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- Title
Development and Characterization of a cDNA-Launch Recombinant Simian Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Expressing Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein: ORF 2b' Is Not Required for In Vitro Virus Replication.
- Authors
Cai, Yingyun; Yu, Shuiqing; Fang, Ying; Bollinger, Laura; Li, Yanhua; Lauck, Michael; Postnikova, Elena N.; Mazur, Steven; Johnson, Reed F.; Finch, Courtney L.; Radoshitzky, Sheli R.; Palacios, Gustavo; Friedrich, Thomas C.; Goldberg, Tony L.; O'Connor, David H.; Jahrling, Peter B.; Kuhn, Jens H.; Garcia-Blanco, Mariano Agustin; Sessions, October; Ooi, Eng Eong
- Abstract
Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV) causes acute, lethal disease in macaques. We developed a single-plasmid cDNA-launch infectious clone of SHFV (rSHFV) and modified the clone to rescue an enhanced green fluorescent protein-expressing rSHFV-eGFP that can be used for rapid and quantitative detection of infection. SHFV has a narrow cell tropism in vitro, with only the grivet MA-104 cell line and a few other grivet cell lines being susceptible to virion entry and permissive to infection. Using rSHFV-eGFP, we demonstrate that one cricetid rodent cell line and three ape cell lines also fully support SHFV replication, whereas 55 human cell lines, 11 bat cell lines, and three rodent cells do not. Interestingly, some human and other mammalian cell lines apparently resistant to SHFV infection are permissive after transfection with the rSHFV-eGFP cDNA-launch plasmid. To further demonstrate the investigative potential of the infectious clone system, we introduced stop codons into eight viral open reading frames (ORFs). This approach suggested that at least one ORF, ORF 2b', is dispensable for SHFV in vitro replication. Our proof-of-principle experiments indicated that rSHFV-eGFP is a useful tool for illuminating the understudied molecular biology of SHFV.
- Subjects
GREEN fluorescent protein; HEMORRHAGIC fever; VIRAL replication; STOP codons; CELL lines; ANTISENSE DNA; CERCOPITHECUS aethiops
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 4, p632
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/v13040632