{"title":"[Deciphering the links between hepatic viruses and interferons: molecular interactions and therapeutic implications].","authors":"Cassandre Authier, Claudie Eber, Roxanne Fouillé, Julie Lucifora, Eloi R Verrier","doi":"10.1684/vir.2025.1076","DOIUrl":"10.1684/vir.2025.1076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interferons (IFNs) are cytokines that play a key role in the innate immune response, possessing antiviral, antiproliferative, and immunomodulatory properties. Currently, IFNs are used clinically as treatments for lymphomas, multiple sclerosis, and chronic viral infections such as hepatitis B, C, D, and E virus infections. HEV infection can lead to fulminant hepatitis, while chronic infections with HBV, HCV, and HDV are the leading global causes of hepatocellular carcinoma. Despite their limited efficacy and numerous side effects, IFNs remain essential in the treatment of these infections. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge on the interactions between hepatic viruses and the IFN pathway to understand the virus-dependent molecular mechanisms involved in IFN induction and its antiviral effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":49377,"journal":{"name":"Virologie","volume":"29 1","pages":"19-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143587621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VirologiePub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1684/vir.2025.1070
Eva Lopez, Coralie Valle, Bruno Coutard
{"title":"[MMLV reverse transcriptase, a relevant tool for molecular biology].","authors":"Eva Lopez, Coralie Valle, Bruno Coutard","doi":"10.1684/vir.2025.1070","DOIUrl":"10.1684/vir.2025.1070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The reverse transcriptase of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus (MMLV) is an enzyme that synthesizes DNA from an RNA template. Among reverse transcriptases, this enzyme is currently the most commonly used in molecular biology and diagnostics. Since its discovery, this viral protein has been extensively studied, shedding light on its structural and functional characteristics, and offering opportunities to optimize the catalytic performances for biotechnological applications. The review describes the structural motifs of the reverse transcriptase of MMLV, the key amino acids in enzymatic catalysis and the enzyme's properties such as processivity, fidelity and thermal stability. This review reports the optimizations made to improve these parameters, which enabled the modified enzymes to be integrated in the molecular biology tests used in the laboratory on a daily basis.</p>","PeriodicalId":49377,"journal":{"name":"Virologie","volume":"29 1","pages":"7-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143587666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VirologiePub Date : 2024-12-30DOI: 10.1684/vir.2024.1071
Floris Schatt, Anne-Sophie Gosselin-Grenet
{"title":"[XIX<sup>e</sup> atelier international sur les parvovirus (Leuven, Belgique), 03-06 septembre 2024].","authors":"Floris Schatt, Anne-Sophie Gosselin-Grenet","doi":"10.1684/vir.2024.1071","DOIUrl":"10.1684/vir.2024.1071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49377,"journal":{"name":"Virologie","volume":"28 6","pages":"371-372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142866057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VirologiePub Date : 2024-12-30DOI: 10.1684/vir.2024.1066
Adrien Delpal
{"title":"[37th International Conference on Antiviral Research (ICAR)].","authors":"Adrien Delpal","doi":"10.1684/vir.2024.1066","DOIUrl":"10.1684/vir.2024.1066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49377,"journal":{"name":"Virologie","volume":"28 6","pages":"349-350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142607155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VirologiePub Date : 2024-12-30DOI: 10.1684/vir.2024.1068
Jean-Nicolas Tournier, Noël Tordo, David Gilmer, Anne Gatignol
{"title":"[From viral disease gender to viral species subclassification: how to find our way around?]","authors":"Jean-Nicolas Tournier, Noël Tordo, David Gilmer, Anne Gatignol","doi":"10.1684/vir.2024.1068","DOIUrl":"10.1684/vir.2024.1068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49377,"journal":{"name":"Virologie","volume":"28 6","pages":"353-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142872896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VirologiePub Date : 2024-12-30DOI: 10.1684/vir.2024.1067
