Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T1 |
993-1201 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
However, the dynamic interplay between hosts and viruses in nature ( Figure 1 ) is difficult to recapitulate in laboratory-based studies that employ a single viral clone infecting an isogenic host population. |
T2 |
1334-1488 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
In this process, genetic differences between these species, not genetic similarities, are what dictate the evolutionary adaptations required by the virus. |
T3 |
1615-1808 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Therefore, the results of experiments using clonal hosts and clonal viruses in the laboratory may not always reveal the spectrum of possible host-virus interactions that truly exists in nature. |
T4 |
1809-2018 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Third, in studies of viruses infecting their natural host species, including cell lines derived from those species, host defense mechanisms can be masked because the viruses have already evolved to evade them. |
T5 |
2019-2157 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
In all of these instances, experiments conducted in non-host species (referred to here as heterologous species) can be highly informative. |
T6 |
2158-2390 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Here we consider both the strengths and limitations of approaches involving infections of heterologous animals, heterologous cell lines, and even cell lines differing only by the expression of single genes from heterologous species. |
T7 |
3367-3539 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Notably, the identification of the TRIM5α restriction factor instead resulted from comparing cell lines derived from susceptible and resistant primate species (Figure 2A ). |
T8 |
4586-4771 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
It is important to recognize that this potent anti-retroviral gene is constitutively expressed in many human cell types, yet lies silent because HIV has evolved to escape its detection. |
T9 |
4772-4937 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
The powerful antiviral activity of TRIM5α was only revealed when HIV was paired with cells of a heterologous host species to which the virus is not yet well adapted. |
T10 |
4938-5152 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Removing HIV from the context of the human genetic landscape uncovered how exquisitely vulnerable HIV is to naturally existing host factors that may ultimately prove vital to eradicating this deadly human pathogen. |
T11 |
5535-5657 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
This potentially contributes to the narrow host range of influenza B viruses, which have only been found to infect humans. |
T12 |
6749-6922 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
These cell lines may be derived from species other than the one from which the virus was isolated or from tissues other than the ones in which the virus normally replicates. |
T13 |
7125-7352 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
It is important to consider that, by ignoring other less permissive cell lines, we may be casting aside opportunities to discover new restriction factors and other cellular factors of importance to particular viral life cycles. |
T14 |
8469-8614 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
The acquired point mutations may also reflect adaptations specific to the innate immune defenses of chickens, but this has not been demonstrated. |
T15 |
8615-8778 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
The growing field of experimental evolution has the potential to help us understand the adaptive processes that viruses undergo when they acclimate to novel hosts. |
T16 |
9726-9903 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
The authors of these studies proposed that constant evolutionary struggle between viral antagonists and host defenses uniquely shaped these interactions in each primate species. |
T17 |
10125-10250 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Therefore, a cross-species viewpoint can help reveal key functional differences in how viruses adapt to defeat host immunity. |
T18 |
10479-10604 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Cross-species infections of live animals in laboratory settings can be useful for understanding virus evolution in new hosts. |
T19 |
11031-11258 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
H5N1 does not yet transmit efficiently from human to human via aerosolization and respiratory inhalation, which is taken to mean that the virus requires additional mutational changes before epidemic spread in humans can result. |
T20 |
11259-11464 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
In line with this hypothesis, three recent studies identified small combinations of viral mutations that result in respiratory transmission of this virus between ferrets in neighboring cages [40, 44, 45] . |
T21 |
11654-11792 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
However, this work illustrates how crossspecies infections of animals may reveal exactly how viruses adapt to new hosts, including humans. |
T22 |
11793-11894 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
The implications of intra-species genetic diversity can also be studied with experimental approaches. |
T23 |
12432-12595 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
This experiment nicely illustrates a central tenet of the Red Queen hypothesis [49] , namely that unique host genotypes exert unique selective pressure on viruses. |
T24 |
12596-12827 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
The same concept has also been demonstrated in primates, where retroviruses have been shown to take specific and reproducible evolutionary trajectories depending on the particular restriction factor alleles of their host [23, 26] . |
T25 |
13107-13309 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Further studies exploiting genetic differences between closely related strains and species holds great promise for revealing the fundamental rules that govern co-evolution in host and virus populations. |
T26 |
13310-13382 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Virus evolution during host switching can also be monitored in the wild. |
T27 |
13383-13576 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
An interesting and often-cited case involves the repeated release of the myxoma poxvirus in Europe and Australia as a form of biological control over invasive European rabbit populations [50] . |
T28 |
13709-13826 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
