Generation of a family-specific virus through repeated human passage
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 11:31AM Generation of a family-specific virus through repeated human passage
Hayden A M Liston1, Lydia E Makaroff1 and Adrian Liston 1,2*
1 Sleepytown University, Brussels 1060, Belgium
2 VIB, Leuven 3000, Belgium
*send correspondance to adrian.liston@gmail.com
Nature Junior 8(2) 103-7
Background. Effective control over viral infection relies on the host carrying appropriate HLA alleles for viral antigen presentation. The explosive expansion of viruses like small-pox into previously isolated human populations demonstrates the potential for certain viral strains to have a disproportionate effect on particular racial groups. As yet, however, a virus with pathogenic potential restricted to the family level has not been identified. Objective. To generate a family-specific virus in an experimental setting, in order to test the feasibility of this occurrence in nature. Methods. A common cold virus was repeatedly passaged between two related individuals for six months. Mechanisms of transmission included frequent kisses, the placement of hands and feet into the mouth and in one instance direct vomiting into the mouth. Results. A single viral strain was propagated with the capacity to chronically infect both members of this family, while having seemingly non-pathological consequences upon exposure to unrelated individuals. The pathogenic loci are predicted to be a dominant HLA carried by both family members, as the experimental inoculation of a third individual, related to one family member but not the other, did not result in pathology. Conclusions. Generation of a family-specific virus is feasible through repeated experimental transfer between family members. A natural situation analogous to the experimental set-up used here would be the transmission that can occur between parents and young children with low levels of personal hygiene. The dominant activity of the HLA cluster in this infection suggests the generation of a regulatory T cell population which inhibits effective immunity against the family-specific virus.
Key Words: virus, horizontal transfer, HLA, human genetics, regulatory T cell.
evolution, genetics, immunology
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