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Volume 72,
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1991
Volume 72, Issue 11, 1991
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Structural analysis of unstable intermediate and stable forms of recombinant fowlpox virus
More LessThe stability and structure of the products of recombination in a fowlpox virus (FPV) system using the thymidine kinase (TK) gene as the insertion site were examined. A 4.6 kb chimeric DNA fragment from the pUV1 expression vector, containing the bacterial lacZ gene and the vaccinia virus P7.5 promoter, was ligated into the XbaI site of the FPV TK gene. The resulting vector, pFTKlacZb, was transfected into chicken embryo fibroblast cultures infected with FPV at an m.o.i. of 0.1. Recombinants were screened for the expression of β-galactosidase. Five recombinants were isolated and plaque-purified to 80 to 90% for expression of β-glucosidase. Serial cell culture passage of the recombinants led to the gradual reappearance of the non-recombinant parental phenotype. Southern hybridization analysis of EcoRI fragments from all five recombinants indicated that a single cross-over homologous recombination had occurred between either the 5′ or the 3′ end fragments of the TK gene, generating unstable intermediate recombinants incorporating the entire pFTKlacZb vector. Secondary intermolecular or intramolecular recombination of intergenic repetitive sequences within the intermediate recombinants appears to have resulted in frequent regeneration of the parental genotype and an infrequent generation of more stable recombinants. A method was developed to select stable recombinants by passage of the intermediate recombinants in chicken embryo fibroblast cultures treated with 5-bromo-2′-deoxyuridine.
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Prostaglandin A inhibits replication of human immunodeficiency virus during acute infection
More LessAn antiviral effect of prostaglandins (PGs) of the A series on the replication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been determined. In the T cell line C8166 under single growth cycle conditions, PGA1 reduced the number of infectious progeny 1000-fold in the absence of cytotoxicity. Thus, inhibition of HIV replication by PGA1 represents a true antiviral phenomenon. The number and size of virus-induced syncytia, and the amount of viral antigen were also drastically reduced. The effect was specific for PGAs because PGA2 was also inhibitory, whereas PGB1, PGE1 and PGE2 were inactive. Virus adsorption and penetration do not appear to be targets of antiviral action because PGA1 substantially reduced virus replication, even when added 5 h post-infection. PGA1 did not inhibit viral reverse transcriptase, as determined by in vitro assays, suggesting that its antiviral action is not the consequence of a direct inhibitory effect on this enzyme. PGA1 also inhibited the replication of HIV-1 in CEM × 174 cells, but with less potency. Previously, intravenous infusion of PGA1 into human volunteers has shown no significant deleterious side-effects and thus these observations suggest that PGAs might have potential as antiviral agents in humans.
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Comparison of group B rotavirus genes 9 and 11
More LessGroup B rotaviruses (GBRs) were recognized recently as causative agents of gastroenteritis. Investigations into the relatedness of various heterologous GBR strains have been hindered by the difficulty of growing these viruses in cell culture. Viral RNA extracted from experimentally infected rats was used to prepare cDNA clones. From these, the nucleotide sequences of genes 9 and 11 of the IDIR strain of GBR were determined and compared with the corresponding sequences of the human ADRV strain of GBR. IDIR gene 11 is 643 bp in length with a single open reading frame (ORF) encoding 174 amino acids; IDIR gene 9 is 804 bp in length with a single ORF encoding 246 amino acids. Comparison of the IDIR sequences with those of ADRV showed that nucleotide sequence similarity was 60.6% and 71.9% for genes 9 and 11, respectively. The deduced amino acid sequence similarity was 51.2% for the gene 9 and 66.5% for the gene 11 product. This sequence diversity indicates that GBRs are more distantly related than strains of group A rotavirus.
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cDNA clones of Japanese hepatitis C virus genomes derived from a single patient show sequence heterogeneity
Twelve cDNA clones of Japanese hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been isolated from liver tissue of a single non-A, non-B hepatitis patient. These clones represented the non-structural domains of HCV. The degree of substitution in the nucleotide sequences and deduced amino acid sequences between these clones was 9.5 and 7.7%, respectively. This high level of substitution suggested that repeated infections of different HCVs may have occurred in the patient.
