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Detection of borna disease virus (bdv) antibodies and bdv rna in psychiatric patients: Evidence for high sequence conservation of human blood-derived bdv rna

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authors

  • Sauder, C.
  • Muller, A.
  • Cubitt, B.
  • Mayer, J.
  • Steinmetz, J.
  • Trabert, W.
  • Ziegler, B.
  • Wanke, K.
  • MuellerLantzsch, N.
  • de la Torre, Juan
  • Grasser, F. A.

publication date

  • November 1996

journal

  • Journal of Virology  Journal

abstract

  • In several vertebrate species, Borna disease virus (BDV), the prototype of a new group of animal viruses, causes central nervous system disease accompanied by diverse behavioral abnormalities. Seroepidemiological data indicate that BDV may contribute to the pathophysiology of certain human mental disorders. This hypothesis is further supported by the detection of both BDV antigens and BDV RNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with psychiatric disorders and the isolation of BDV from such PBMCs. Here we describe serological and molecular epidemiological studies on psychiatric patients and healthy individuals from the area of Homburg, Germany. Using a novel Western blot (immunoblot) assay, we found a BDV seroprevalence of 9.6% among 416 neuropsychiatric patients, which is significantly higher than the 1.4% found among 203 healthy control individuals. Human sera displayed a prominent immunoreactivity against the virus nucleoprotein, the p40 antigen. Reverse transcriptase-mediated PCR analysis of RNA extracted from PBMCs of a subset of 26 of the neuropsychiatric patients revealed that 50% were BDV RNA positive. Three of the 13 BDV RNA-positive patients also had BDV-positive serology, whereas one patient with serum antibodies to BDV p40 antigen did not harbor detectable BDV RNA in PBMCs. BDV p40 and p24 sequences derived from human PBMCs exhibited both a high degree of inter- and intrapatient conservation and a close genetic relationship to animal-derived BDV sequences.

subject areas

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Antigens, Viral
  • Base Sequence
  • Blotting, Western
  • Borna Disease
  • Borna disease virus
  • Cell Line
  • Conserved Sequence
  • DNA, Viral
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leukocytes, Mononuclear
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders
  • Middle Aged
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • RNA, Viral
  • Rabbits
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Spodoptera
  • Viral Proteins
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC190841

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-538X

PubMed ID

  • 8892892
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 7713

end page

  • 7724

volume

  • 70

issue

  • 11

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