病毒学
病毒
免疫系统
生物
计算生物学
计算机科学
免疫学
作者
Yidan Wang,Ying Xu,Chee Wah Tan,Longliang Qiao,Wan Ni Chia,Hongyi Zhang,Qin Huang,Zhenqiang Deng,Ziwei Wang,Xi Wang,Xu-Rui Shen,Canyu Liu,Rongjuan Pei,Yuanxiao Liu,Shuai Xue,Dan Kong,Danielle E. Anderson,Fengfeng Cai,Peng Zhou,Lin‐Fa Wang,Haifeng Ye
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-35425-9
摘要
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that viral diseases represent an enormous public health and economic threat to mankind and that individuals with compromised immune systems are at greater risk of complications and death from viral diseases. The development of broad-spectrum antivirals is an important part of pandemic preparedness. Here, we have engineer a series of designer cells which we term autonomous, intelligent, virus-inducible immune-like (ALICE) cells as sense-and-destroy antiviral system. After developing a destabilized STING-based sensor to detect viruses from seven different genera, we have used a synthetic signal transduction system to link viral detection to the expression of multiple antiviral effector molecules, including antiviral cytokines, a CRISPR-Cas9 module for viral degradation and the secretion of a neutralizing antibody. We perform a proof-of-concept study using multiple iterations of our ALICE system in vitro, followed by in vivo functionality testing in mice. We show that dual output ALICESaCas9+Ab system delivered by an AAV-vector inhibited viral infection in herpetic simplex keratitis (HSK) mouse model. Our work demonstrates that viral detection and antiviral countermeasures can be paired for intelligent sense-and-destroy applications as a flexible and innovative method against virus infection.
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