a threat to public health, and it is estimated that millions of people have been infected and that there have been more cases of serious complications than those already reported. Despite many studies on the pathogenesis of ZIKV, several of the genes involved in the malformations associated with viral infection are still unknown. In this work, the morphological and molecular changes in the cortex and cerebellum of mice infected with ZIKV were evaluated. Neonatal BALB/c mice were inoculated with ZIKV intraperitoneally, and the respective controls were inoculated with a solution devoid of the virus. At day 10 postinoculation, the mice were euthanized to measure the expression of the markers involved in cortical and cerebellar neurodevelopment. The infected mice presented morphological changes accompanied by calcifications, as well as a decrease in most of the markers evaluated in the cortex and cerebellum. The modifications found could be predictive of astrocytosis, dendritic pathology, alterations in the regulation systems of neuronal excitation and inhibition, and premature maturation, conditions previously described in other models of ZIKV infection and microcephaly.


Asunto(s)
Infección por el Virus Zika , Virus Zika , Animales , Ratones , Cerebelo , Gliosis , Ratones Endogámicos BALB C
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Arch Virol ; 168(8): 204, 2023 Jul 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37428234

RESUMEN

The spread of Zika virus (ZIKV) from the African continent to the Americas promoted its molecular evolution, as reflected by mutations in its RNA genome. Most of the ZIKV genome sequences in the GenBank database have incomplete 5' and 3' UTR sequences, reflecting the deficiency of whole-genome sequencing technologies to resolve the sequences of the genome ends. We modified a protocol for rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) to determine the complete sequences of the 5' and 3' UTRs of a previously reported ZIKV isolate (GenBank no. MH544701.1). This strategy is useful for determining 5' and 3' UTR sequences of ZIKV isolates and will be useful for comparative genomics applications.


Asunto(s)
Infección por el Virus Zika , Virus Zika , Humanos , Virus Zika/genética , Regiones no Traducidas 3'/genética , ARN Viral/genética , Evolución Molecular , Regiones no Traducidas 5'/genética , Genoma Viral/genética
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Infect Genet Evol ; 95: 105038, 2021 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34403832

RESUMEN

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic diversity has the potential to impact the virus transmissibility and the escape from natural infection- or vaccine-elicited neutralizing antibodies. Here, representative samples from circulating SARS-CoV-2 in Colombia between January and April 2021, were processed for genome sequencing and lineage determination following the nanopore amplicon ARTIC network protocol and PANGOLIN pipeline. This strategy allowed us to identify the emergence of the B.1.621 lineage, considered a variant of interest (VOI) with the accumulation of several substitutions affecting the Spike protein, including the amino acid changes I95I, Y144T, Y145S and the insertion 146 N in the N-terminal domain, R346K, E484K and N501Y in the Receptor binding Domain (RBD) and P681H in the S1/S2 cleavage site of the Spike protein. The rapid increase in frequency and fixation in a relatively short time in Magdalena, Atlantico, Bolivar, Bogotá D.C, and Santander that were near the theoretical herd immunity suggests an epidemiologic impact. Further studies will be required to assess the biological and epidemiologic roles of the substitution pattern found in the B.1.621 lineage.


Asunto(s)
Sustitución de Aminoácidos , COVID-19/epidemiología , Genoma Viral , Mutación , SARS-CoV-2/genética , Glicoproteína de la Espiga del Coronavirus/genética , COVID-19/transmisión , COVID-19/virología , Colombia/epidemiología , Monitoreo Epidemiológico , Evolución Molecular , Secuenciación de Nucleótidos de Alto Rendimiento , Humanos , Filogenia , Filogeografía , Dominios Proteicos , SARS-CoV-2/clasificación , SARS-CoV-2/patogenicidad , Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad
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Front Med (Lausanne) ; 8: 697605, 2021.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34262921

RESUMEN

COVID-19 pandemics has led to genetic diversification of SARS-CoV-2 and the appearance of variants with potential impact in transmissibility and viral escape from acquired immunity. We report a new and highly divergent lineage containing 21 distinctive mutations (10 non-synonymous, eight synonymous, and three substitutions in non-coding regions). The amino acid changes L249S and E484K located at the CTD and RBD of the Spike protein could be of special interest due to their potential biological role in the virus-host relationship. Further studies are required for monitoring the epidemiologic impact of this new lineage.

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Microbiol Resour Announc ; 8(46)2019 Nov 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31727724

RESUMEN

A Zika virus (ZIKV) strain was isolated from an acute febrile patient during the Zika epidemics in Colombia. The strain was intraperitoneally inoculated into BALB/c mice, and 7 days postinoculation, neurological manifestations and ZIKV infection in the brain were demonstrated. The reported genome sequence is highly related to strains circulating in the Americas.

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