A Sequence Listing accompanies this application and is submitted as a ASCII text file of the sequence listing named “169852_00056_ST25.txt” which is 25688 kb in size and was created on Nov. 18, 2019. The sequence listing is electronically submitted via EFS-Web with the application and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Viruses are used in biotechnology applications as research tools, diagnostic agents, and therapeutic agents. As therapeutic agents, viruses may be used as vaccines, vectors for gene therapy, anti-cancer oncolytic agents, or immunotherapeutics. A viruses' usefulness in these applications, however, is partly dependent on having efficient means of producing the virus at titers that are sufficient for a particular application. There thus remains a need in the art for new viral production methods that improve viral titer.
As an exemplary virus with therapeutic potential, myxoma virus (MYXV) is a poxvirus with a narrow host range in nature, infecting only rabbits. However, wild-type MYXV and many mutant MYXVs possess oncolytic potential and have recently been shown to be an excellent immunotherapeutic agent. Their safety feature, outstanding therapeutic potential shown in many cancer types, and versatility of application approaches make them attractive for human disease therapy. To generate large quantities of MYXV has been challenging. It is largely because MYXV relies on cell-to-cell contact for the transmission of the progeny viruses. Thus conventional suspension culture cannot not provide optimal yield for MYXV production. For the same reason, monolayer cell lines that can support optimal production of other viruses supply limited viral production. Thus improving MYXV yield is a critical task for future therapeutic applications using MYXV. The present invention, for example, defines a way to significantly improve the yield of replicating MYXV in an FDA approved human cell line, A549, permitting a significantly improved viral production.
In addition to replicating MYXV, the engineered cell line permits production of a non-replicating MYXV that has a promising therapeutic potential as well. We previously found that a mutant MYXV deleted for the viral immunoregulatory gene, M062R (M062R-null MYXV) had a beneficial therapeutic effect despite an abortive infection. In human primary ovarian cancer cells M062R-null MYXV induces a potent inflammatory response that includes type I interferon (IFN-I) responses. Moreover, it effectively improved survival when it is administrated after cisplatin, the first line chemotherapy for ovarian cancer.
Although M062R-null MYXV shows therapeutic promise, it is difficult to produce in high titers that will be sufficient to conduct, for example, clinical trials because the virus produces an abortive infection. We sought to develop new compositions and methods that could be used to improve the titer of both replicating and non-replicating MYXV (e.g., M062R-null MYXV) as well as other viruses. Such compositions and methods should help realize the potential of viruses as important research tools, diagnostic agents, and therapeutic agents.
In one aspect of the present invention, cells are provided. The cells may be modified to eliminate or reduce as compared to a control cell the activity or expression of a Sterile a motif-domain containing protein 9 (SAMD9) polypeptide.
In another aspect, the present invention relates to methods of producing a virus. The methods may include introducing the virus into any one of the cells described herein. Optionally, the methods may also further include purifying the virus from the cell.
Here, in the non-limiting Examples, the present inventors have created cells and methods that improve the production of myxoma viruses, including wild-type replication-competent myxoma viruses and replication-defective mutant myxoma viruses. In addition to myxoma viruses, the present inventors show that the disclosed cells and methods also improve the production of other viruses such as, without limitation, herpes simplex viruses, poxviruses, reoviruses and rota viruses.
In one aspect of the present invention, cells are provided. The cells may be modified to eliminate or reduce as compared to a control cell the activity or expression of a Sterile a motif-domain containing protein 9 (SAMD9) polypeptide.
As used herein, the terms “polypeptide” or “protein” or “peptide” may be used interchangeably to refer to a polymer of amino acids. A “polypeptide” as contemplated herein typically comprises a polymer of naturally occurring amino acids (e.g., alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, serine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, and valine).
Sterile a motif-domain containing protein 9 (SAMD9) polypeptides play critical roles in human health and may play a role in the inflammatory response to tissue injury and the control of extra-osseous calcification. The present inventors previously found that SAMD9 has antiviral function against poxviruses and poxviruses have evolved many viral proteins to inhibit SAMD9 function.1, 2
SEQ ID NO: 1 is an exemplary SAMD9 polypeptide from humans that may be used as a reference sequence. SAMD9 polypeptides from other species may also be used as reference sequences and can be found by a person of ordinary skill in the art by using SEQ ID NO: 1 to identify similar sequences from other species in databases such as at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The polypeptides disclosed herein (i.e., SAMD9 polypeptides and M062R polypeptides) may include “homologs” of the polypeptides disclosed herein. A “homolog” may be a protein related to a second protein by descent from a common ancestral protein.
