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Investigation of the interaction between human respiratory syncytial virus and the host cell
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Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is a leading cause of virus-induced
paediatric respiratory disease. HRSV can cause severe lower respiratory tract
diseases in young children and upper respiratory tract diseases in all ages.
HRSV infection results in large economical and healthcare burdens every year,
however, there is no approved vaccine and the antiviral therapies are generally
costly and less effective due to the high mutant rate of this RNA virus and the
imbalanced host immune responses in response to HRSV infection. The
virus-host interactions of HRSV have not been well understood so far, which
therefore limited the knowledge of HRSV pathogenesis and the development of
vaccinations and antiviral drugs. This study focused on investigations of the
interactions between HRSV and host NF-KB activation and host cell cycle
manipulation, as well as the interactions between HRSV nonstructural proteins
and host cellular proteins. In conclusion, different NF-KB activation
characteristics have been found between HRSV subgroups A and B, suggesting
the implication with the different pathology of HRSV subgroup A and B. HRSV
infection resulted in cell cycle arrest at GO/G1 phase with different mechanism in
continuous and primary cell cultures, which benefited progeny virus production.
HRSV NS1 protein was found to act as a role in HRSV induced cell cycle arrest,
and a potential inhibitor of RNA polymerase". All of these findings provided a
better understanding of HRSV virus-host interactions and HRSV pathogenesis.
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