Pathogenesis of Hepatitis E Virus and Hepatitis C Virus in Chimpanzees: Similarities and Differences
- 1 November 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 84 (21), 11264-11278
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01205-10
Abstract
The chimpanzee is the only animal model for investigating the pathogenesis of viral hepatitis types A through E in humans. Studies of the host response, including microarray analyses, have relied on the close relationship between these two primate species: chimpanzee samples are commonly tested with human-based reagents. In this study, the host responses to two dissimilar viruses, hepatitis E virus (HEV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), were compared in multiple experimentally infected chimpanzees. Affymetrix U133+2.0 human microarray chips were used to assess the entire transcriptome in serial liver biopsies obtained over the course of the infections. Respecting the limitations of microarray probes designed for human target transcripts to effectively assay chimpanzee transcripts, we conducted probe-level analysis of the microarray data in conjunction with a custom mapping of the probe sequences to the most recent human and chimpanzee genome sequences. Time points for statistical comparison were chosen based on independently measured viremia levels. Regardless of the viral infection, the alignment of differentially expressed genes to the human genome sequence resulted in a larger number of genes being identified when compared with alignment to the chimpanzee genome sequence. This probably reflects the lesser refinement of gene annotation for chimpanzees. In general, the two viruses demonstrated very distinct temporal changes in host response genes, although both RNA viruses induced genes that were involved in many of the same biological systems, including interferon-induced genes. The host response to HCV infection was more robust in the magnitude and number of differentially expressed genes compared to HEV infection.Keywords
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