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Theiler's Virus Infection of Perforin-deficient Mice

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Journal J Virol
Date 1998 Apr 29
PMID 9557751
Citations 31
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Theiler's virus, a murine picornavirus, infects the central nervous systems of C57BL/6 mice and is cleared after approximately 10 days by a process which requires CD8+ cytotoxic T cells. We used perforin-deficient C57BL/6 mice to test the role of this protein in viral clearance. Perforin-deficient mice died from viral encephalomyelitis between days 12 and 18 postinoculation. They had high levels of viral RNA in their central nervous systems until the time of death. In contrast, viral RNA had disappeared by day 11 postinoculation in wild-type C57BL/6 mice. Cytotoxic T cells can kill infected cells by two main mechanisms: the secretion of the pore-forming protein perforin or the interaction of the Fas ligand with the apoptosis-inducing Fas molecule on the target cell. Our results demonstrate that clearance of Theiler's virus from the central nervous system in C57BL/6 mice is perforin dependent.

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