Enteric adenovirus types F40 and 41 (EAdVs) are a leading cause of diarrhea and diarrhea-associated death in young children and have recently been proposed to cause acute hepatitis in children. Unlike other adenoviruses, EAdVs exhibit hitherto a strict tropism for gastrointestinal tissues with, to date, unknown infection mechanism and target cells. In this study, we turn to potentially limiting host factors by comparison of EAdV entry in cell lines with respiratory and intestinal origin by cellular perturbation, virus particle tracking and transmission electron microscopy. Our analyses highlight kinetic advantages in duodenal HuTu80 cell infection and reveal a larger fraction of mobile particles, faster virus uptake and infectious particle entry in intestinal cells. Moreover, EAdVs display a dependence on clathrin- and dynamin-dependent pathways in intestinal cells. Detailed knowledge of virus entry routes and host factor requirements is essential to understand pathogenesis and develop new countermeasures. Hence, this study provides novel insights into the entry mechanisms of a medically important virus with emerging tropism in a physiologically relevant cell line.Author SummaryEnteric adenoviruses have historically been difficult to grow in cell culture, which resulted in lack of knowledge of host factors and pathways required for infection of these medically relevant viruses. Previous studies in non-intestinal cell lines showed slow infection kinetics and generated comparatively low virus yields compared to other adenovirus types. We suggest duodenum derived HuTu80 cells as a superior cell line for studies to complement efforts using complex intestinal tissue models. We show that viral host cell factors required for virus entry differ between cell lines from distinct origins and demonstrate the importance of clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
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