Journal article
RNA-Seq analysis of chikungunya virus infection and identification of granzyme A as a major promoter of arthritic inflammation.
Jane AC Wilson, Natalie A Prow, Wayne A Schroder, Jonathan J Ellis, Helen E Cumming, Linden J Gearing, Yee Suan Poo, Adam Taylor, Paul J Hertzog, Francesca Di Giallonardo, Linda Hueston, Roger Le Grand, Bing Tang, Thuy T Le, Joy Gardner, Suresh Mahalingam, Pierre Roques, Phillip I Bird, Andreas Suhrbier
PLoS Pathogens | Published : 2017
Abstract
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthritogenic alphavirus causing epidemics of acute and chronic arthritic disease. Herein we describe a comprehensive RNA-Seq analysis of feet and lymph nodes at peak viraemia (day 2 post infection), acute arthritis (day 7) and chronic disease (day 30) in the CHIKV adult wild-type mouse model. Genes previously shown to be up-regulated in CHIKV patients were also up-regulated in the mouse model. CHIKV sequence information was also obtained with up to ≈8% of the reads mapping to the viral genome; however, no adaptive viral genome changes were apparent. Although day 2, 7 and 30 represent distinct stages of infection and disease, there was a pronounced overlap in ..
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