2018
Extreme heterogeneity of influenza virus infection in single cells
Abstract: Viral infection can dramatically alter a cell’s transcriptome. However, these changes have mostly been studied by bulk measurements on many cells. Here we use single-cell mRNA sequencing to examine the transcriptional consequences of influenza virus infection. We find extremely wide cell-to-cell variation in the productivity of viral transcription – viral transcripts comprise less than a percent of total mRNA in many infected cells, but a few cells derive over half their mRNA from virus. Some infected cells fa…
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“…By contrast, influenza infection on its own resulted in up-regulation of a small set of 7 genes (>2-fold, Fig 6F) including only a few interferon-stimulated genes. This observation is consistent with recent work showing that activation of immune pathways by influenza virus is rare at the single cell level during infections with viruses that have relatively few defective particles [63].…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 93%
“…By contrast, influenza infection on its own resulted in up-regulation of a small set of 7 genes (>2-fold, Fig 6F) including only a few interferon-stimulated genes. This observation is consistent with recent work showing that activation of immune pathways by influenza virus is rare at the single cell level during infections with viruses that have relatively few defective particles [63].…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 93%
“…The normalized and log 10 transformed counts of viral transcripts per cell were then compared across conditions. We found that the amount of detected GFHK99 viral mRNA varies widely between individual DF-1 cells, which is consistent with previous observations 38–40 . In contrast, GFHK99 viral mRNA levels are uniformly low in MDCK cells, especially at the lower MOIs tested ( Figure 6A , left facet).…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 93%
“…4B, cells infected with a high MOI contained more viral UMIs/cell that those infected with a low MOI, supporting the hypothesis that multiple infections per cell result in increased level of viral proteins. Interestingly, and in accordance with previous reports (43)(44)(45), we found great heterogeneity in the numbers of viral transcripts across the cells in infected cultures for both MOIs.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 93%
