TY  - JOUR
A1  - Avota, Elita
A1  - Bodem, Jochen
A1  - Chithelen, Janice
A1  - Mandasari, Putri
A1  - Beyersdorf, Niklas
A1  - Schneider-Schaulies, Jürgen
T1  - The Manifold Roles of Sphingolipids in Viral Infections
JF  - Frontiers in Physiology
N2  - Sphingolipids are essential components of eukaryotic cells. In this review, we want to exemplarily illustrate what is known about the interactions of sphingolipids with various viruses at different steps of their replication cycles. This includes structural interactions during entry at the plasma membrane or endosomal membranes, early interactions leading to sphingolipid-mediated signal transduction, interactions with internal membranes and lipids during replication, and interactions during virus assembly and budding. Targeted interventions in sphingolipid metabolism – as far as they can be tolerated by cells and organisms – may open novel possibilities to support antiviral therapies. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infections have intensively been studied, but for other viral infections, such as influenza A virus (IAV), measles virus (MV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), dengue virus, Ebola virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2), investigations are still in their beginnings. As many inhibitors of sphingolipid metabolism are already in clinical use against other diseases, repurposing studies for applications in some viral infections appear to be a promising approach.
KW  - sphingolipid
KW  - ceramide
KW  - sphingosine-1-phosphate
KW  - plasma membrane
KW  - virus entry
KW  - virus replication
KW  - virus budding
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-246975
SN  - 1664-042X
VL  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Derakhshani, Shaghayegh
A1  - Kurz, Andreas
A1  - Japtok, Lukasz
A1  - Schumacher, Fabian
A1  - Pilgram, Lisa
A1  - Steinke, Maria
A1  - Kleuser, Burkhard
A1  - Sauer, Markus
A1  - Schneider-Schaulies, Sibylle
A1  - Avota, Elita
T1  - Measles virus infection fosters dendritic cell motility in a 3D environment to enhance transmission to target cells in the respiratory epithelium
JF  - Frontiers in Immunology
N2  - Transmission of measles virus (MV) from dendritic to airway epithelial cells is considered as crucial to viral spread late in infection. Therefore, pathways and effectors governing this process are promising targets for intervention. To identify these, we established a 3D respiratory tract model where MV transmission by infected dendritic cells (DCs) relied on the presence of nectin-4 on H358 lung epithelial cells. Access to recipient cells is an important prerequisite for transmission, and we therefore analyzed migration of MV-exposed DC cultures within the model. Surprisingly, enhanced motility toward the epithelial layer was observed for MV-infected DCs as compared to their uninfected siblings. This occurred independently of factors released from H358 cells indicating that MV infection triggered cytoskeletal remodeling associated with DC polarization enforced velocity. Accordingly, the latter was also observed for MV-infected DCs in collagen matrices and was particularly sensitive to ROCK inhibition indicating infected DCs preferentially employed the amoeboid migration mode. This was also implicated by loss of podosomes and reduced filopodial activity both of which were retained in MV-exposed uninfected DCs. Evidently, sphingosine kinase (SphK) and sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) as produced in response to virus-infection in DCs contributed to enhanced velocity because this was abrogated upon inhibition of sphingosine kinase activity. These findings indicate that MV infection promotes a push-and-squeeze fast amoeboid migration mode via the SphK/S1P system characterized by loss of filopodia and podosome dissolution. Consequently, this enables rapid trafficking of virus toward epithelial cells during viral exit.
KW  - dendritic cell
KW  - cell migration
KW  - measles virus
KW  - 3D tissue model
KW  - sphingosine-1-phosphate
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-201818
VL  - 10
IS  - 1294
ER  -