Interaction between noroviruses and human histo-blood group antigens

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  • 最近話題のウイルス　　２．ノロウイルスと血液型抗原
  • ノロウイルスと血液型抗原
  • ノロウイルス ト ケツエキガタ コウゲン

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Norovirus (NoV), a member of the family Caliciviridae, is a major cause of water and food-borne acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis, and forms many morphologically similar but antigenically diverse groups of viruses. The virus-like particles (VLPs) derived from the prototype strain of NoV, Norwalk virus (NV/68), bind to histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs). HBGAs are carbohydrates that contain structurally related saccharide moieties, and are found in saliva and mucosal secretions from intestinal epithelial cells of secretor individuals who have FUT2 gene encoding a fucosyltransferase. From volunteer challenge studies, there is strong evidence that the carbohydrate-binding is essential for the NV/68 infection. Non-secretors, who do not express FUT2 fucosyltransferase and consequently do not express H type 1 or Leb in the gut, were not infected after the challenge with NV/68. However, other NoV VLPs display different ABH and Lewis carbohydrate-binding profiles, and indeed epidemiological studies showed that some NoV strains could infect individuals with another ABH phenotypes. GII/4 is known to be global epidemic strain and bound more HBGAs when compared with other strains. The strength of the transmission of GII/4 strains may be linked with their wide recognition of HBGAs. It is obvious that HBGAs are important factors to determine the host specificity, although it is still unclear whether the HBGAs act as the primary receptor or enhance NoV infectivity. Further investigation is needed.

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  • Uirusu

    Uirusu 57 (2), 181-189, 2007

    The Japanese Society for Virology

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