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Recombinant baculoviruses expressing yellow fever virus E and NS1 proteins elicit protective immunity in mice
More LessRecently, we showed that yellow fever virus (YFV) E and NS1 proteins in Spodoptera frugiperda cells infected with a recombinant baculovirus are similar, if not identical to those produced during YFV infection. To study the role of E and NS1 in the induction of protective immunity against fatal YFV challenge, these viral antigens were expressed either alone or in tandem via recombinant baculoviruses Ac-E.NS1, Ac-E1 and Ac-NS1. Swiss mice were immunized with lysates of insect cells infected with the recombinant baculoviruses. Solid protection against lethal YFV encephalitis was achieved after immunization with cell lysates containing the E protein with or without the NS1 protein. Mice inoculated with recombinant protein NS1 alone were not significantly protected but showed an increased survival time. Recombinant E protein expressed alone or in tandem with NS1 elicited a low but significant level of neutralizing antibodies. Although protein NS1 synthesized by recombinant baculovirus expressing E plus NS1 was more immunogenic than that expressed alone, neither strategy induced NS1-specific antibodies with complement-mediated cytolytic activity.
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Monoclonal antibodies differentiate between the haemagglutinating and the receptor-destroying activities of bovine coronavirus
More LessA relatively simple and sensitive method is described which enables the effect of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) on the receptor-destroying enzyme (RDE) and the haemagglutination (HA) activity of bovine coronavirus (BCV) to be analysed in one assay. A lysate of HRT-18 cells infected with the L9 strain of BCV was found to have a higher RDE:HA ratio than purified virus. At 4 °C the lysate induced an HA pattern which completely disappeared upon raising of the temperature to 37 °C. This L9-infected cell lysate was used to determine the HA inhibition (HAI) titres of MAbs directed against the surface glycoproteins S and HE of BCV. Thereafter, the test plates were incubated at 37 °C to enable the ability of the MAbs to prevent elution of virus from BCV-erythrocyte complexes to be assessed. No inhibition of RDE was detectable with MAbs against glycoprotein S, which had HAI titres ranging from 1:16 to 1:128. On the other hand, MAbs directed against glycoprotein HE had similar HAI titres, but they inhibited elution of 8 HA units of BCV at titres of up to 1:65000.
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Comparison of the 5′ and 3′ untranslated genomic regions of virulent and attenuated foot-and-mouth disease viruses (strains O1 Campos and C3 Resende)
More LessThe complete 5′ and 3′ non-coding regions of two attenuated South American foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) vaccine strains, O1C-O/E and C3R-O/E, and their corresponding virulent parental strains, O1 Campos and C3 Resende, have been cloned from polymerase chain reaction-amplified primary cDNA. Differences observed in the derived nucleotide sequences between attenuated and virulent viruses seem not to affect regulatory signal structures, supporting the theory that genetic variations, primarily in the 3′ halves of the viral genomes, contribute to the attenuation phenotype of the vaccine strains. In addition, this is the first report on the complete sequence of the 5′ untranslated region of a C-type aphthovirus. Approximately 10% of the nucleotides differ from the corresponding known sequences of serotypes A or O.
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Protective effects of monoclonal antibodies against lethal canine distemper virus infection in mice
Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against the haemagglutinin (H), fusion protein (F) and nucleoprotein of canine distemper virus (CDV) were examined for their ability to protect mice against lethal CDV infection. One MAb against H and two of six MAbs against F protected mice, the protective effect of the anti-H MAb being stronger than that of the anti-F MAbs. The anti-H MAb showed virus neutralizing activity, but the two anti-F MAbs, which recognized the same epitope, did not. Protection by the anti-F MAbs correlated with cell fusion inhibition, but not with complement-dependent neutralization, complement-dependent cytolysis or antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity. These results suggest that neutralization by antibody against H and cell fusion inhibition by antibody against F play important roles in the protective mechanism against CDV infection.
