Species-Specific Pathogenicity of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Is Determined by Anti-STAT2 Activity of NSs

Journal of Virology
Rokusuke YoshikawaJiro Yasuda

Abstract

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is a novel emerging virus that has been identified in China, South Korea, and Japan, and it induces thrombocytopenia and leukocytopenia in humans with a high case fatality rate. SFTSV is pathogenic to humans, while immunocompetent adult mice and golden Syrian hamsters infected with SFTSV never show apparent symptoms. However, mice deficient for the gene encoding the α chain of the alpha- and beta-interferon receptor (Ifnar1-/- mice) and golden Syrian hamsters deficient for the gene encoding signal transducer and activator of transcription 2 (Stat2-/- hamsters) are highly susceptible to SFTSV infection, with infection resulting in death. The nonstructural protein (NSs) of SFTSV has been reported to inhibit the type I IFN response through sequestration of human STAT proteins. Here, we demonstrated that SFTSV induces lethal acute disease in STAT2-deficient mice but not in STAT1-deficient mice. Furthermore, we discovered that NSs cannot inhibit type I IFN signaling in murine cells due to an inability to bind to murine STAT2. Taken together, our results imply that the dysfunction of NSs in antagonizing murine STAT2 can lead to inefficient replication and the loss of pathogene...Continue Reading

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