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Deletion of the ASFV dUTPase Gene E165R from the Genome of Highly Virulent African Swine Fever Virus Georgia 2010 Does Not Affect Virus Replication or Virulence in Domestic Pigs
African swine fever (ASF) is a frequently lethal disease of domestic and wild swine currently producing a pandemic affecting pig production in Eurasia. The causative agent, ASF virus (ASFV) is a structurally complex virus with a large genome harboring over 150 genes. One of them, E165R, encodes for...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320246/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35891389 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14071409 |
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author | Vuono, Elizabeth A. Ramirez-Medina, Elizabeth Pruitt, Sarah Rai, Ayushi Espinoza, Nallely Silva, Ediane Velazquez-Salinas, Lauro Gladue, Douglas P. Borca, Manuel V. |
author_facet | Vuono, Elizabeth A. Ramirez-Medina, Elizabeth Pruitt, Sarah Rai, Ayushi Espinoza, Nallely Silva, Ediane Velazquez-Salinas, Lauro Gladue, Douglas P. Borca, Manuel V. |
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description | African swine fever (ASF) is a frequently lethal disease of domestic and wild swine currently producing a pandemic affecting pig production in Eurasia. The causative agent, ASF virus (ASFV) is a structurally complex virus with a large genome harboring over 150 genes. One of them, E165R, encodes for a protein belonging to the dUTPase family. The fine structure of the purified protein has been recently analyzed and its dUTPase activity tested. In addition, it has been reported that a BA71 mutant virus, adapted to growth in Vero cells, lacking the E165R gene presented a drastic decreased replication in swine macrophages, its natural target cell. Herein, we report the development of a recombinant virus, ASFV-G-∆E165R, harboring the deletion of the E165R gene from the genome of the highly virulent field isolate ASFV Georgia 2010 (ASFV-G). Interestingly, ASFV-G-∆E165R replicates in primary swine macrophage cultures as efficiently as the parental virus ASFV-G. In addition, ASFV-G-∆E165R also replicates in experimentally inoculated domestic pigs with equal efficacy as ASFV-G and produced a lethal disease almost indistinguishable from that induced by the parental virus. Therefore, results presented here clearly demonstrated that E165R gene is not essential or important for ASFV replication in swine macrophages nor disease production in domestic pigs. |
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spelling | pubmed-93202462022-07-27 Deletion of the ASFV dUTPase Gene E165R from the Genome of Highly Virulent African Swine Fever Virus Georgia 2010 Does Not Affect Virus Replication or Virulence in Domestic Pigs Vuono, Elizabeth A. Ramirez-Medina, Elizabeth Pruitt, Sarah Rai, Ayushi Espinoza, Nallely Silva, Ediane Velazquez-Salinas, Lauro Gladue, Douglas P. Borca, Manuel V. Viruses Article African swine fever (ASF) is a frequently lethal disease of domestic and wild swine currently producing a pandemic affecting pig production in Eurasia. The causative agent, ASF virus (ASFV) is a structurally complex virus with a large genome harboring over 150 genes. One of them, E165R, encodes for a protein belonging to the dUTPase family. The fine structure of the purified protein has been recently analyzed and its dUTPase activity tested. In addition, it has been reported that a BA71 mutant virus, adapted to growth in Vero cells, lacking the E165R gene presented a drastic decreased replication in swine macrophages, its natural target cell. Herein, we report the development of a recombinant virus, ASFV-G-∆E165R, harboring the deletion of the E165R gene from the genome of the highly virulent field isolate ASFV Georgia 2010 (ASFV-G). Interestingly, ASFV-G-∆E165R replicates in primary swine macrophage cultures as efficiently as the parental virus ASFV-G. In addition, ASFV-G-∆E165R also replicates in experimentally inoculated domestic pigs with equal efficacy as ASFV-G and produced a lethal disease almost indistinguishable from that induced by the parental virus. Therefore, results presented here clearly demonstrated that E165R gene is not essential or important for ASFV replication in swine macrophages nor disease production in domestic pigs. MDPI 2022-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9320246/ /pubmed/35891389 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14071409 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Vuono, Elizabeth A. Ramirez-Medina, Elizabeth Pruitt, Sarah Rai, Ayushi Espinoza, Nallely Silva, Ediane Velazquez-Salinas, Lauro Gladue, Douglas P. Borca, Manuel V. Deletion of the ASFV dUTPase Gene E165R from the Genome of Highly Virulent African Swine Fever Virus Georgia 2010 Does Not Affect Virus Replication or Virulence in Domestic Pigs |
title | Deletion of the ASFV dUTPase Gene E165R from the Genome of Highly Virulent African Swine Fever Virus Georgia 2010 Does Not Affect Virus Replication or Virulence in Domestic Pigs |
title_full | Deletion of the ASFV dUTPase Gene E165R from the Genome of Highly Virulent African Swine Fever Virus Georgia 2010 Does Not Affect Virus Replication or Virulence in Domestic Pigs |
title_fullStr | Deletion of the ASFV dUTPase Gene E165R from the Genome of Highly Virulent African Swine Fever Virus Georgia 2010 Does Not Affect Virus Replication or Virulence in Domestic Pigs |
title_full_unstemmed | Deletion of the ASFV dUTPase Gene E165R from the Genome of Highly Virulent African Swine Fever Virus Georgia 2010 Does Not Affect Virus Replication or Virulence in Domestic Pigs |
title_short | Deletion of the ASFV dUTPase Gene E165R from the Genome of Highly Virulent African Swine Fever Virus Georgia 2010 Does Not Affect Virus Replication or Virulence in Domestic Pigs |
title_sort | deletion of the asfv dutpase gene e165r from the genome of highly virulent african swine fever virus georgia 2010 does not affect virus replication or virulence in domestic pigs |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320246/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35891389 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14071409 |
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