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. 1993 Mar 1;90(5):2020–2024. doi: 10.1073/pnas.90.5.2020

Poxvirus-induced alteration of arachidonate metabolism.

G J Palumbo 1, W C Glasgow 1, R M Buller 1
PMCID: PMC46012  PMID: 8383332

Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that orthopoxviruses have an obligate requirement for arachidonic acid metabolites during replication in vivo and in vitro. Our report indicates that a virus family (Poxviridae) possesses multiple genes that function to regulate arachidonate metabolism. Analyses of BS-C-1 cells infected with cowpox virus or vaccinia virus detected enhanced arachidonate product formation from both the cyclooxygenase (specifically prostaglandins E2 and F2 alpha) and lipoxygenase (specifically 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid and 12-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid) pathways. In contrast, human parainfluenza type 3 or herpes simplex virus type 1 infections did not increase arachidonate metabolism. Results were consistent with a virus early-gene product either directly mediating or inducing a host factor that mediated the up-regulation of arachidonate metabolism, although vaccinia growth factor was not responsible. In addition, the cowpox virus 38-kDa protein-encoding gene, which is associated with inhibition of an inflammatory response, correlated with inhibition of formation of a product biochemically characteristic of (14R,15S)-dihydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid. We propose that orthopoxvirus-induced up-regulation of arachidonic acid metabolism during infection renders the infected cells susceptible to generation of inflammatory mediators from both the cyclooxygenase and the lipoxygenase pathways, and poxviruses, therefore, possess at least one gene (38K) that can alter the lipoxygenase-metabolite spectrum.

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