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Title: | Stress-induced unfolded protein response contributes to Zika virus-associated microcephaly | Authors: | Gladwyn-Ng, Ivan Cordon-Barris, Lluis Alfano, Christian Creppe, Catherine Couderc, Therese MORELLI, Giovanni Thelen, Nicolas America, Michelle Bessieres, Bettina Encha-Razavi, Ferechte Bonniere, Maryse Suzuki, Ikuo K. Flamand, Marie Vanderhaeghen, Pierre Thiry, Marc Lecuit, Marc Nguyen, Laurent |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Source: | NATURE NEUROSCIENCE, 21(1), p. 63-73 | Abstract: | Accumulating evidence support a causal link between Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during gestation and congenital microcephaly. However, the mechanism of ZIKV-associated microcephaly remains unclear. We combined analyses of ZIKV-infected human fetuses, cultured human neural stem cells and mouse embryos to understand how ZIKV induces microcephaly. We show that ZIKV triggers endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein response in the cerebral cortex of infected postmortem human fetuses as well as in cultured human neural stem cells. After intracerebral and intraplacental inoculation of ZIKV in mouse embryos, we show that it triggers endoplasmic reticulum stress in embryonic brains in vivo. This perturbs a physiological unfolded protein response within cortical progenitors that controls neurogenesis. Thus, ZIKV-infected progenitors generate fewer projection neurons that eventually settle in the cerebral cortex, whereupon sustained endoplasmic reticulum stress leads to apoptosis. Furthermore, we demonstrate that administration of pharmacological inhibitors of unfolded protein response counteracts these pathophysiological mechanisms and prevents microcephaly in ZIKV-infected mouse embryos. Such defects are specific to ZIKV, as they are not observed upon intraplacental injection of other related flaviviruses in mice. | Notes: | Nguyen, L (reprint author), Univ Liege, GIGA Neurosci, Interdisciplinary Cluster Appl Genoprote GIGA R, CHU Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgium. marc.lecuit@pasteur.fr; lnguyen@ulg.ac.be | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/26578 | ISSN: | 1097-6256 | e-ISSN: | 1546-1726 | DOI: | 10.1038/s41593-017-0038-4 | ISI #: | 000423155800014 | Rights: | © 2017 Nature America Inc., part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2019 |
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