Journal article
Wild isolates of murine cytomegalovirus induce myocarditis and antibodies that cross-react with virus and cardiac myosin
Immunology, Vol.94(2), pp.263-270
1998
Abstract
The laboratory-adapted K181 strain of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) induces both acute and chronic myocarditis, associated with autoantibodies to cardiac myosin, in susceptible BALB/c mice. However, the K181 MCMV strain has been maintained in the laboratory for many years and may not resemble naturally occurring strains of MCMV in its ability to induce myocarditis. Accordingly, six different isolates of MCMV from wild Mus domesticus were compared with K181 MCMV for their ability to induce myocarditis and autoantibodies to cardiac myosin in BALB/c mice. These isolates were shown to induce acute myocarditis similar to K181 MCMV, with associated focal and diffuse myocardial inflammation. However, the levels of myocarditis induced by the wild isolates during the chronic phase of the disease (days 32-56 post-infection) were low in contrast to the K181 strain. Interestingly, 30% of wild-trapped mice showed histological evidence of myocarditis and all were sero-positive to MCMV. Sera from BALB/c mice infected with wild MCMV isolates and from wild-trapped mice contained antibodies that cross-reacted with MCMV and cardiac myosin (S2 region). The cross-reactive region of MCMV was found to be a 50 000-55 000 MW viral polypeptide. These findings suggest that molecular mimicry may be involved in the pathogenesis of autoimmune myocarditis following infection with both laboratory and wild MCMV strains.
Details
- Title
- Wild isolates of murine cytomegalovirus induce myocarditis and antibodies that cross-react with virus and cardiac myosin
- Authors/Creators
- D. Fairweather (Author/Creator)C.M. Lawson (Author/Creator)A.J. Chapman (Author/Creator)C.M.S. Brown (Author/Creator)T.W.M. Booth (Author/Creator)J.M. Papadimitriou (Author/Creator)G.R. Shellam (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Immunology, Vol.94(2), pp.263-270
- Publisher
- Wilely-Blackwell
- Identifiers
- 991005544847907891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 1 Clinical & Life Sciences
- 1.37 Cardiology - General
- 1.37.1920 Myocarditis
- Web Of Science research areas
- Immunology
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- Immunology