Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Discordant congenital Zika syndrome twins show differential in vitro viral susceptibility of neural progenitor cells

  • Luiz Carlos Caires-Júnior,
  • Ernesto Goulart,
  • Uirá Souto Melo,
  • Bruno Henrique Silva Araujo,
  • Lucas Alvizi,
  • Alessandra Soares-Schanoski,
  • Danyllo Felipe de Oliveira,
  • Gerson Shigeru Kobayashi,
  • Karina Griesi-Oliveira,
  • Camila Manso Musso,
  • Murilo Sena Amaral,
  • Lucas Ferreira daSilva,
  • Renato Mancini Astray,
  • Sandra Fernanda Suárez-Patiño,
  • Daniella Cristina Ventini,
  • Sérgio Gomes da Silva,
  • Guilherme Lopes Yamamoto,
  • Suzana Ezquina,
  • Michel Satya Naslavsky,
  • Kayque Alves Telles-Silva,
  • Karina Weinmann,
  • Vanessa van der Linden,
  • Helio van der Linden,
  • João Ricardo Mendes de Oliveira,
  • Nivia Maria Rodrigues Arrais,
  • Adriana Melo,
  • Thalita Figueiredo,
  • Silvana Santos,
  • Joanna Goes Castro Meira,
  • Saulo Duarte Passos,
  • Roque Pacheco de Almeida,
  • Ana Jovina Barreto Bispo,
  • Esper Abrão Cavalheiro,
  • Jorge Kalil,
  • Edécio Cunha-Neto,
  • Helder Nakaya,
  • Robert Andreata-Santos,
  • Luis Carlos de Souza Ferreira,
  • Sergio Verjovski-Almeida,
  • Paulo Lee Ho,
  • Maria Rita Passos-Bueno,
  • Mayana Zatz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02790-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Zika virus (ZIKV) infection can cause congenital Zika syndrome (CZS), but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, the authors generate neural progenitor cells from dizygotic twins with a discordant phenotype regarding CZS and study their response to ZIKV infection.