Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence

M Letko, SN Seifert, KJ Olival, RK Plowright… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Most viral pathogens in humans have animal origins and arose through cross-species
transmission. Over the past 50 years, several viruses, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus …

A new era of virus bioinformatics

B Ibrahim, DP McMahon, F Hufsky, M Beer, L Deng… - Virus research, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite the recognized excellence of virology and bioinformatics, these two communities
have interacted surprisingly sporadically, aside from some pioneering work on HIV-1 and …

De novo transcriptome assembly: A comprehensive cross-species comparison of short-read RNA-Seq assemblers

M Hölzer, M Marz - Gigascience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background In recent years, massively parallel complementary DNA sequencing (RNA
sequencing [RNA-Seq]) has emerged as a fast, cost-effective, and robust technology to …

The Egyptian rousette genome reveals unexpected features of bat antiviral immunity

SS Pavlovich, SP Lovett, G Koroleva, JC Guito… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Bats harbor many viruses asymptomatically, including several notorious for causing extreme
virulence in humans. To identify differences between antiviral mechanisms in humans and …

Single-cell profiling of Ebola virus disease in vivo reveals viral and host dynamics

D Kotliar, AE Lin, J Logue, TK Hughes, NM Khoury… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Ebola virus (EBOV) causes epidemics with high mortality yet remains understudied due to
the challenge of experimentation in high-containment and outbreak settings. Here, we used …

The IFN response in bats displays distinctive IFN-stimulated gene expression kinetics with atypical RNASEL induction

D La Cruz-Rivera, C Pamela, M Kanchwala… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.aai.org
Bats host a large number of zoonotic viruses, including several viruses that are highly
pathogenic to other mammals. The mechanisms underlying this rich viral diversity are …

Innate immune responses of bat and human cells to filoviruses: commonalities and distinctions

IV Kuzmin, TM Schwarz, PA Ilinykh, I Jordan… - Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Marburg (MARV) and Ebola (EBOV) viruses are zoonotic pathogens that cause
severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. The natural reservoir of MARV is the Egyptian rousette …

Ebola virus-mediated T-lymphocyte depletion is the result of an abortive infection

P Younan, RI Santos, P Ramanathan… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Ebola virus (EBOV) infections are characterized by a pronounced lymphopenia that is highly
correlative with fatalities. However, the mechanisms leading to T-cell depletion remain …

Advances in analyzing virus-induced alterations of host cell splicing

U Ashraf, C Benoit-Pilven, V Lacroix, V Navratil… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Alteration of host cell splicing is a common feature of many viral infections which is
underappreciated because of the complexity and technical difficulty of studying alternative …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered livers for infectious diseases

N Gural, L Mancio-Silva, J He, SN Bhatia - Cellular and molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Engineered liver systems come in a variety of platform models, from 2-dimensional
cocultures of primary human hepatocytes and stem cell–derived progeny, to 3-dimensional …