ICAM-1 Participates in the Entry of West Nile Virus into the Central Nervous System

Author:

Dai Jianfeng1,Wang Penghua1,Bai Fengwei1,Town Terrence23,Fikrig Erol1

Affiliation:

1. Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine

2. Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

3. Department of Biomedical Sciences and Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90048

Abstract

ABSTRACT Determining how West Nile virus crosses the blood-brain barrier is critical to understanding the pathogenesis of encephalitis. Here, we show that ICAM-1 −/− mice are more resistant than control animals to lethal West Nile encephalitis. ICAM-1 −/− mice have a lower viral load, reduced leukocyte infiltration, and diminished neuronal damage in the brain compared to control animals. This is associated with decreased blood-brain barrier leakage after viral infection. These data suggest that ICAM-1 plays an important role in West Nile virus neuroinvasion and that targeting ICAM-1 signaling may help control viral encephalitis.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology

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