Borna Disease Virus Persistent Infection Activates Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase and Blocks Neuronal Differentiation of PC12 Cells

Aymeric Hans, Sylvie Syan, Claudia Crosio, Paolo Sassone‐Corsi, Michel Brahic, Daniel Gonzalez‐Dunia

Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2001 · 52 citations · 44 references

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Persistence of Borna disease virus (BDV) in the central nervous system causes damage to specific neuronal populations. BDV is noncytopathic, and the mechanisms underlying neuronal pathology are not well understood. One hypothesis is that infection affects the response of neurons to factors that are crucial for their proliferation, differentiation, or survival. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed the response of PC12 cells persistently infected with BDV to the neurotrophin nerve growth factor (NGF). PC12 is a neural crest-derived cell line that exhibits features of neuronal differentiation in response to NGF. We report that persistence of BDV led to a progressive change of phenotype of PC12 cells and blocked neurite outgrowth in response to NGF. Infection down-regulated the expression of synaptophysin and growth-associated protein-43, two molecules involved in neuronal plasticity, as well as the expression of the chromaffin-specific gene tyrosine hydroxylase. We showed that the block in response to NGF was due in part to the down-regulation of NGF receptors. Moreover, although BDV caused constitutive activation of the ERK1/2 pathway, activated ERKs were not translocated to the nucleus efficiently. These observations may account for the absence of neuronal differentiation of persistently infected PC12 cells treated with NGF. Persistence of Borna disease virus (BDV) in the central nervous system causes damage to specific neuronal populations. BDV is noncytopathic, and the mechanisms underlying neuronal pathology are not well understood. One hypothesis is that infection affects the response of neurons to factors that are crucial for their proliferation, differentiation, or survival. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed the response of PC12 cells persistently infected with BDV to the neurotrophin nerve growth factor (NGF). PC12 is a neural crest-derived cell line that exhibits features of neuronal differentiation in response to NGF. We report that persistence of BDV led to a progressive change of phenotype of PC12 cells and blocked neurite outgrowth in response to NGF. Infection down-regulated the expression of synaptophysin and growth-associated protein-43, two molecules involved in neuronal plasticity, as well as the expression of the chromaffin-specific gene tyrosine hydroxylase. We showed that the block in response to NGF was due in part to the down-regulation of NGF receptors. Moreover, although BDV caused constitutive activation of the ERK1/2 pathway, activated ERKs were not translocated to the nucleus efficiently. These observations may account for the absence of neuronal differentiation of persistently infected PC12 cells treated with NGF. Borna disease virus nerve growth factor nucleoprotein growth-associated protein-43 Tris-buffered saline glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase mitogen-activated protein kinase extracellular signal-regulated kinase MAPK kinase cAMP response element-binding protein microtubule-associated protein-2 tyrosine hydroxylase epidermal growth factor Borna disease virus(BDV)1 is a nonsegmented, negative stranded RNA virus (1de la Torre J.C. J. Virol. 1994; 68: 7669-7675Crossref PubMed Google Scholar, 2Schneemann A. Schneider P.A. Lamb R.A. Lipkin W.I. Virology. 1995; 210: 1-8Crossref PubMed Scopus (173) Google Scholar), belonging to theBornaviridae family in the Mononegavirales order. BDV causes central nervous system diseases characterized by behavioral abnormalities in a wide variety of animals (3Gosztonyi G. Ludwig H. Koprowski H. Lipkin I. Borna Disease. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany1995: 39-73Google Scholar). There is evidence that BDV infects humans, although its role in neuropsychiatric disorders remains a matter of debate (4Kishi M. Nakaya T. Nakamura Y. Zhong Q. Ikeda K. Senjo M. Kakinuma M. Kato S. Ikuta K. FEBS Lett. 1995; 364: 293-297Crossref PubMed Scopus (111) Google Scholar, 5Bode L. Zimmermann W. Ferszt R. Steinbach F. Ludwig H. Nat. Med. 1995; 1: 232-236Crossref PubMed Scopus (223) Google Scholar, 6de la Torre J.C. Gonzalez-Dunia D. Cubitt B. Mallory M. Mueller-Lantzsch N. Grässer F.A. Hansen L.A. Masliah E. Virology. 1996; 223: 272-282Crossref PubMed Scopus (118) Google Scholar, 7Lipkin W.I. Schneemann A. Solbrig M.V. Trends Microbiol. 1995; 3: 64-69Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (40) Google Scholar, 8Planz O. Rentzsch C. Batra A. Winkler T. Büttner M. Rziha H.J. Stitz L. J. Virol. 1999; 73: 6251-6256Crossref PubMed Google Scholar, 9Nakamura Y. Takahashi H. Shoya Y. Nakaya T. Watanabe M. Tomonaga K. Iwahashi K. Ameno K. Momiyama N. Taniyama H. Sata T. 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Schwartz G.J. Carbone K.M. Dev. Brain Res. 1995; 90: 45-53Crossref PubMed Scopus (85) Google Scholar,17Eisenman L.M. Brothers R. Tran M.H. Kean R.B. Dickson G.M. Dietzschold B. Hooper D.C. J. Neurovirol. 1999; 5: 181-189Crossref PubMed Scopus (63) Google Scholar, 18Gonzalez-Dunia D. Watanabe M. Syan S. Mallory M. Masliah E. de la Torre J.C. J. Virol. 2000; 74: 3441-3448Crossref PubMed Scopus (60) Google Scholar, 19Hornig M. Weissenbock H. Horscroft N. Lipkin W.I. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1999; 96: 12102-12107Crossref PubMed Scopus (228) Google Scholar). BDV is a noncytopathic virus, and the mechanism whereby it causes neuronal pathology is still not understood. Neonatal infection leads to variations in the level of proinflammatory cytokines and to changes in monoamine tissue content as well as in the expression of molecules regulating central nervous system plasticity (18Gonzalez-Dunia D. Watanabe M. Syan S. Mallory M. Masliah E. de la Torre J.C. J. Virol. 2000; 74: 3441-3448Crossref PubMed Scopus (60) Google Scholar, 19Hornig M. Weissenbock H. Horscroft N. Lipkin W.I. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1999; 96: 12102-12107Crossref PubMed Scopus (228) Google Scholar, 20Sauder C. de la Torre J.C. J. Neuroimmunol. 1999; 96: 29-45Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (72) Google Scholar, 21Pletnikov M.V. Rubin S.A. Schwartz G.J. Carbone K.M. Moran T.H. Brain Res. Dev. Brain Res. 2000; 119: 179-185Crossref PubMed Scopus (58) Google Scholar, 22Weissenbock H. Hornig M. Hickey W.F. Lipkin W.I. Brain Pathol. 2000; 10: 260-272Crossref PubMed Scopus (81) Google Scholar). Although these changes might be responsible for part of the pathology, they, however, appear quite late after infection (i.e. at least 3 weeks post-inoculation). A recent study showing that cerebellar damage is observed only if infection occurs before postnatal day 15 suggests that BDV also interferes with early events of postnatal brain development (23Rubin S.A. Bautista J.R. Moran T.H. Schwartz G.J. Carbone K.M. Brain Res. Dev. Brain Res. 1999; 112: 237-244Crossref PubMed Scopus (39) Google Scholar). Therefore, we hypothesized that infection may affect the response to neurotrophic factors that play key roles in early differentiation and survival of neurons. In particular, we decided to investigate whether BDV infection interferes with the response to nerve growth factor (NGF), the prototypic member of the neurotrophin family (24Levi-Montalcini R. Skaper S.D. Dal Toso R. Petrelli L. Leon A. Trends Neurosci. 1996; 19: 514-520Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (604) Google Scholar). As a first step to test this hypothesis, we studied the response to NGF of PC12 cells infected by BDV. The PC12 cell line is a neural crest-derived adrenal chromaffin cell line obtained from a rat pheochromocytoma. PC12 cells exhibit several features of neuronal differentiation following treatment with NGF. They extend neurites, become post-mitotic, and resemble sympathetic neurons (25Greene L.A. Tischler A.S. Adv. Cell. Neurobiol. 1982; 3: 373-414Crossref Google Scholar). Binding of NGF to its receptor, a tyrosine kinase, triggers a cascade of protein phosphorylation events, leading to the activation of several genes. This signal transduction cascade and the genes involved have been studied extensively (26Sassone-Corsi P. Der C.J. Verma I.M. Cell. Biol. 1989; PubMed Scopus Google Scholar, R. J. 1995; PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). we that persistent infection of PC12 cells with BDV leads to changes in cell and expression of genes in synaptic Moreover, infection causes a block in neurite outgrowth and several changes in the NGF signal transduction PC12 cells were at in with II with and were or a cell were at a to in tissue or to or with PC12 cells were infected with BDV as (13Bautista J.R. Schwartz G.J. de la Torre J.C. Moran T.H. Carbone K.M. Brain Res. Bull. 1994; 34: 31-36Crossref PubMed Scopus (96) Google and 3 after the infection to a persistently infected line cells were the as the and PC12 cells were on in for and in for They were treated with NGF for the before RNA was by by with is to and The were for at in and of and were with at the were to the were by in before The following were from the BDV nucleoprotein rat and tyrosine hydroxylase B. A. F. N. J. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. PubMed Scopus Google as well as from rat and from C. and M. The were with obtained with a to the rat glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase were in a C. M. J. J. Neurosci. 1998; PubMed Google and a was by for at and protein was by a protein or on the were by before The was blocked for at in Tris-buffered saline with of or the was at with the in with the were for with or by a extensive in and was by with signal and to When the and the of a the were first with the specific for the the was by in blocked as and with the of the were on a and and We the following a the of mitogen-activated protein kinase and a and and protein the of and a the of and a the BDV la Torre J.C. Gonzalez-Dunia D. Cubitt B. Mallory M. Mueller-Lantzsch N. Grässer F.A. Hansen L.A. Masliah E. Virology. 1996; 223: 272-282Crossref PubMed Scopus (118) Google Scholar). on were with in saline by and for as D. Cubitt B. Grässer F.A. de la Torre J.C. J. Virol. PubMed Google Scholar). after with and for at cells were with in saline cells were with and were extensively as for in and with The were to synaptophysin microtubule-associated protein and NGF We also a to the protein as well as the to the of and to BDV When and were cells were with a were and PC12 cells were infected with BDV as and analyzed at after infection after infected cells were from PC12 of the cells were as by of the nucleoprotein and cell to cells in infected cells and and their to the to on the the changes the cell not neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells persistently infected with BDV PC12 or cells after were on for 3 in the or absence of NGF. The cells were and with We also the response of infected PC12 cells to NGF. 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