However, after release into European rabbit populations, the emergence of less virulent viral forms quickly followed. |
T29 |
13827-13989 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Attenuation of viral pathogenicity resulted in increased rabbit survival times, which may have optimized viral transmission to new rabbits through insect vectors. |
T30 |
14130-14263 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
While this is as an illustrious example of host-virus co-evolution, the mutations underlying adaptation have not yet been identified. |
T31 |
14264-14531 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
It will be challenging to determine which specific mutational changes conveyed the observed fitness improvements, as a majority of the mutations that accumulated in host and virus genomes are predicted to have been evolutionarily neutral or even slightly deleterious. |
T32 |
14532-14754 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
This limitation pertains to most experiments that involve sampling from infection dynamics unfolding in nature, and can be especially vexing in highly heterogeneous virus populations and for protocols with sparse sampling. |
T33 |
15010-15209 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Future studies may reveal the molecular details of the cross-species transmission of myxoma virus and the host-virus genetic conflict that unfolded in the context of this ecologically complex system. |
T34 |
15459-15720 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
In turn, mechanistic studies of host-virus interactions benefit from this evolution-based perspective, as observations of positive selection and species-specific mutational patterns can be used to guide the functional dissection of host-virus interactions [9] . |
T35 |
15866-16112 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
In order to enhance the power of this approach, it will be important to curate panels of cell lines from species that constitute viral reservoirs in nature, as well as from species that may serve as new or intermediate hosts for emerging disease. |
T36 |
16113-16372 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
By extending the model organisms paradigm with a cross-species view of virology, which incorporates the vast genetic diversity driving the dynamics of host-virus interactions, we may be poised to gain the upper-hand in these continuing struggles for survival. |
T37 |
16373-16551 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
• Dynamic aspects of virology often aren't well suited to traditional model system approaches • Many viruses are well adapted to their natural hosts, masking pathways of immunity |
T38 |
16552-16620 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
• Cross-species infections yield unique insight into innate immunity |
T39 |
16621-16698 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
• Viral adaptation can be effectively studied in novel host cells and species |
T40 |
16699-16754 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Different types of virus-host dynamics are illustrated. |
T41 |
16908-16998 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Not shown are additional genetic differences that exist within host and viral populations. |
T42 |
16999-17225 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
All of these genetic differences have the potential to contribute to viral host range, which may be broad or narrow (colored triangles), and may make some viruses more likely to evolve to expand their host range (dotted line). |
T43 |
17226-17403 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
This dynamic interplay between hosts and viruses is difficult to recapitulate in laboratory-based studies that employ a single viral clone infecting an isogenic host population. |
T44 |
17404-17642 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
In cases where resistance is conveyed by a dominant genetic factor, as would be the case with a cellular restriction factor or other immunity protein, the genetic basis for resistance can be uncovered by performing the illustrated screen. |
T45 |
17891-18051 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
B) Once cellular immunity proteins have been identified, heterologous gene studies can also be used to finely map the genetic determinants of viral recognition. |
T46 |
18529-18707 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
By comparing unique mutations in the resistant (red) versus susceptible (blue and green) orthologs, the genetic determinants of viral detection can be identified (orange arrows). |
T47 |
18708-18950 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Of these, the best candidate protein regions or residues (dark orange arrows) will be those with signatures of positive selection over the evolution of these species (bottom right, positions under positive selection indicated with asterisks). |
T48 |
19463-19687 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
In cases where incompatibility is observed between a virus and a cell line of a heterologous species, this presents an opportunity to identify cellular barriers to infection in a genetically tractable system (see Figure 2 ). |
T49 |
19926-20034 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Also, in such systems viral evolution experiments elucidate how a virus can escape specific cellular blocks. |
T50 |
20097-20209 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
This diagram illustrates the steps by which a virus is transmitted from its original host to a new host species. |
T51 |
20210-20403 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
While all organisms are continuously exposed to the viruses of other species, infection resulting in virus replication and potentially illness (step 1) is thought to be a relatively rare event. |
T52 |
20528-20644 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Of these, only some will progress to the point of epidemic or pandemic spread through the new host species (step 3). |
T53 |
20645-20917 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
In theory, each of these steps may or may not require the acquisition of novel mutations in the viral genome, although existing evidence suggests that additional mutations usually do accumulate in viral genomes as viruses become more and more adapted to a particular host. |
T54 |
20918-21026 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Virus mutations can be acquired through point mutation, insertion, deletion, recombination, or reassortment. |
T55 |
21027-21132 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
The acquisition of combinations of mutations may be required for viruses to advance through this process. |