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cDNA‐AFLP analysis of differential gene expression in human hepatoma cells (HepG2) upon dengue virus infection
Author(s) -
Ekkapongpisit Maneerat,
Wannatung Tirawat,
Susantad Tharinee,
Triwitayakorn Kanokporn,
Smith Duncan R.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.20806
Subject(s) - biology , dengue virus , dengue fever , virology , complementary dna , gene , gene expression , virus , genome , gene expression profiling , genetics
In infectious diseases, the disease pathogenesis is the outcome of the interaction between the genome of the host and the genome of the pathogen. Despite the wide distribution of dengue infections in the world, and the large number of annual infections, few studies have investigated how the dengue genome alters the global transcriptional profile of the host cell. To investigate alterations in the liver cell transcriptome in response to dengue virus infection, liver cells (HepG2) were infected with dengue serotype 2 at MOI 5 and at 3 days post‐infection RNA extracted and analyzed by cDNA‐AFLP in parallel with mock‐infected cells. From 73 primer combinations over 5,000 transcription‐derived fragments (TDFs) were observed, of which approximately 10% were regulated differentially in response to infection. Sixty‐five TDFs were subsequently cloned and sequenced and 27 unique gene transcripts identified. Semi‐quantitative reverse transcription (RT)‐PCR was used to validate the expression of 12 of these genes and 10 transcripts (CK2, KIAA509, HSP70, AK3L, NIPA, PHIP, RiboS4, JEM‐1, MALT1, and HSI12044) were confirmed to be differentially regulated, with four transcripts (HSP70, NIPA, RiboS4, and JEM‐1) showing a greater than twofold regulation. These results suggest that the expression of a large number of genes is altered in response to dengue virus infection of liver cells, and that cDNA‐AFLP is a useful tool for obtaining information on both characterized and as yet uncharacterized transcripts whose expression is altered during the infection process. J. Med. Virol. 79:552–561, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.