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Abstract

Ectromelia virus (ECTV) is a causative agent of mousepox. It provides a suitable model for studying the immunobiology of orthopoxviruses, including their interaction with the host cell cytoskeleton. As professional antigen-presenting cells, dendritic cells (DCs) control the pericellular environment, capture antigens, and present them to T lymphocytes after migration to secondary lymphoid organs. Migration of immature DCs is possible due to the presence of specialized adhesion structures, such as podosomes or focal adhesions (FAs). Since assembly and disassembly of adhesive structures are highly associated with DCs’ immunoregulatory and migratory functions, we evaluated how ECTV infection targets podosomes and FAs’ organization and formation in natural-host bone marrow-derived DCs (BMDC). We found that ECTV induces a rapid dissolution of podosomes at the early stages of infection, accompanied by the development of larger and wider FAs than in uninfected control cells. At later stages of infection, FAs were predominantly observed in long cellular extensions, formed extensively by infected cells. Dissolution of podosomes in ECTV-infected BMDCs was not associated with maturation and increased 2D cell migration in a wound healing assay; however, accelerated transwell migration of ECTV-infected cells towards supernatants derived from LPS-conditioned BMDCs was observed. We suggest that ECTV-induced changes in the spatial organization of adhesive structures in DCs may alter the adhesiveness/migration of DCs during some conditions, e.g., inflammation.

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Title
Ectromelia Virus Affects the Formation and Spatial Organization of Adhesive Structures in Murine Dendritic Cells In Vitro
Author
Biernacka, Zuzanna 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Gregorczyk-Zboroch, Karolina 1 ; Lasocka, Iwona 2 ; Ostrowska, Agnieszka 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Struzik, Justyna 1 ; Gieryńska, Małgorzata 1 ; Toka, Felix N 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Szulc-Dąbrowska, Lidia 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Preclinical Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; [email protected] (Z.B.); [email protected] (K.G.-Z.); [email protected] (J.S.); [email protected] (M.G.); [email protected] (F.N.T.) 
 Department of Biology of Animal Environment, Institute of Animal Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; [email protected] 
 Department of Nanobiotechnology, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; [email protected] 
 Department of Preclinical Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland; [email protected] (Z.B.); [email protected] (K.G.-Z.); [email protected] (J.S.); [email protected] (M.G.); [email protected] (F.N.T.); Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Basseterre P.O. Box 334, Saint Kitts and Nevis 
First page
558
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
MDPI AG
ISSN
16616596
e-ISSN
14220067
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2912805353
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.