Dengue Virus Infection of Primary Human Smooth Muscle Cells

Jorge L. Arias-Arias Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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Francisco Vega-Aguilar Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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Eugenia Corrales-Aguilar Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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Laya Hun Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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Gilbert D. Loría Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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Rodrigo Mora-Rodríguez Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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Dengue virus (DENV) infection of humans is presently the most important arthropod-borne viral global threat, for which no suitable or reliable animal model exists. Reports addressing the effect of DENV on vascular components other than endothelial cells are lacking. Dengue virus infection of vascular smooth muscle cells, which play a physiological compensatory response to hypotension in arteries and arterioles, has not been characterized, thus precluding our understanding of the role of these vascular components in dengue pathogenesis. Therefore, we studied the permissiveness of primary human umbilical artery smooth muscle cells (HUASMC) to DENV 1–4 infection and compared with the infection in the previously reported primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and the classically used, non-transformed, and highly permissive Lilly Laboratories Cell-Monkey Kidney 2 cells. Our results show that HUASMC are susceptible and productive to infection with the four DENV serotypes, although to a lesser extent when compared with the other cell lines. This is the first report of DENV permissiveness in human smooth muscle cells, which might represent an unexplored pathophysiological contributor to the vascular collapse observed in severe human dengue infection.

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Address correspondence to Rodrigo Mora-Rodríguez, Facultad de Microbiología, Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica. E-mail: rodrigo.morarodriguez@ucr.ac.cr

Financial support: This work was supported by Universidad de Costa Rica (project VI-803-A5-025), Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (project FI-182-10), and the Florida Ice and Farm Co.

Authors’ addresses: Jorge L. Arias-Arias, Francisco Vega-Aguilar, Eugenia Corrales-Aguilar, Laya Hun, Gilbert D. Loría, and Rodrigo Mora-Rodríguez, Facultad de Microbiología, Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, San José, Costa Rica, E-mails: jorgeluis.arias@ucr.ac.cr, francisco.vega@ucr.ac.cr, eugenia.corrales@ucr.ac.cr, ruchlia.hun@ucr.ac.cr, gilbert.loria@ucr.ac.cr, and rodrigo.morarodriguez@ucr.ac.cr.

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