The polypeptides disclosed herein (i.e., SAMD9 polypeptides and M062R polypeptides) may include “variants” of the polypeptides described herein. As used herein, a “variant” refers to a protein having an amino acid sequence that differs from a reference sequence. A variant may have one or more insertions, deletions, or substitutions of an amino acid residue relative to a reference sequence. For example, an SAMD9 polypeptide variant may have one or more insertion(s), deletion(s), or substitution(s) of at least one amino acid residue relative to the reference SAMD9 polypeptide (SEQ ID NO: 1) disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the SAMD9 polypeptide may include a polypeptide having at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or 100% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 1 (human SAMD9 polypeptide sequence).
Regarding the polypeptides disclosed herein, the phrases “% sequence identity,” “percent identity,” or “% identity” refer to the percentage of residue matches between at least two amino acid sequences aligned using a standardized algorithm. Methods of amino acid sequence alignment are well-known in the art. A suite of commonly used and freely available sequence comparison algorithms is provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST), which is available from several sources, including the NCBI, Bethesda, Md., at its website. The BLAST software suite includes various sequence analysis programs including “blastp,” that may be used to align a known amino acid sequence with other amino acids sequences from a variety of databases.
Polypeptide sequence identity may be measured over the length of an entire defined polypeptide sequence, for example, as defined by a particular SEQ ID number, or may be measured over a shorter length, for example, over the length of a fragment taken from a larger, defined polypeptide sequence, for instance, a fragment of at least 15, at least 20, at least 30, at least 40, at least 50, at least 70 or at least 150 contiguous residues. Such lengths are exemplary only, and it is understood that any fragment length supported by the sequences shown herein, in the tables, figures or Sequence Listing, may be used to describe a length over which percentage identity may be measured.
A “deletion” in a polypeptide described herein refers to a change in the amino acid sequence resulting in the absence of one or more amino acid residues. A deletion may remove at least 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, or more amino acids residues. A deletion may include an internal deletion and/or a terminal deletion (e.g., an N-terminal truncation, a C-terminal truncation or both of a reference polypeptide).
“Insertions” and “additions” in a polypeptide described herein refers to changes in an amino acid sequence resulting in the addition of one or more amino acid residues. An insertion or addition may refer to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 150, 200, or more amino acid residues. A variant or homolog of a polypeptide described herein may have N-terminal insertions, C-terminal insertions, internal insertions, or any combination of N-terminal insertions, C-terminal insertions, and internal insertions.
Suitable “cells” in accordance with the present invention may include eukaryotic cells. Suitable eukaryotic cells include, without limitation, animal cells. In some embodiments, the cell is a mammalian cell such as, without limitation, a mouse cell, a rat cell, a hamster cell, or a human cell. The cell may be a cell line used to produce viral particles or viruses including, without limitation, mammalian cell lines such as A549 cells, THP1 cells, HeLa cells, CHO cells, HEK293 cells, HEK293T cells, COS cells, BK cells, MDCK cells, PER C6 cells, HKB-11 cells, CAP (CEVEC's Amniocyte Production) cells, Huh 7 cells, human diploid cells, HT-1080 cells, and Vero cells.
The eliminated or reduced activity or expression of the SAMD9 polypeptide is relative to a control cell. A “control cell” is a wild-type cell that has not been modified as described herein and may include a wild-type SAMD9 gene encoding a wild-type SAMD9 polypeptide. Exemplary control cells may include wild-type A549 cells, THP1 cells, or HeLa cells. The control cell may be the same type of cell as the cell modified to eliminate or reduce the activity or expression of a SAMD9 polypeptide.
As used herein, the “activity” of a SAMD9 polypeptide refers to any of the biological functions of a SAMD9 polypeptide including, without limitation, inflammatory or anti-viral functions. In some embodiments, the activity of the SAMD9 polypeptide is reduced by at least 30%, 40%, 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, or 99%, or more as compared to a control cell.
As used herein, the term “expression” may refer either to the levels of an RNA encoding a protein in a cell or the levels of the protein in a cell.
