title: Trafficking and replication patterns reveal splenic macrophages as major targets of dengue virus in mice.
abstract: Human postmortem studies of natural dengue virus (DENV) infection have reported systemically distributed viral antigen. Although it is widely accepted that DENV infects mononuclear phagocytes, the sequence in which specific tissues and cell types are targeted remains uncharacterized. We previously reported that mice lacking alpha/beta and gamma interferon receptors permit high levels of DENV replication and show signs of systemic disease (T. R. Prestwood et al., J. Virol. 82:8411-8421, 2008). Here we demonstrate that within 6 h, DENV traffics to and replicates in both CD169(+) and SIGN-R1(+) macrophages of the splenic marginal zone or draining lymph node, respectively, following intravenous or intrafootpad inoculation. Subsequently, high levels of replication are detected in F4/80(+) splenic red pulp macrophages and in the bone marrow, lymph nodes, and Peyer's patches. Intravenously inoculated mice begin to succumb to dengue disease 72 h after infection, at which time viral replication occurs systemically, except in lymphoid tissues. In particular, high levels of replication occur in CD68(+) macrophages of the kidneys, heart, thymus, and gastrointestinal tract. Over the course of infection, proportionately large quantities of DENV traffic to the liver and spleen. However, late during infection, viral trafficking to the spleen decreases, while trafficking to the liver, thymus, and kidneys increases. The present study demonstrates that macrophage populations, initially in the spleen and other lymphoid tissues and later in nonlymphoid tissues, are major targets of DENV infection in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA.
authors.forename: Tyler R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Prestwood
authors.forename: Monica M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: Emily M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Plummer
authors.forename: Malika M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Morar
authors.forename: Lauren E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Yauch
authors.forename: Sujan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shresta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000821:virology; D018968:CD58 Antigens / Q000096:biosynthesis; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000096:biosynthesis; D003715:Dengue / Q000378:metabolism / Q000821:virology*; D003716:Dengue Virus / Q000378:metabolism*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000379:methods; D007700:Kinetics; D037181:Lectins, C-Type / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000821:virology; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology* / Q000821:virology; D051379:Mice; D010581:Peyer's Patches / Q000821:virology; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000096:biosynthesis; D063267:Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 1 / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology* / Q000821:virology; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D014779:Virus Replication; D000099215:DC-Specific ICAM-3 Grabbing Nonintegrin
chemical_list: D018968:CD58 Antigens; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D037181:Lectins, C-Type; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D063267:Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 1; D000099215:DC-Specific ICAM-3 Grabbing Nonintegrin