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Keratinocytes derived from chicken embryonic stem cells support Marek’s disease virus infection: a highly differentiated cell model to study viral replication and morphogenesis

Overview of attention for article published in Virology Journal, January 2016
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Title
Keratinocytes derived from chicken embryonic stem cells support Marek’s disease virus infection: a highly differentiated cell model to study viral replication and morphogenesis
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Virology Journal, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12985-015-0458-2
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Authors

Mathilde Couteaudier, Katia Courvoisier, Laetitia Trapp-Fragnet, Caroline Denesvre, Jean-François Vautherot

Abstract

Marek's disease is a virus disease with worldwide distribution that causes major losses to poultry production. Vaccines against Marek's disease virus, an oncogenic alphaherpesvirus, reduce tumour formation but have no effect on virus shedding. Successful horizontal virus transmission is linked to the active viral replication in feather follicle epithelial cells of infected chickens, from which infectious viral particles are shed into the environment. The feather follicle epithelium is the sole tissue in which those infectious particles are produced and no in vitro cell-systems can support this highly efficient morphogenesis. We previously characterized embryonic stem-cell-derived keratinocytes, showing they display a marker-gene profile similar to skin keratinocytes, and therefore we tested their susceptibility to Marek's disease virus infection. We show herein that keratinocytes derived from chicken embryonic stem-cells are fully permissive to the replication of either non-pathogenic or pathogenic Marek's disease viruses. All viruses replicated on all three keratinocyte lines and kinetics of viral production as well as viral loads were similar to those obtained on primary cells. Morphogenesis studies were conducted on infected keratinocytes and on corneocytes, showing that all types of capsids/virions were present inside the cells, but extracellular viruses were absent. The keratinocyte lines are the first epithelial cell-line showing ectodermal specific markers supporting Marek's disease virus replication. In this in vitro model the replication lead to the production of cell-associated viral progeny. Further work will be devoted to the study of relationship between 3D differentiation of keratinocytes and Marek's disease virus replication.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 8%
Unknown 12 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 31%
Researcher 2 15%
Student > Postgraduate 2 15%
Student > Master 1 8%
Unknown 4 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 23%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 8%
Computer Science 1 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 8%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 5 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 January 2017.
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#13,173,409
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from Virology Journal
#1,190
of 3,119 outputs
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#179,589
of 397,031 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Virology Journal
#17
of 49 outputs
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