In some embodiments, the expression of the SAMD9 polypeptide is reduced by at least 30%, 40%, 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, or 99%, or more as compared to a control cell. In a preferred example, the SAMD9 is reduced at least 60% or more, preferably 80% or more.
The cells may be modified to eliminate or reduce as compared to a control cell the activity or expression of a SAMD9 polypeptide described herein. As used herein, the terms “modified” or “modifying” refer to using any laboratory methods available to those of skill in the art including, without limitation, genetic engineering techniques (i.e. CRISPR/Cas techniques or gene silencing technologies) or forward genetic techniques to affect the activity or expression of a SAMD9 polypeptide. It will be readily apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that there are multiple potential ways to eliminate or reduce the activity or expression of a SAMD9 polypeptide in a cell by modifying the gene encoding the SAMD9 polypeptide by, for example, introducing targeted mutations, by modifying a mRNA (or levels thereof) encoding the SAMD9 polypeptide, for example, by using gene silencing techniques, or by inhibiting the SAMD9 polypeptide at the protein level.
In some embodiments, the cell may include a nucleic acid agent capable of downregulating an RNA transcript encoding the SAMD9 polypeptide. Suitable nucleic acid agents may include, without limitation, a short hairpin RNA (shRNA), microRNA, siRNA, or anti sense RNA.
As exemplarily, nucleic acid agents capable of downregulating an RNA transcript encoding the SAMD9 polypeptide, in the Examples, the inventors use a short hairpin RNA (shRNA) targeting SAMD9 mRNAs in THP1 cells.
The cell may also be modified to introduce a hypomorphic mutation or a null mutation in a polynucleotide (i.e., gene) encoding the SAMD9 polypeptide. A “null mutation” is an alteration in a gene that results in a gene that completely lacks its normal function. The complete lack of function may be the result of the complete absence of a gene product (i.e., protein or RNA) being produced in a cell or may result from the expression of a non-functional polypeptide. Similarly, a “hypomorphic mutation” is an alteration in a gene that results in a gene that has reduced activity. The reduced activity may be from a reduced level of expression of gene products (i.e., protein or RNA) from the gene or may result from the expression of a gene product (i.e. protein or RNA) that has reduced functional activity. For example, the gene product (i.e., protein or RNA) may result in a truncated form of the SAMD9 protein that has reduced or eliminated all functionality within a cell, as demonstrated in the examples.
It will be readily apparent to those of skill in the art that a variety of null or hypomorphic mutations may be introduced (using, for example, CRISPR/Cas or other genetic engineering techniques) into a polynucleotide encoding the SAMD9 polypeptides described herein to arrive at embodiments of the present invention. For example, early stop codons may be introduced into the open reading frame of the gene encoding the SAMD9 polypeptide, which would result in the expression of a shorter protein sequence completely lacking or having reduced activity. Alternatively or additionally, a person of ordinary skill may introduce alterations (i.e., substitutions or deletions) into the promoter of a gene encoding the SAMD9 polypeptide described herein that result in little or no expression of the SAMD9 polypeptide.
As exemplarily null or hypomorphic mutations that may be introduced into a gene encoding a SAMD9 polypeptide described herein, in the Examples, the inventors use CRISPR/Cas9 molecular tools to introduce a premature stop codon into the SAMD9 gene, which led to the production of a truncated protein (see, e.g.,
Still further modifications contemplated herein include mutations that impact one or more of the activities of the SAMD9 polypeptide. The SAMD9 polypeptide has inflammatory and anti-viral functional activities. It will be understood by those of skill in the art that alterations (i.e., mutations and/or deletions) could be made to the SAMD9 polypeptide that would be expected to eliminate or reduce an activity of the SAMD9 polypeptide.
In another aspect, the present invention relates to methods of producing a virus. The methods may include introducing the virus into any of the cells described herein.
The virus may be “introduced” into the cell by, for example, contacting the cell with viral particles or introducing a polynucleotide including a viral polynucleotide into the cell (i.e., DNA plasmid). Methods of introducing polynucleotides into a cell are known in the art and may include, without limitation, microinjection, transformation, and transfection methods. Transformation or transfection may occur under natural or artificial conditions according to various methods well known in the art, and may rely on any known method for the insertion of foreign nucleic acid sequences into a host cell. The method for transformation or transfection is selected based on the type of host cell being transformed and may include, but is not limited to, bacteriophage or viral infection, electroporation, heat shock, lipofection, and particle bombardment. Microinjection of polynucleotides may also be used to introduce polynucleotides into cells.
