Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Pages: 647-661

Journal: iScience

Volume number: 19

eISSN: 2589-0042

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.08.016

Publisher: Cell Press

Abstract: 

Antiviral interferons (IFN-alpha/beta) are possibly responsible for the high tolerance of bats to zoonotic viruses. Previous studies focused on the IFN system of megabats (suborder Yinpterochiroptera). We present statistically robust RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data on transcriptomes of cells from the "microbat" Myotis daubentonii (suborder Yangochiroptera) responding at 6 and 24 h to either an IFN-inducing virus or treatment with IFN. Our data reveal genes triggered only by virus, either in both humans and Myotis (CCL4, IFNL3, CH25H), or exclusively in Myotis (STEAP4). Myotis cells also express a series of conserved IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) and an unusually high paralog number of the antiviral ISG BST2 (tetherin) but lack several ISGs that were described for megabats (EMC2, FILIP1, IL17RC, OTOGL, SLC24A1). Also, in contrast to megabats, we detected neither different IFN-alpha subtypes nor an unusually high baseline expression of IFNs. Thus, Yangochiroptera microbats, represented by Myotis, may possess an IFN system with distinctive features.

Harvard Citation style: Hölzer, M., Schoen, A., Wulle, J., Müller, M., Drosten, C., Marz, M., et al. (2019) Virus- and Interferon Alpha-Induced Transcriptomes of Cells from the Microbat Myotis daubentonii, iScience, 19, pp. 647-661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.08.016

APA Citation style: Hölzer, M., Schoen, A., Wulle, J., Müller, M., Drosten, C., Marz, M., & Weber, F. (2019). Virus- and Interferon Alpha-Induced Transcriptomes of Cells from the Microbat Myotis daubentonii. iScience. 19, 647-661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.08.016