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Visualization of early influenza A virus trafficking in human dendritic cells using STED microscopy

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PLoS One. 2017 Jun 7;12(6):e0177920. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177920. eCollection 2017.
[h=1]Visualization of early influenza A virus trafficking in human dendritic cells using STED microscopy.[/h] Baharom F[SUP]1[/SUP], Thomas OS[SUP]1[/SUP], Lepzien R[SUP]1[/SUP], Mellman I[SUP]2[/SUP], Chalouni C[SUP]2[/SUP], Smed-S?rensen A[SUP]1[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Influenza A viruses (IAV) primarily target respiratory epithelial cells, but can also replicate in immune cells, including human dendritic cells (DCs). Super-resolution microscopy provides a novel method of visualizing viral trafficking by overcoming the resolution limit imposed by conventional light microscopy, without the laborious sample preparation of electron microscopy. Using three-color Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy, we visualized input IAV nucleoprotein (NP), early and late endosomal compartments (EEA1 and LAMP1 respectively), and HLA-DR (DC membrane/cytosol) by immunofluorescence in human DCs. Surface bound IAV were internalized within 5 min of infection. The association of virus particles with early endosomes peaked at 5 min when 50% of NP+ signals were also EEA1+. Peak association with late endosomes occurred at 15 min when 60% of NP+ signals were LAMP1+. At 30 min of infection, the majority of NP signals were in the nucleus. Our findings illustrate that early IAV trafficking in human DCs proceeds via the classical endocytic pathway.


PMID: 28591131 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177920
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