In the nonlimiting Examples, the present inventors introduce viruses (i.e., myxoma and herpes simplex viruses) into the cells described herein by incubating cells with viruses on ice, at room temperature, or at 37° C. in regular medium for an hour followed by removing inoculum and replishing with standard growth medium for infection development. For myxoma and herpes simplex viruses, the present inventors used natural infections in conventional cell culture.
The cells described herein, e.g., cells with a modified SAMD9 (e.g., SAM9D null cells or truncated non-active or reduced SAMD9 activity), are shown to produce an increase in virus infectivity and thus the ability to increase the production of the amount of virus made in vitro for laboratory and clinical purposes.
Optionally, the methods may also further include purifying the virus from the cell. The term “purifying” is used to refer to the process of ensuring that the virus or viral particles are substantially or essentially free from cellular components and/or other impurities. Purification of viruses or viral particles is typically performed using molecular biology and analytical chemistry techniques such as, without limitation, ultracentrifugation, density gradient (i.e., sucrose gradient), chromatography, precipitation and/or filtration. Methods of purifying viruses or viral particles are well known to those skilled in the art. A “purified” virus or viral particles means that the virus or viral particles is at least 85% pure, more preferably at least 95% pure, and most preferably at least 99% pure.
As used herein, a “virus” may be any virus having DNA or RNA genomes. Suitable viruses may include, without limitation, myxoma viruses, herpes simplex viruses, rotaviruses, reoviruses, influenza viruses or adenoviruses.
As shown in the examples, the altered SAMD9 cells are able to substantially increase the viral titer production for a number of viruses within the in vitro cultures. The present cells are able to increase the virus titer production by at least 1 log (10 fold), in some examples, at least 2 log (100 fold) as compared to the wildtype cells. For example, for rotaviruses, a greater than a log increase in virus titers (e.g., number of viral genomes produced by the cells) was seen. In some examples, the altered SAMD9 cells were able to produce a greater than 2 log increase in virus production with the altered SAMD9 cells (ΔSAMD9 HeLa cells) (about 100 fold increase) as compare to wildtype cells. In some examples, the virus titer was able to go from an undetectable level within wildtype cells to a detectable level (e.g. 103 genomes) when using the altered SAMD9 cells.
Altering the SAMD9 production in any cell was able to increase the ability of that altered cell to produce viruses. The inventors discovered that the greater the reduction of SAMD9 activity within the cells, the greater an increase in the ability to produce virus (i.e. increase virus production and titer). For example, in one exemplary cell type, a 60% reduction of SAM9 activity within a cell resulted, in some examples, in a log (10 fold) increase in virus titer.
Viral titer, viral particles, or infectious particles in a given volume (e.g., per mL) can be measured by any method known in the art. For example, the number of genomes can be quantitated within the supernatant from the altered cells using methods known in the art. For example, nucleic acid based tests can be used (i.e. RNA copies per mL), which include, but are not limited to, for example, PCR, RT-PCR, viral plaque assay, etc., tittering assay (e.g., serial dilution, etc.), and are well within one skilled in the art to determine.
In some embodiments, the virus may include a mutation affecting the growth of the virus (i.e., replication-incompetent). Exemplary viruses including a mutation affecting the growth of the viruses may include, without limitation, myxoma viruses including a hypomorphic or a null mutation in a M062R polynucleotide encoding a M062R polypeptide. See Liu et al., I Virol. 85(7):3270-3282 (2011) and International Application No. PCT/US19/33973 all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. Myxoma virus protein M062R is an immunoregulatory protein in myxoma viruses. M062R is a functional homolog of the C7L family of host range genes from orthpoxviruses and is required for MYVX replication in most human cancer cells.
Exemplary viruses including a mutation affecting the growth of the viruses may include, without limitation, mutant viruses that lose an inhibitor of SAMD9 activity.
