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Jamestown Canyon virus detection in human tissue specimens
  1. Huachuan Zheng1,
  2. Yoshihiro Murai2,
  3. Mei Hong2,
  4. Yuko Nakanishi2,
  5. Kazuhiro Nomoto2,
  6. Shinji Masuda3,
  7. Koichi Tsuneyama2,
  8. Yasuo Takano2
  1. 1Division of Pathology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
  2. 2Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
  3. 3Division of Pathology, Kouserein Takaoka Hospital, Takaoka, Japan
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Yasuo Takano
 Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Sugitani 2630, Toyama 930-0194, Japan; ytakano{at}ms.toyama-mpu.ac.jp

Abstract

Aim: To clarify the advantages and disadvantages of different detection methods for Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) in human tissue specimens.

Methods: Specimens of lung and gastric carcinomas, and normal lung tissue, gastric mucosa, and tonsil were examined for T-antigen, VP and agnoprotein of JCV by nested PCR, Southern blotting and sequencing. JCV load targeting T-antigen was evaluated by real-time PCR, and JCV existence morphologically by immunohistochemistry, in-situ hybridisation (ISH) and PCR. For these experiments, the JCI cell line (JCV cultured neuroblastoma cell line) was employed as positive control.

Results: In lung and gastric carcinomas, T-antigen, VP and agnoprotein of JCV could be detected by nested PCR whose products were confirmed by Southern blots and sequencing. With real-time PCR, frozen samples of gastric carcinomas gave better detection of JCV than their corresponding paraffin-embedded tissues (p<0.05). The positive rate of JCV was high in lung carcinoma, compared with normal lung tissue (p<0.05). It was the same for JCV copies in gastric carcinoma (p<0.05). Only the positive control exhibited JCV in the nucleus by ISH and immunohistochemistry. In-situ PCR showed that JCV genomic DNA was located in the nucleus of the carcinoma cell, some alveolar epithelial cells, and tonsil lymphocytes. In ISH and PCR, NBT/BCIP colouring was stronger than Fuchsin.

Conclusions: Nested PCR whose amplicons should be confirmed by Southern blot and sequencing was a comparatively sensitive approach to detect JCV genomic DNA in human non-neural tissues. Real-time PCR might be employed to quantify copy number of JCV. In-situ PCR was a good method to observe the JCV location in cells, given appropriate modulation of amplification cycles. Combinations of various approaches will be adopted to explore the oncogenic roles of JCV in malignancies.

  • ISH, in-situ hybridisation
  • JCV, Jamestown Canyon virus
  • PML, progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy
  • JC virus
  • detection
  • methods
  • tissue specimen

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Footnotes

  • Published Online First 19 January 2007

  • Funding: This work was partially supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 14770072 and 15922084, the 21st Century COE Program in Japan, Japanese Smoking Research Society and National Natural Science Foundation of China (30600286).

  • Competing interests: None.

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