A Nucleic-Acid Hydrolyzing Single Chain Antibody Confers Resistance to DNA Virus Infection in HeLa Cells and C57BL/6 Mice

PLoS Pathogens

Dae Hyun Kim¹  Seungchan Cho²  Gunsup Lee²  Sung-June Byun²  Sukchan Lee³  Taek-Kyun Lee⁴  Jaelim Yu⁴  Myung-Hee Kwon⁵ 

[1] Animal Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Animal Science, Rural Development Administration, Suwon, Korea;Department of Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Korea;Department of Microbiology, Ajou University School of Medicine, San 5, Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Korea;Fruit Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Suwon, Korea;South Sea Environment Research Department, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Geoje, Korea

关键词: HeLa cells;    Deoxyribonucleases;    DNA methylation;    Ribonucleases;    Antibodies;    DNA replication;    Cytoplasm;    Polymerase chain reaction;   

DOI  :  10.1371/journal.ppat.1004208

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Public Library of Science

【 摘 要 】

Viral protein neutralizing antibodies have been developed but they are limited only to the targeted virus and are often susceptible to antigenic drift. Here, we present an alternative strategy for creating virus-resistant cells and animals by ectopic expression of a nucleic acid hydrolyzing catalytic 3D8 single chain variable fragment (scFv), which has both DNase and RNase activities. HeLa cells (SCH7072) expressing 3D8 scFv acquired significant resistance to DNA viruses. Virus challenging with Herpes simplex virus (HSV) in 3D8 scFv transgenic cells and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) assay based on direct DNA cleavage analysis revealed that the induced resistance in HeLa cells was acquired by the nucleic acid hydrolyzing catalytic activity of 3D8 scFv. In addition, pseudorabies virus (PRV) infection in WT C57BL/6 mice was lethal, whereas transgenic mice (STG90) that expressed high levels of 3D8 scFv mRNA in liver, muscle, and brain showed a 56% survival rate 5 days after PRV intramuscular infection. The antiviral effects against DNA viruses conferred by 3D8 scFv expression in HeLa cells as well as an in vivo mouse system can be attributed to the nuclease activity that inhibits viral genome DNA replication in the nucleus and/or viral mRNA translation in the cytoplasm. Our results demonstrate that the nucleic-acid hydrolyzing activity of 3D8 scFv confers viral resistance to DNA viruses in vitro in HeLa cells and in an in vivo mouse system.

【 授权许可】

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