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Acquisition of tomato yellow leaf curl virus by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci
More LessTomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) genomic DNA can be detected by Southern blot analysis in nucleic acid extracted from a single whitefly. Acquisition of TYLCV by individual whiteflies in relation to the length of the access period, the virus concentration in, and the developmental stage of plant tissues was studied. The frequency of TYLCV detection increased with the length of the access period; DNA was detected in 15% of whiteflies tested after a period of access to infected tissue of 30 min, regardless of whether it had a high or a low virus content (5 ng or 0.05 ng TYLCV DNA/µg plant chromosomal DNA), and in all insects tested after an 8 h period of access to all the plants. Those insects which had access to the youngest leaves of source plants, which have a high virus content, acquired detectable TYLCV DNA within 2 h. Insects which had access to a tissue for the same period acquired variable amounts of TYLCV DNA; insects feeding on plants with a low virus concentration acquired amounts of viral DNA comparable to those acquired by insects feeding on plants containing a 100-fold greater concentration of virus. Viruliferous insects retained TYLCV DNA for at least 13 days when placed on uninfected tomato plants. In these tests, whitefly could not acquire more than 600 million virus genomes (1 ng viral DNA), suggesting the existence of factors controlling the number of virions present in an insect.
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Tubular structures involved in movement of cowpea mosaic virus are also formed in infected cowpea protoplasts
More LessIn cowpea plant cells infected with cowpea mosaic virus, tubular structures containing virus particles are formed in the plasmodesmata between adjacent cells; these structures are supposedly involved in cell-to-cell spread of the virus. Here we show that similar tubular structures are also formed in cowpea protoplasts, from which the cell wall and plasmodesmata are absent. Between 12 and 21 h post-inoculation, tubule formation starts in the periphery of the protoplast at the level of the plasma membrane. Upon assembly, the virus-containing tubule is enveloped by the plasma membrane and extends into the culture medium. This suggests that the tubule has functional polarity and makes it likely that a tubule ‘grows’ into a neighbouring cell in vivo. On average, 75% of infected protoplasts were shown to possess tubular structures extending from their surface. The tubule wall was 3 to 4 nm thick and they were up to 20 µm in length, as shown by fluorescent light microscopy and negative staining electron microscopy. By analogy to infected plant cells, both the viral 58K/48K movement and capsid proteins were located in these tubules, as determined by immunofluorescent staining and immunogold labelling using specific antisera against these proteins. These results demonstrate that the formation of tubules is not necessarily dependent on the presence of plasmodesmata or the cell wall, and that they are composed, at least in part, of virus-encoded components.
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The complete nucleotide sequence of pea seed-borne mosaic virus RNA
More LessThe complete nucleotide sequence of the RNA genome of pea seed-borne mosaic virus (PSbMV) was determined from cloned cDNA and by direct sequencing of viral RNA. The PSbMV genomic sequence was determined to be 9924 nucleotides in length excluding the poly(A) tract. The RNA contained an open reading frame (ORF) of 9618 nucleotides with the potential to encode a polyprotein with a calculated M r of 364000 (364K). The ORF was flanked by a 5′ untranslated leader sequence of 143 nucleotides and a 3′ untranslated region of 163 nucleotides. A comparison of the PSbMV polyprotein with the polyproteins of the potyviruses tobacco etch virus (TEV), tobacco vein mottling virus (TVMV), plum pox virus (PPV) and potato virus Y (PVY) showed that PSbMV had a similar genome organization. The polyproteins had a high level of amino acid identity except in the N-terminal region, which varied in both sequence and length. Putative proteolytic cleavage sites were identified in the polyprotein of PSbMV by comparison with those identified for other potyviruses. The cleavage site between the 6K protein and the 49K proteinase is proposed to occur at the C-terminal side of glutamic acid and not at the C-terminal side of glutamine as in other potyviruses. In addition to the five proteolytic cleavage sites for the 49K proteinase identified previously, a sixth putative cleavage site was identified internally in the 49K proteinase of PSbMV, as well as in the 49K proteinases of TEV, TVMV, PPV, PVY and soybean mosaic virus. Cleavage at this site in the 49K proteinases of TEV, TVMV and PPV would result in an N-terminal protein of 22K to 24K, which is similar in size to the size determined for their VPgs.
