VIROLOGI

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3. Historical Notes • Viruses are too small to be seen with a light microscope and cannot be cultured outside their hosts. • Viruses are not new; could not be studied untill 20th century • In 1886, Adolf Mayer showed TMD was transmissible • In 1892, Dimitri Iwanowski demonstrated infectious agent trapped in porcelain filter

4. The first human disease associated with a filterable agent was Yellow fever • Advances in the molecular biological techniques in the 1980s-1990 found several new human and animal viruses: • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) • Hepatitis C virus • SARS-associated coronavirus • West Nile virus

5. General Characteristics • One hundred years ago, it was described as contagium vivum fluidum―a contagious fluid • By the 1930s, the word ‘virus’ started to use • Virus, a latin word for poison, to describe these filterable agents • Until 1935, Wendell Stanley isolated TMD • About the same time, Electron Microscope (EM) was invented

6. Are viruses living organisms? • has an ambigous answer • Life can be defined as a complex set of process resulting from the actions of proteins specified by nucleic acids • NA of living cells are in active all the time • Viruses are inert outside living host cells--- Viruses are NOT alive • But once enter a host cell, the viral nucleic acids become active, and viral multiplication results--- Viruses are ALIVE

7. From clinical point of view, viruses are considered to be alive as they cause infection and disease (just as pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and protozoa do) • Virus may be regarded as an exceptionally complex aggregation of nonliving chemicals, or • An exceptionally simple living microorganism

8. How, then, do we define a virus? • Virus are distinguished from other infectious agents: • small in size (filterable) • obligatory intracellular parasites • However, both these properties are shared by certain small bacteria, such as some rickettsias

9. Viruses compared to bacteria

10. The trully distinctive features of viruses are now known to relate to their: • Simple structural organization (only has nucleic acids and capsid) • Mechanism of multiplication

11. Viruses are entities that: • Contain a single type of nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA • Contain a protein coat (sometimes itself enclosed by an envelope of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates) that surrounds the nucleic acid • Multiply inside living cells by using the synthesizing machinery of the cell • Cause the synthesis of specialized structures that can transfer the viral nucleic acid to other cells

12. Viruses have few or no enzymes of their own for metabolism; for example, they lack enzymes for protein synthesis and ATP generation • To multiply, viruses must take over the metabolic machinery of the host cell • Considerable medical significance for the development of antiviral drugs

13. How virus proliferates?

14. Host Range • The host range of a virus is the spectrum of host cells the virus can infect • There are viruses that infect invertebrata, vertebrata, plants, protists, fungi, and bacteria • Most viruses are able to infect specific types of cells of only one hosts species • In rare cases, viruses cross the host-range barrier • Viruses that infect bacteria are called bacteriophages, or phages

15. Why the host range is limitted? • The particular host range of a virus is determined by: • the virus’s requirements for its specific attachment to the host cell, and • The availability within the potential host of cellular factors required for viral multiplication • For the virus to infect the host cell, the outer surface of the virus muct chemically interact with specific receptor sites on the surface of the cell

16. For some bacteriophages, the receptor site is part of the cell wall of the host • In other cases, it is part of the fimbriae or flagella • For animal viruses, the receptor sites are on the plasma membrane of the host cells • Phage therapy―using bacteriaphage to treat bacterial infections • Viral therapy for killing tumor cells (oncolytic) or cause immune response against tumor cells

17. Structure of Bacteria

18. Viral Size • Viral size are determined with the aid of EM • Most are smaller than bacteria • Some larger viruses (vaccinia virus) are about the same size as some very small bacteria than bacteria (such as mycoplasmas, rickettsias, and chlamydias) • Viruses range from from 20 – 1000 nm in length

19. Size of viruses compared to bacteria & RBC

20. Structure of Virus • Virion is a complete, fully developed, infectious viral particle composed of nucleic acid and surrounded by a protein coat • The role of this protein coat: • Protect virus from the environment • A vehicle of transmission from one host cell to another • Classification (based on its structure)

21. Nucleic acid • Have either DNA or RNA―but never both • Single-stranded (SS) or double-stranded (DS) • DS DNA, SS DNA, DS RNA, SS RNA Viruses • Depending on the virus, NA can be linear or circular • In some virus (such as in the influenza virus), the NA is in several seperate segments