The present disclosure is not limited to the specific details of construction, arrangement of components, or method steps set forth herein. The compositions and methods disclosed herein are capable of being made, practiced, used, carried out and/or formed in various ways that will be apparent to one of skill in the art in light of the disclosure that follows. The phraseology and terminology used herein is for the purpose of description only and should not be regarded as limiting to the scope of the claims. Ordinal indicators, such as first, second, and third, as used in the description and the claims to refer to various structures or method steps, are not meant to be construed to indicate any specific structures or steps, or any particular order or configuration to such structures or steps. All methods described herein can be performed in any suitable order unless otherwise indicated herein or otherwise clearly contradicted by context. The use of any and all examples, or exemplary language (e.g., “such as”) provided herein, is intended merely to facilitate the disclosure and does not imply any limitation on the scope of the disclosure unless otherwise claimed. No language in the specification, and no structures shown in the drawings, should be construed as indicating that any non-claimed element is essential to the practice of the disclosed subject matter. The use herein of the terms “including,” “comprising,” or “having,” and variations thereof, is meant to encompass the elements listed thereafter and equivalents thereof, as well as additional elements. Embodiments recited as “including,” “comprising,” or “having” certain elements are also contemplated as “consisting essentially of” and “consisting of” those certain elements.
Recitation of ranges of values herein are merely intended to serve as a shorthand method of referring individually to each separate value falling within the range, unless otherwise indicated herein, and each separate value is incorporated into the specification as if it were individually recited herein. For example, if a concentration range is stated as 1% to 50%, it is intended that values such as 2% to 40%, 10% to 30%, or 1% to 3%, etc., are expressly enumerated in this specification. These are only examples of what is specifically intended, and all possible combinations of numerical values between and including the lowest value and the highest value enumerated are to be considered to be expressly stated in this disclosure. Use of the word “about” to describe a particular recited amount or range of amounts is meant to indicate that values very near to the recited amount are included in that amount, such as values that could or naturally would be accounted for due to manufacturing tolerances, instrument and human error in forming measurements, and the like. All percentages referring to amounts are by weight unless indicated otherwise.
No admission is made that any reference, including any non-patent or patent document cited in this specification, constitutes prior art. In particular, it will be understood that, unless otherwise stated, reference to any document herein does not constitute an admission that any of these documents forms part of the common general knowledge in the art in the United States or in any other country. Any discussion of the references states what their authors assert, and the applicant reserves the right to challenge the accuracy and pertinence of any of the documents cited herein. All references cited herein are fully incorporated by reference in their entirety, unless explicitly indicated otherwise. The present disclosure shall control in the event there are any disparities between any definitions and/or description found in the cited references.
Unless otherwise specified or indicated by context, the terms “a”, “an”, and “the” mean “one or more.” For example, “a protein” or “an RNA” should be interpreted to mean “one or more proteins” or “one or more RNAs,” respectively.
The following examples are meant only to be illustrative and are not meant as limitations on the scope of the invention or of the appended claims.
Sterile α motif-domain containing protein 9 (SAMD9) is an important protein that plays critical roles in human health. We previously found that SAMD9 has antiviral function against poxviruses and poxviruses have evolved many viral proteins to inhibit SAMD9 function.1, 2 During infection by myxoma virus (MYXV) one viral protein M062 takes the role to neutralize SAMD9. Without M062, MYXV infection cannot proceed resulting in an abortive infection. This is a form of infection in which viral genome replication is not complete and expression of many viral genes cannot be accomplished. However, by knocking down the mRNA level of SAMD9, we can restore partially the infection by a M062R-null MYXV.1 Interestingly, we found that in human A549 cells by deleting SAMD9 expression, we not only can restore M062R-null MYXV infection to the same levels as the replicating MYXV but also can drastically improve the viral yield of replicating MYXV (e.g., WT virus). We also found that knocking down SAMD9 mRNA level led to improved viral yield by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). Thus cells without SAMD9 expression can be very useful for the production of viruses (e.g., MYXV and HSV-1) for clinical applications.
