UirusuPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.2222/jsv.75.111
Masamichi Isogai
{"title":"[How viruses hitch a ride on pollen to infect plants].","authors":"Masamichi Isogai","doi":"10.2222/jsv.75.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.75.111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some plant viruses are transmitted to new host plants via pollen. However, since the first report of pollen transmission of plant viruses in 1918, the fundamental mechanisms underlying this process have remained unresolved. Pollen transmission of plant viruses is classified into two types: vertical transmission via pollen and horizontal transmission via pollen. Recently, we have obtained important insights into these mechanisms. In vertical transmission via pollen, it was suggested that when virus-infected pollen grains germinate, the pollen tubes deliver the sperm cells required for fertilization into the embryo sacs while simultaneously introducing the virus, resulting in the formation of virus-infected seeds. In contrast, in horizontal transmission via pollen, it was suggested that pollen tubes that have accumulated the virus penetrate and elongate within the stigma, establishing the initial virus infection sites. The infection then expanded into the vascular tissues of the stigma and style, and subsequently spread throughout the plant via the phloem. Thus, pollenborne viruses are thought to exploit the sexual reproduction system of seed plants, using pollen as a vector to achieve both horizontal and vertical transmission. In this review, we provide an overview of our research conducted to date on the transmission mechanisms of pollen-borne viruses.</p>","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"75 2","pages":"111-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147517460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UirusuPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.2222/jsv.75.165
Takafumi Shichijo, Jun-Ichirou Yasunaga
{"title":"[Nuclear Translocation of HTLV-1 bZIP Factor by Activation of the TGF-β/Smad Pathway: A Key Molecular Mechanism for HTLV-1 Oncogenesis].","authors":"Takafumi Shichijo, Jun-Ichirou Yasunaga","doi":"10.2222/jsv.75.165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.75.165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"75 2","pages":"165-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147517409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Measles virus].","authors":"Fumio Seki, Makoto Takeda","doi":"10.2222/jsv.75.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.75.13","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Measles virus is the pathogen that causes measles and is highly infectious. Measles virus uses two molecules as viral receptors: signaling lymphocytic activation molecule, expressed on immune cells, and nectin-4, expressed on epithelial cells. Usage of these receptors is strongly associated with the pathogenesis of measles. Although it remains a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, measles elimination is being promoted by the availability of a highly effective live attenuated vaccines. Due to the elimination of measles in many countries, the circulating measles genotypes have been reduced to two, B3 and D8, in recent years. Therefore, in addition to genotyping using the conventional 450-nucleotide N gene region, new methods such as wholegenome sequencing and analysis of the M-F non-coding region are being tested for case association and outbreak tracking. Although measles virus is a single serotype, there are genomic differences among genotypes, including variations in B-cell and T-cell epitopes. However, current live attenuated vaccines remain sufficiently effective against all genotypes. On the other hand, the maintenance of protective immunity in vaccinees may become increasingly important, since vaccine-induced immunity tends to wane over time unlike the more durable immunity following natural infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"75 1","pages":"13-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145187871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UirusuPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.2222/jsv.75.121
Hidekazu Nishimura
{"title":"[The multidisciplinary study, \"Aerosol virology/Aerovirology\"-A new frontier].","authors":"Hidekazu Nishimura","doi":"10.2222/jsv.75.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.75.121","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred vigorous research in a field that is old but new, a fusion of aerosol science and virology, each with its own history. I tentatively refer to this interdisciplinary field as \"aerosol virology\". This review article aims to convey the appeal of research in this field to virologists unfamiliar with aerosol science, covering fundamental knowledge of aerosols. In fact, preceding this article, I had published in the Japanese Journal of Aerosol Science a companion review with this, titled \"An Introduction to Aerosol Virology\"1), which included basic virological knowledge for members less familiar with viruses, aiming to spark their interest in the field. To advance \"aerosol virology\", it is necessary to approach research goals with knowledge of both aerosol science and virology, not just one field. This represents a largely unexplored frontier even for virology. I hope members of the Virology Society will venture into this frontier. Both reviews were written with this aspiration in mind.</p>","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"75 2","pages":"121-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147517432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Effects of aging and inflammation on antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell responses that protect against severe disease following SARS-CoV-2 infection].","authors":"Takuto Nogimori, Takuya Yamamoto","doi":"10.2222/jsv.75.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.75.47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"75 1","pages":"47-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145187729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UirusuPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.2222/jsv.74.153
Yorihiro Nishimura
{"title":"[SCARB2, one of the receptors for enterovirus A71, is not expressed on the cell surface.]","authors":"Yorihiro Nishimura","doi":"10.2222/jsv.74.153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.74.153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"74 2","pages":"153-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143538214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Development and Implementation of HPV Vaccination].","authors":"Nagayasu Egawa","doi":"10.2222/jsv.74.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.74.9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cervical cancer is primarily caused by infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) and has become a disease that can be effectively prevented through vaccination and cervical screening. This review briefly summarises the virological background, development process, and actual implementation of HPV prophylactic vaccines, which are a key pillar of prevention. With prophylactic HPV vaccination and cervical screening, the incidence of HPV-related cancers is expected to decrease significantly. The ultimate goal is to achieve a society with \"One Less Worry\" about HPV infections and the cancers they cause.</p>","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"74 1","pages":"9-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142775472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 variants using mini-gut organoids].","authors":"Kei Miyakawa","doi":"10.2222/jsv.74.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.74.45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"74 1","pages":"45-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142775414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Elucidation of the molecular basis of negative-strand RNA virus genome replication].","authors":"Yusuke Matsumoto","doi":"10.2222/jsv.74.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2222/jsv.74.67","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The negative-strand RNA viruses are a group that includes many important pathogens. They share the common mechanism of genome replication and mRNA transcription. The viruses possess multifunctional RNA-dependent RNA polymerase that is responsible for all RNA synthesis activity, and the genome RNA is entirely covered with viral nucleoprotein. We aimed to understand these viruses in general by identifying the similarities and differences among each virus group. The viruses belonging to the family Paramyxoviridae in the order Mononegavirales is known to follow the \"Rule of Six\", which states that the number of nucleotides in the genome must be a multiple of six to be replicated. We have succeeded in generating a paramyxovirus that does not follow the Rule of Six and challenged to elucidate the significance of the Rule of Six using this recombinant virus. We also performed functional analysis of the promoter structure at the end of the genome of the viruses belonging to the order Bunyavirales and revealed unique features of RNA synthesis that differ from other segmented RNA viruses in the family Nairoviridae. Furthermore, we elucidated the unique mechanism of the Borna disease virus to establish persistent infection in the nucleus that is an exceptional property among RNA viruses.</p>","PeriodicalId":75275,"journal":{"name":"Uirusu","volume":"74 1","pages":"67-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142775505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}