22. The percentage of NA in relation to protein is about 1% for the influenza virus and about 50% for certain bacteriophage • Total NA from thousand nucleotides (or pairs) to as many as 250,000 nucleotides (E. Cloi chromosome consists of approx. 4 million nucleotides)

23. Capsid and Envelope • The NA is protected by a protein coat called capsid • Accounts for most of the mass of a virus • Each capsid composed of protein subunits called capsomers • The arrangements of capsomers is characteristic of a particular type of virus • In some viruses, the capsid is covered by an envelope

24. Envelope consists of some combination of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates • In some viruses, the viral envolepe is derived from a layer of the host cell’s plasma membrane • Depending on the virus, envelopes may or may not be covered by spikes • Spikes are carbohydrate-protein complexes that project from the surface of the envelope • Some virus attach to the host cell by means of spikes

25. Spikes are a reliable characteristic of some virus, can be used for identification • Spikes enable some virus, like the influenza virus and Newcatle disease virus (NDV) to clump red blood cells • Viruses that do not have an envelope are known as nonenveloped or naked viruses • Their NA are protected from nuclease enzymes by their capsid • Capsid also promotes the virus’s attachment

26. Diagram of Influenza virus

27. When the host has been infected by a virus, the host immune system is stimulated to produce antibodies • Abs are proteins that react with the surface proteins of the virus • This interaction should inactivate the virus and stop the infection • However, some virus can escape antibodies because regions of the genes that code for these viruses’ surface proteins are susceptible to mutations • Influenza virus frequently undergoes such changes in its spikes

28. GENERAL MORPHOLOGY • Viruses may be classified into several different morphological types based on the basis of their capsid architecture • The structure of these capsids has been revealed by EM and a technique called X-ray crystallography • These morphological types are: • Helical viruses • Polyhedral viruses • Enveloped viruses • Complexed virus

29. Helical Viruses H V resembles long rods that may be rigid or flexible The viral NA is found within a hollow, cylindrical capsid that has a helical structure The virus that cause rabies and Ebola hemorrhagic fever are helical viruses ,

30. Polyhedral Viruses Many animal, plant, and bacterial viruses are polyhedral, or many-sided, viruses The capsid of most polyhedral viruses is in the shape of an icosahedron, a regular polyhedron with 20 triangular faces and 12 corners The capsomers of each face form an aquilateral triangle. Example of this is the adenovirus & poliovirus

31. Enveloped virus The capsid is covered by an envelope Enveloped viruses are roughly spherical When helical or polyhedral viruses are enclosed by enveloped, they are called enveloped helical or enveloped polyhedral viruses Example is the influenza virus

32. Complex Viruses • Some viruses, particularly bacterial viruses, have complicated structure and are called complex viruses • Some bacteriophage have capsids to which additional structures are attached • In this figure, notice that the capsid (head) is polyhedral and the tail sheath is helical • The head contains the NA • Notice also other additional structures: the tail sheath, tail fiber, plate, and pin

33. Bacteriophage

34. Summary of morphological types

35. Taxonomy of Viruses • Help to organize and undestand newly discovered organisms • The oldest classification was based on symptomatology (convenient but not scientifically acceptable as the same virus could cause > 1 disease) • Virologist started to address th problem since 1966 • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) was formed since then

36. Viruses has been grouping into families based on: • (1) nucleic acid type • (2)strategy for replication • (3) morphology or the structure of the virion. • Virus orders are designated by the suffix -virales.In orders, phylogenetically-related families are groupedtogether. • Only two orders containing viruses of animalshave been defined so far. • These are the Mononegaviralescomprising the families Paramyxoviridae,Rhabdoviridae, Bornaviridae and Filoviridae and theNidovirales comprising the families Coronaviridae andArteriviridae.

37. The suffix -virinaedenotes a subfamily. Viral genera aredesignated by the suffix -virus • Of more than 50 families currently recognized, about 22 contain viruses of veterinary importance • More than 230 genera are recognized

38. Species of viruses • The species taxon is regarded as themost important level in the classification of viruses. • A viral species is a group of viruses sharing the same genetic information and echological niche (host range) • Specific epithets for viruses are not used • Viral species are dessignated by descriptive common names, such as Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with subspecies (if any) designated by a number (HIV-1)