Microbiology and Immunology 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Poliovirus, Phagocytosis, Conformational Change

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30 Jun 2016

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Western University

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Microbiology and Immunology

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Microbiology and Immunology 2500A/B

Professor

Summers/ Mc Cormick/ Dikeakos

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Recognition: what is on the outside of a virus to recognize a host cell to attach to. Viruses are small but not that small; molecs that require passive diffusion don"t need elaborate mechs that viruses need since they"re smaller. Viruses require host cell receptors since they"re larger. Virion must be both stable and unstable, and it varies depending on the infectious cycle time. There is stability when you are recognizing the host cell receptor on the outside, and when exposing genome unstable. To remove capsid and expose genome and use host machinery to produce viral proteins. If you"re a virus and looking for a susceptible and permissive cell, you"re looking to attach something on the outside of the cell. These virions will look around and find all these receptors (these are random electrostatic interactions, with things colliding with each other and not the specific interactions that are needed to initiate the viral infectious cycle)

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In this lab exercise you will watch animations about viruses and answer questions about them.

ANIMATION #2

Click on the link below to watch an animation by McGraw-Hill about the entry of a virus into an animal host cell:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072556781/student_view0/chapter18/animation_quiz_1.html

Answer the following questions about the animation:

1. Name the green molecules embedded in the envelope of the virus, or virion:

2. What do these molecules attach to on the host cell membrane?

3. What does the envelope of the virus fuse with in order to release the viral capsid into the host cell?

4. What is the innermost part of the virus that is released by the protein capsid into the cytoplasm of the host cell?

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2.)

a.) Are viruses that infect Archaea different from other bacterial viruses?

Yes, they do not have protein coats because of the extreme conditions where they live.

No, they consist of nucleic acid and protein just like other bacterial viruses.

Yes, the structure of archaeal viruses is always completely different from other bacterial viruses.

Yes, they have only DNA genomes.

b.) Of the following examples, which is not a common part of many viral life cycles?

The pox virus genome is replicated by DNA polymerase.

Adenoviruses attach to the cell and the nucleocapsid is taken up by the cell.

Pox viruses replicate in the cytoplasm of the cell.

Once an adenovirus virion is inside a cell, host RNA polymerases transcribe early genes

c.) Some viruses are associated with cancer. There are a variety of ways in which viruses may affect a cell in a way that may lead to cancer. Based on your knowledge of the life cycles of viruses and of molecular genetics, what is one way that this might happen?

Viral genetic material inserts into a host genome close to the termination sequence, far downstream of the promoter, and causes a silent mutation.

Viral genetic material inserts into a host genome in a repetitive noncoding region.

Viral genetic material inserts into a host genome, placing a promoter in a new location and turning on a gene that had previously been turned off.

Viral genetic material inserts into a host genome and causes a mutation in a promoter, turning off a gene that had previously been turned on.

d.) Which statement describes the difference between the normal neuron protein PrP^C and the pathogenic version PrP^Sc?

PrP^C is just a protein and the PrP^Sc is a protein with nucleic acid inside.

The PrP^C protein contains more beta sheets while the PrP^Sc protein contains more alpha helices.

The three-dimensional conformation is identical, but the amino acid sequence is different.

The amino acid sequence is identical, but the three-dimensional conformation is different.

1. A mutation in the gene encoding the integrase enzyme rendersthe protein non-functional. How would the affect the HIV infectioncycle?

Formation of the provirus would bestopped.

Reverse transcription would nolonger be possible.

The gp120 glycoprotein would nolonger be able to bind to the CCR5 receptor.

Cutting and assembling the capsid would be halted.

2. If the viral gene is AUGCCCAGG and the mRNA used to make theviral protein is UACGGGUCC, then the virus is a :

Negative strand RNA virus

Double stranded DNA virus

Retrovirus

Positive strand RNA virus

3. Would treating prions with enzymes that digest nucleotides bean effective neutralization method?

No, prions lack amino acids.

Yes, prion nucleic acids would besusceptible to enzymatic digestion.

No, prions lack phosphodiesterbonds and would not be subject to digestion by these types ofenzymes.

Yes, the bonds between the amino acids would be hydrolyzed.

4. Most Americans born before 1970 have a permanent scar ontheir shoulders from the smallpox vaccine. Why don't youngerAmericans have one?

Smallpox has been eradicated by aworldwide vaccination program.

Smallpox is no longer lethal.

A safer less damaging vaccine wasdeveloped in the early 1970's.

The vaccine is no longer effective due to antigenic shift.

5. What kind of pathogen would retain its ability to causeinfections after being treated with powerful proteolytic chemicalsthat would destroy all proteinaceous material?

A viroid

6. Select all of the false statements concerning AIDS.

AIDS kills the patient.

Patients die as a result ofopportunistic infections.

AIDS shuts down the immunesystem.

HIV therapy (HAART) can clear thevirus from the bloodstream.

HIV therapy (HAART) can clear the virus from the patient'sbody.

7. Why do viruses only infect specific types of cells?

Viruses only attack epithelialcells, such as the cells lining the lungs.

If a host cell is weakened, viruseshave an easier time infecting it.

The initial choice is random butonce a cell type is chosen it becomes the preferred host.

The host cells have the correctsurface receptor that the virus can fit into.

Viruses infect the first cells they encounter.

8. Nucleotide analogs are a class of drugs that are highlyeffective against many types of viruses. They work by halting thereplication of viral genes. They are equally effective at stoppingthe spread of prion diseases.

True

False

9. An experimental chemical has been shown to selectively cleavephosphodiester bonds. How would the affect a virus?

Dissociate the envelope

Fragment the genome

Hydrolyze the protein coating

Alter the host binding site

Digest the capsid

10. HIV uses cell surface receptors to enter host cells. Whydoes switching from a CCR5 co-receptor to a CXCR4 co-receptoreventually shut down the immune system?

	Macrophages have CCR5co-receptors.
	T-helper cells have CXCR4co-receptors.
	T-helper cells are not involved incoordinating immune responses.
	Only macrophages are killed byHIV.

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