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The location of the 5′ end of the potato leafroll luteovirus subgenomic coat protein mRNA
More LessNorthern blot analysis of nucleic acid from potato plant tissues and tobacco protoplasts infected with a Scottish isolate of potato leafroll luteovirus (PLRV) detected the 6 kb genomic RNA and one subgenomic RNA species of about 2.7 kb; RNA extracted from virus particles contained only the genomic species. Blotting with small defined probes suggested that the location of the 5′ end of the subgenomic RNA was between 2380 and 2510 nucleotides from the 3′ end of the PLRV genome (between 3370 and 3500 nucleotides from the 5′ end of PLRV Dutch isolate RNA). When RNA extracted from PLRV-infected or mock-inoculated protoplasts was used as the template for primer extension using primers complementary to the sequence at, or upstream of, the initiation codon of the coat protein gene, a single major infection-specific product was detected. A primer complementary to the sequence between 162 and 179 nucleotides upstream of the coat protein AUG yielded a product of 56 nucleotides. Thus, the subgenomic RNA has a leader sequence of 212 nucleotides, is 2505 nucleotides in length and starts at a position equivalent to 3376 nucleotides from the 5′ end of the PLRV-Dutch genome, 11 nucleotides upstream of the termination codon of the putative polymerase gene. The nucleotide sequence immediately downstream of this position closely resembles that of the 5′ end of the PLRV genomic RNA.
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Infectious in vitro RNA transcripts derived from cloned cDNA of the cucurbit potyvirus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus
More LessA full-length cDNA clone of the RNA genome of the cucurbit potyvirus zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) was constructed downstream from a bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase promoter. A single extra guanosine residue not present in ZYMV RNA was added to the 5′ and 3′ ends. Capped (m7GpppG) ZYMV RNA transcripts were infectious in 10 of 91 Cucurbita pepo test plants; uncapped RNA transcripts were not infectious. The appearance of symptoms in plants inoculated with the infectious transcript was delayed for more than a week compared to plants inoculated with native viral RNA. The progeny virions recovered from infected plants had the same biological properties (aphid non-transmissibility and typical symptoms) as the parental virus. The progeny virions also reacted positively with ZYMV antiserum and ZYMV-specific probes by dot blot hybridization. The authenticity of the progeny virus was verified by identifying a specific molecular marker (C substituted for T in the 3′ non-coding region) using nucleotide sequence analysis.
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Expression of the tobacco mosaic virus movement protein using a baculovirus expression vector
More LessA cDNA clone of the tobacco mosaic virus 30K movement protein (MP) gene was constructed and introduced into an Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis baculovirus expression vector. Infection of Spodoptera frugiperda cells with the vector resulted in the synthesis of low levels of MP, which was detected by anti-MP serum as two closely related species of M r approximately 34K and a third species of 32K. The authenticity of the recombinant MP was confirmed by comparison of the protein, on the basis of migration during SDS-PAGE, with authentic MP from several sources. It appeared that the recombinant MP was not modified by N-linked glycosylation, but was phosphorylated. The recombinant MP was produced in both a phosphorylated and an unphosphorylated state and the former species was shown to comigrate with plant-expressed MP during SDS-PAGE.
