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Coxsackievirus B3 and adenovirus infections of cardiac cells are efficiently inhibited by vector-mediated RNA interference targeting their common receptor

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As coxsackievirus B3 (CoxB3) and adenoviruses may cause acute myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy, isolation of the common coxsackievirus–adenovirus-receptor (CAR) has provided an interesting new target for molecular antiviral therapy. Whereas many viruses show high mutation rates enabling them to develop escape mutants, mutations of their cellular virus receptors are far less likely. We report on antiviral efficacies of CAR gene silencing by short hairpin (sh)RNAs in the cardiac-derived HL-1 cell line and in primary neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (PNCMs). Treatment with shRNA vectors mediating RNA interference against the CAR resulted in almost complete silencing of receptor expression both in HL-1 cells and PNCMs. Whereas CAR was silenced in HL-1 cells as early as 24 h after vector treatment, its downregulation in PNCMs did not become significant before day 6. CAR knockout resulted in inhibition of CoxB3 infections by up to 97% in HL-1 cells and up to 90% in PNCMs. Adenovirus was inhibited by only 75% in HL-1 cells, but up to 92% in PNCMs. We conclude that CAR knockout by shRNA vectors is efficient against CoxB3 and adenovirus in primary cardiac cells, but the efficacy of this approach in vivo may be influenced by cell type-specific silencing kinetics in different tissues.

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Abbreviations

AdV:

adenoviral vector

CAR:

coxsackievirus–adenovirus-receptor

CoxB3:

coxsackievirus B3

PNCMs:

primary neonatal rat cardiomyocytes

RNAi:

RNA interference

shCAR:

shRNA against CAR

shRNA:

short hairpin RNA

siRNA:

short interfering RNA.

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This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through grants SFB-TR-19/C5 to WP and HF and SFB-TR-19/C1 to JK. We thank Denise Werk for generating the shRNA expression cassette against hCAR.

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  1. Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    H Fechner, S Pinkert, X Wang, I Sipo, L Suckau, A Dörner, H-P Schultheiss & W Poller

  2. Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    J Kurreck

  3. Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Stockholm Branch, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    K Sollerbrant

  4. Department of Virology, Institute of Infectious Diseases, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    H Zeichhardt & H-P Grunert

  5. Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Fechner, H., Pinkert, S., Wang, X. et al. Coxsackievirus B3 and adenovirus infections of cardiac cells are efficiently inhibited by vector-mediated RNA interference targeting their common receptor. Gene Ther 14, 960–971 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.gt.3302948

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