Tubulointerstitial Nephritis Due to a Mutant Polyomavirus BK Virus Strain, BKV(Cin), Causing End-Stage Renal Disease

AUTOR(ES)

Smith, R. D.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

A renal biopsy from a 36-year-old man with AIDS showed a severe tubulointerstitial nephritis with intranuclear inclusions in epithelial cells. Electron microscopy revealed the characteristic findings of a polyomavirus (PyV) infection, and immunofluorescence indicated the presence of BK virus (BKV) antigen. Inoculation of rhesus monkey kidney cell cultures both with urine and with buffy coat blood cells resulted in a cytopathic response which was subsequently confirmed to be due to BKV. Further characterization of the viral DNA from the kidney by PCR amplification and Southern blot analysis with PyV and strain-specific primers and probes indicated that the virus was closely related to the BK(Dun) strain but different in its apparent sequence arrangement. Subsequent cycle sequencing showed a dinucleotide mutation of TG→AA which substitutes hydrophilic Gln for hydrophobic Leu in a sequence homologous to an origin DNA-binding domain of simian virus 40 T antigen. It is suggested that the mutation and a coding region rearrangement of this strain of BKV designated BKV(Cin) has the potential to alter viral DNA replication and enhance pathogenicity.

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