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Nucleotide sequences of genome segments S8, encoding a capsid protein, and S10, encoding a 36K protein, of rice gall dwarf virus
More LessThe nucleotide sequences of DNAs complementary to the eighth (S8) and the tenth (S10) largest of the 12 genome segments of rice gall dwarf virus (RGDV) were determined. The S8 and S10 segments consist of 1578 and 1198 nucleotides, each with a single open reading frame extending for 1278 nucleotides from nucleotide 21, and 960 nucleotides from nucleotide 22, respectively. S8 encodes a polypeptide of 426 amino acids with an M r of 47419. The amino acid sequences of several peptide fragments of the major outer capsid protein reported as 45K were contained in the predicted polypeptide. This protein, renamed the 47K protein, showed high homology with the outer capsid proteins of rice dwarf virus (RDV) and wound tumour virus (WTV); there was 56, 52 and 48% amino acid sequence identity between RGDV and WTV, RGDV and RDV, and RDV and WTV, respectively. S10 had the coding potential for a polypeptide of 320 amino acids with an M r of 36095 (36K protein), which exhibits 32% and 35% amino acid sequence identity with the predicted translation product of RDV S9 and the P9 capsid protein encoded by WTV S11, respectively. The conserved terminal sequences 5′ GG…GAU 3′ which are present in all genome segments of WTV and RDV so far analysed, and in S9 of RGDV, were also found in RGDV S8 and S10. This conserved sequence together with the segment-specific inverted repeats found in the terminal sequence of RGDV S8 and S10 are thus characteristic structures common to all three phytoreoviruses. The nucleotide sequence of the region surrounding the inverted repeats was more similar between RGDV and WTV than between RGDV and RDV.
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Use of the asymmetric polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing to determine genetic variability of bean golden mosaic geminivirus in the Dominican Republic
More LessA combination of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), asymmetric PCR (A-PCR) and DNA sequencing was used to determine the nucleotide sequence of a hypervariable region of the bipartite genome of bean golden mosaic geminivirus (BGMV). This region, which was part of the intergenic region of the DNA-B component, was amplified using primers designed from the nucleotide sequence of a DNA-B component clone (pDRB1) of an isolate of BGMV from the Dominican Republic (BGMV-DR). pDRB1 is infectious on beans when coinoculated with the DNA-A component of BGMV-DR (pDRA1), and typical bean golden mosaic symptoms are observed on infected plants. Bean leaf tissue infected with BGMV was collected at five separate field locations in the Dominican Republic and the hypervariable region was amplified by PCR, ssDNA was produced using A-PCR, and partial nucleotide sequences were determined. The sequences of the hypervariable region from the field-collected samples ranged from 95% (one sample) to 98% (four samples) identical to the sequence of pDRB1. This contrasts with sequence identities of 86, 75 and 46% between the pDRB1 hypervariable region and the hypervariable regions of BGMV isolates from Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Brazil respectively, and 42% with bean dwarf mosaic geminivirus. These results indicate that Dominican Republic isolates of BGMV are very similar and should be considered isolates of the same virus (BGMV-DR), and that the infectious clones of BGMV-DR are representative of BGMV isolates in the Dominican Republic. The procedures described for DNA extraction from leaf tissue and for production of high quality ssDNA using PCR and A-PCR are rapid and efficient and could be applied to studies of variability and epidemiology of other viruses.
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Analysis of the potential promoter sequences of African cassava mosaic virus by transient expression of the β-glucuronidase gene
More LessDNA fragments from promoter regions of the geminivirus, African cassava mosaic virus, were cloned into pG1, a vector based on pUC18, producing transcriptional fusions with the β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene and nopaline synthase termination sequence. The activity of each promoter construct was assessed by analysing the transient expression of GUS in Nicotiana clevelandii protoplasts. The results demonstrated that constructs containing the common region of DNA A showed much stronger promoter activity in the complementary sense than in the viral sense. These results were supported by the analysis of promoter activity in transgenic N. benthamiana plants. In comparison, in protoplasts a region upstream of the AC2 open reading frame was shown to have moderate promoter activity. Unlike DNA A, the complementary sense DNA B promoter constructs had weak activity; the viral sense DNA B promoter constructs appeared to be regulated by host factors. The implications of these results for the regulation of early and late genes are discussed.
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Detection of the movement protein of red clover necrotic mosaic virus in a cell wall fraction from infected Nicotiana clevelandii plants
More LessThe movement protein of red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV) was expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion with a maltose-binding protein using the vector pMAL-cRI and used to produce an antiserum. The RCNMV movement protein was detected in a cell wall fraction obtained from infected Nicotiana clevelandii leaf tissue by immunoblotting using the movement protein antiserum. The movement protein could be detected 6 h after inoculation and reached a maximum after 24 h. In contrast, the virus capsid protein, detected in a soluble fraction by immunoblotting using a capsid antiserum, continued to increase for 72 h after inoculation.
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