Alteration of amino acids in VP2 of very virulent infectious bursal disease virus results in tissue culture adaptation and attenuation in chickens

Intervet International BV, PO Box 31, 5830 AA Boxmeer, The Netherlands 1 Institute of Molecular Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institutes, Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals, D-17498 Insel Riems, Germany 2 Author for correspondence: Egbert Mundt. Fax +49 38351 7151. e-mail Egbert.Mun...

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Published in:	Journal of general virology Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 121 - 129
Main Authors:	van Loon, A. A. W. M, de Haas, N, Zeyda, I, Mundt, E
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Soc General Microbiol 01-01-2002
Subjects:	Adaptation, Physiological - genetics Adaptation, Physiological - physiology Amino Acid Substitution Animals Antigens, Viral - analysis Base Sequence Birnaviridae Infections - immunology Birnaviridae Infections - virology Chickens Culture Techniques DNA, Viral Infectious bursal disease virus Infectious bursal disease virus - genetics Infectious bursal disease virus - immunology Infectious bursal disease virus - physiology Molecular Sequence Data Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid Viral Structural Proteins - genetics Viral Structural Proteins - physiology Virulence Virus Replication VP2 protein
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Summary:	Intervet International BV, PO Box 31, 5830 AA Boxmeer, The Netherlands 1 Institute of Molecular Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institutes, Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals, D-17498 Insel Riems, Germany 2 Author for correspondence: Egbert Mundt. Fax +49 38351 7151. e-mail Egbert.Mundt{at}rie.bfav.de Reverse genetics technology offers the possibility to study the influence of particular amino acids of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) on adaptation to tissue culture. Genomic segments A and B of the very virulent (vv) IBDV field strain UK661 were completely cloned and sequenced, and the strain was rescued from full-length cDNA copies of both segments (UK661rev). Using site-directed mutagenesis, alteration of a single amino acid in the segment A-encoded VP2 (A284T) resulted in a limited capacity of UK661 to replicate in tissue culture. Additional alteration of a second amino acid (Q253H) increased replication efficiency in tissue culture. The second mutant (UK661-Q253H-A284T) was used to infect chickens and results were compared with UK661 and UK661rev. Whereas UK661 and UK661rev induced 100% morbidity and 5080% mortality, UK661-Q253H-A284T proved to be strikingly attenuated, producing neither morbidity nor mortality. Moreover, UK661-Q253H-A284T-infected animals were protected from challenge infection. Thus, alteration of two specific amino acids in the VP2 region of IBDV resulted in tissue culture adaptation and attenuation in chickens of vvIBDV. The data demonstrate that VP2 plays a decisive role in pathogenicity of IBDV.
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ISSN:	0022-1317 1465-2099
DOI:	10.1099/0022-1317-83-1-121