A Zika virus protein expression screen in Drosophila to investigate targeted host pathways during development
Link, N.; Harnish, J. M.; Hull, B.; Gibson, S.; Dietze, M.; Mgbike, U. E.; Medina-Balcazar, S.; Shah, P. S.; Yamamoto, S.
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In the past decade, Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged as a global public health concern. While adult infections are typically mild, maternal infection can lead to adverse fetal outcomes. Understanding how ZIKV proteins disrupt development can provide insights into the molecular mechanisms of symptoms caused by this virus including microcephaly. In this study, we generated a toolkit to ectopically express Zika viral proteins in vivo in Drosophila melanogaster in a tissue-specific manner using the GAL4/UAS system. We use this toolkit to identify phenotypes and host pathways targeted by the virus. Our work identified that expression of most ZIKV proteins cause scorable phenotypes, such as overall lethality, gross morphological defects, reduced brain size, and neuronal function defects. We further use this system to identify strain-dependent phenotypes that may contribute to the increased pathogenesis associated with the more recent outbreak of ZIKV in the Americas. Our work demonstrates Drosophilas use as an efficient in vivo model to rapidly decipher how pathogens cause disease and lays the groundwork for further molecular study of ZIKV pathogenesis in flies.
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