N Tordo, Melissa Ait Said, Alice Decombe, Martin Ferrie, Margaux Heuschkel, Antoine Rebendenne, Emma Partiot, Benjamin Guinet, Julian Agustin Bulssico
{"title":"[Joint Thesis Award 2023 of the Société française de virologie and ANRS | Maladies infectieuses émergentes].","authors":"N Tordo, Melissa Ait Said, Alice Decombe, Martin Ferrie, Margaux Heuschkel, Antoine Rebendenne, Emma Partiot, Benjamin Guinet, Julian Agustin Bulssico","doi":"10.1684/vir.2024.1067","DOIUrl":"10.1684/vir.2024.1067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49377,"journal":{"name":"Virologie","volume":"28 6","pages":"351-360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142607157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VirologiePub Date : 2024-12-30DOI: 10.1684/vir.2024.1069
Aurélie Grange, Victor Mouton, Mael Roojee, Sylvain Rosec, Adissa Tran, Christopher Payan
{"title":"[Human papillomaviruses : origin, oncogenic factors and markers for cervical cancer screening].","authors":"Aurélie Grange, Victor Mouton, Mael Roojee, Sylvain Rosec, Adissa Tran, Christopher Payan","doi":"10.1684/vir.2024.1069","DOIUrl":"10.1684/vir.2024.1069","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Human papillomaviruses (HPV) have existed in the human population since the archaic hominids. Over the course of human migration and evolution, HPVs have co-evolved with humans on all continents to become today the leading cause of cervical cancer. HPVs are classified by genera, species, genotype, lineage, sub-lineage and variants. Among more than 200 HPV genotypes, HPV16 is the most common and the most oncogenic at high-risk (HPV-HR). If viral oncogenesis is governed by numerous factors and mechanisms involving the virus and its host, the E6/E7 oncogenic proteins of HR-HPV play a central role and are always expressed in cervical cancers. Those of HPV16 have the greatest affinity for cellular proteins involved in cellular control, p53/E6 and pRb/E7. Some E6/E7 HPV16 mutants are associated with persistent infection, correlating with viral lineages and their ethnic and geographical origin. If the splicing of viral mRNAs encoding E6/E7 allows the overexpression of the E7 protein, which is an essential condition for the establishment of HR-HPV oncogenesis, other mechanisms contribute to strengthening it. On the one hand, the accidental integration of the viral genome, in particular the E1/E2 coding region, participates in the transformation of the infected cell. On the other hand, hypermethylation of the viral L1/L2 genomic regions is observed in the advanced stages of infection. Different methods for analyzing mutations, splice sites, integrations and methylations of the viral genome have been described. These virological markers could complete the detection of HR-HPV in the context of cervical cancer screening, currently recommended in France.</p>","PeriodicalId":49377,"journal":{"name":"Virologie","volume":"28 6","pages":"357-368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VirologiePub Date : 2024-12-20DOI: 10.1684/vir.2024.1070
Eva Lopez, Coralie Valle, Bruno Coutard
{"title":"[MMLV reverse transcriptase, a relevant tool for molecular biology].","authors":"Eva Lopez, Coralie Valle, Bruno Coutard","doi":"10.1684/vir.2024.1070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1684/vir.2024.1070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The reverse transcriptase of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus (MMLV) is an enzyme that synthesizes DNA from an RNA template. Among reverse transcriptases, this enzyme is currently the most commonly used in molecular biology and diagnostics. Since its discovery, this viral protein has been extensively studied, shedding light on its structural and functional characteristics, and offering opportunities to optimize the catalytic performances for biotechnological applications. The review describes the structural motifs of the reverse transcriptase of MMLV, the key amino acids in enzymatic catalysis and the enzyme's properties such as processivity, fidelity and thermal stability. This review reports the optimizations made to improve these parameters, which enabled the modified enzymes to be integrated in the molecular biology tests used in the laboratory on a daily basis.</p>","PeriodicalId":49377,"journal":{"name":"Virologie","volume":"0 0","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142866056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}