VirologyPub Date : 2025-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2025.110709
Kent M Mulkey, Taiye S Adewumi, Robert L Unckless
{"title":"Specificity of Drosophila innubila Nudivirus infection in Drosophila cell culture.","authors":"Kent M Mulkey, Taiye S Adewumi, Robert L Unckless","doi":"10.1016/j.virol.2025.110709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2025.110709","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Viral host range is an important aspect of both viral biology but also the pragmatic issue of producing viral stocks for experimentation. Host range is important both in terms of the species a virus can infect (taxonomy), and the types of host cells the virus can infect (tropism). Nudiviruses are large DNA viruses that infect several arthropods and are generally poorly studied. Several nudiviruses infect Drosophila species including the Drosophila innubila Nudivirus (DiNV). We aimed to identify cell lines that support the replication of DiNV both for the sake of understanding host range, and to develop a system for large scale production of the virus for infection. We utilized cell lines from the focal host, D. innubila, as well as available cell lines from D. virilis and D. melanogaster and inoculated with both a wild-collected pool of \"naïve\" virus and a D. innubila cell culture-adapted isolate. We found that virus from wild caught flies infected cells from the 3 cell lines and replicated its genome, but the passage 1 fluids from these infections were unable to reinfect upon introduction to new cells. In contrast, a cell culture-adapted strain of DiNV infected the same Drosophila cells (though relatively poorly in D. melanogaster cells) and produced infectious progeny that infected new cells. Thus, our cell culture-adapted virus developed the ability to infect broadly and produce infectious virions.</p>","PeriodicalId":94266,"journal":{"name":"Virology","volume":"613 ","pages":"110709"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145246178","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}
VirologyPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110101
Xiaofu Wan, Jacques Mahillon, Zhiming Yuan, Lichen Yin, Gan Zhang, Peiling Geng, Xiao Hu
{"title":"Characterization of vB_SalS_PSa2, a T5-like Demerecviridae bacteriophage, and its potential use in food matrices.","authors":"Xiaofu Wan, Jacques Mahillon, Zhiming Yuan, Lichen Yin, Gan Zhang, Peiling Geng, Xiao Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.virol.2024.110101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2024.110101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94266,"journal":{"name":"Virology","volume":"51 10","pages":"110101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141035568","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}
VirologyPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110095
K. Melo, Carolina Ramos dos Santos, Edna Cristina Santos Franco, A. J. Martins Filho, Samir Mansour Moraes Casseb, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos
{"title":"Exploring the Interplay between miRNAs, Apoptosis and Viral Load, in Dengue Virus Infection","authors":"K. Melo, Carolina Ramos dos Santos, Edna Cristina Santos Franco, A. J. Martins Filho, Samir Mansour Moraes Casseb, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos","doi":"10.1016/j.virol.2024.110095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2024.110095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94266,"journal":{"name":"Virology","volume":"48 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141035608","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}
VirologyPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110029
R.K. Mohana Pradeep, V. Rakesh, N. Boopathi, M. Siva, S. Kousalya, K. Nagendran, G. Karthikeyan
{"title":"Emerging challenges in the management of Orthotospoviruses in Indian agriculture","authors":"R.K. Mohana Pradeep, V. Rakesh, N. Boopathi, M. Siva, S. Kousalya, K. Nagendran, G. Karthikeyan","doi":"10.1016/j.virol.2024.110029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2024.110029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94266,"journal":{"name":"Virology","volume":"299 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139825120","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}
VirologyPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110014
Tingting Li, Jun Zheng, Tao Huang, Xiao Wang, Jiangnan Li, Feng Jin, Wenjuan Wei, Xin Chen, Chuanxia Liu, Miaofei Bao, Gaihong Zhao, Li Huang, Dongming Zhao, Jianxin Chen, Z. Bu, C. Weng
{"title":"Identification of several African swine fever virus replication inhibitors by screening of a library of FDA-approved drugs","authors":"Tingting Li, Jun Zheng, Tao Huang, Xiao Wang, Jiangnan Li, Feng Jin, Wenjuan Wei, Xin Chen, Chuanxia Liu, Miaofei Bao, Gaihong Zhao, Li Huang, Dongming Zhao, Jianxin Chen, Z. Bu, C. Weng","doi":"10.1016/j.virol.2024.110014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2024.110014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94266,"journal":{"name":"Virology","volume":"1 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139880252","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}
VirologyPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110013
Qi Liu, Menglin Li, Xuanyu Dong, Chengxiao Zuo, Zhangyao Nie, Zongying Zhang, Cheng-Gui Han, Ying Wang
{"title":"Development of full-length infectious cDNA clones and host range identification of an echinacea strain of tobacco streak virus","authors":"Qi Liu, Menglin Li, Xuanyu Dong, Chengxiao Zuo, Zhangyao Nie, Zongying Zhang, Cheng-Gui Han, Ying Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.virol.2024.110013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2024.110013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94266,"journal":{"name":"Virology","volume":"14 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139883195","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}