We engineered SAMD9-null cells with CRISPR/CAS9 technology and one example on how to engineer the cell line is described below. We first designed the guide RNAs (gRNAs) and chose two options as following: gRNA1-Forward: 5′-CACCGtaatccatatcgttacaagt-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 2); gRNA1-Reverse: 5′-AAACacttgtaacgatatggattaC-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 3); gRNA2-Forward: 5′-CACCGtctcactatttgtgcgagat-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 4); gRNA2-Reverse: 5′-AAACatctcgcacaaatagtgagaC-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 5). We cloned gRNA1 and 2 into vector pX330-U6-Chimeric_BB-CBh-hSpCas9 (Addgene plasmid #42230)3 and pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458) (Addgene plasmid #48138)4, respectively. After cotransfection of both constructs, single cells that turned green were individually collected via cell sorting and cultured to expand. Western blot was conducted to confirm the absence of SAMD9 protein as previously described.5 Briefly, both plasmids expressing gRNA1 and 2 are transfected into cells and followed by cell sorting of GFP positive cells at 24 h post-transfection. GFP expression indicated that transfected cells expressed at least Cas9-GFP and gRNA 2. It is most likely that transfected cells received both sets of Cas9 and gRNA. Single clones are obtained in 96-well-plates for amplification and a pooled cell population was also obtained and frozen as previously described.6 The GFP expression was only transient and the plasmids expressing Cas9-gRNA were lost in the cells while cells continued to divide. Once the single cell clone is confirmed to no longer express SAMD9 protein, we sequenced the genomic DNA of SAMD9 to confirm the genetic manipulation was successful. We found that the most frequent cause of SAMD9 deletion was caused by cleavage guided by gRNA1 and the example is shown in
We next tested M062R-null cell infection in these cells and found that viral replication was completely restored to comparable levels of WT MYXV infection (
We also found that once SAMD9 is deleted from human cells, WT myxoma virus (MYXV) infection is also significantly improved. See, e.g.,
We also tested whether knocking-down SAMD9 expression in another human cell line, THP1, could increase HSV-1 infection. HSV-1 infection was conducted in PMA-differentiated THP1 cells (ATCC© TIB-202™) and at given time points cell lysates were collected for titration on RS cells as previously described.8 SAMD9 knockdown cells were engineered using lentivirus expressing shRNAs targeting SAMD9 mRNA and the control cells were engineered using lentivirus expressing control shRNAs; to engineer these cell lines we utilized a method similar to what has been reported.2 Reduced SAMD9 protein levels were observed in cells stably expressing SAMD9 targeting shRNAs, while introduction of non-targeting shRNAs (control) did not affect SAMD9 expression. See
A549 (ATCC® CCL-185™), THP1 (ATCC© TIB-202™), BSC40 (ATCC® CRL-2761) and HeLa (ATCC® 2™) were obtained from ATCC. While THP1 cells have been cultured in RMPI1640 (Lonza, BioWhittaker) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Atlantic Biological) and 100 μg of penicillin-streptomycin (pen/strep; Invitrogen)/ml, A549, BSC-40 and HeLa are cultured in Dulbecco minimum essential medium (DMEM; Invitrogen) supplemented with 10% FBS, 2 mM glutamine (Invitrogen) and 100 μg of pen/Sterp per ml. RS cells and HSV-1 (17syn+) were kindly provided by Dr. David Bloom (University of Florida). HSV-1 was amplified in RS cells and the titer is determined on RS cells using plaque assay as previously described (Liu et al., 2008). Wildtype MYXV and M062R-null MYXV have been reported previously (Liu et al., 2011). These MYXVs were amplified on BSC-40 and titers were determined on BSC-40 cells as previous described (Liu et al., 2011).
Antibodies for SAMD9 (SigmaAldrich), SAMD9L (SigmaAldrich), β-actin (SigmaAldrich), goat anti-rabbit IgG-HRP, and goat anti-mouse IgG-HRP were used for the Western Bloting. Actinomycin D, cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside, MG132 (Z-Leu-Leu-Leu-al) were purchased from SigmaAldrich and resuspended for storage according to Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Luciferase activity was detected using Luciferase Assay System (Promega).
Cell genomic DNA was extracted using PureLink Genomic DNA Mini Kit (Invitrogen). PCR amplification of SAMD9 intron free region using Phusion High-Fidelity DNA polymerase (New England Biolabs) and the primer set of SAMD9F78 (5′-AGTCggtaccGCCATTGAAGATTCGATT-3′) (SEQ ID NO: 10) and SAMD9R724 (5′-GACTctcgagttaAGAATCTGCACAGTTTTGAA-3′) (SEQ ID NO: 11) to generate a fragment of approximately 1938 nt. This DNA fragment was then cloned into a plasmid using Zero Blunt TOPO cloning kit (ThermoFisher Scientific). Sequencing was conducted using M13 forward and reverse primers.
This application claims benefit to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/769,834 filed on Nov. 20, 2018, the contents of which are incorporated by reference in its entirety.
This invention was made with government support under R01 AI139106 and K22-AI099184 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The government has certain rights in the invention.
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