| Literature DB >> 20199788 |
Samy Kasem1, Mi Htay Htay Yu, Souichi Yamada, Akari Kodaira, Tomio Matsumura, Koji Tsujimura, Hanafy Madbouly, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kenji Ohya, Hideto Fukushi.
Abstract
Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) bacterial artificial chromosome clone (Ab4p BAC) was established based on neuropathogenic strain Ab4p. ORF37 encoding UL24 was replaced with a selection cassette, rpsL-neo gene, to produce an ORF37 deletion mutant, Ab4pORF37. Transfection of RK-13 cells with Ab4pORF37 genome DNA produced infectious virus, indicating that ORF37 is not essential for EHV-1 replication in cell culture. Deletion of ORF37 had no effect on the transcript expression of neighboring genes, ORF36 and ORF38, and the growth activity in MDBK cells. Ab4pDeltaORF37 lost neuropathogenicity in CBA/N1 mice as indicated by the absence of any neurological disorders and death. The growth of Ab4pDeltaORF37 in cultivated neural cells was one order of magnitude lower than that of parental and revertant viruses. These results indicated that the ORF37 is a neuropathogenicity determinant of EHV-1 in the mouse encephalitis model. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 20199788 DOI： 10.1016/j.virol.2010.02.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virology ISSN： 0042-6822 Impact factor: 3.616