Characterization of Marek's Disease Virus Serotype 1 (MDV-1) Deletion Mutants That Lack UL46 to UL49 Genes: MDV-1 UL49, Encoding VP22, Is Indispensable for Virus Growth
AUTOR(ES)
Dorange, Fabien
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Experiments were conducted to investigate the roles of Marek's disease virus serotype 1 (MDV-1) major tegument proteins VP11/12, VP13/14, VP16, and VP22 in viral growth in cultured cells. Based on a bacterial artificial chromosome clone of MDV-1 (BAC20), mutant viruses were constructed in which the MDV-1 homologs of UL46, UL47, UL48, or UL49 were deleted alone and in various combinations. It could be demonstrated that the UL46, UL47, and UL48 genes are dispensable for MDV-1 growth in chicken embryonic skin and quail muscle QM7 cells, although the generated virus mutants exhibited reduced plaque sizes in all cell types investigated. In contrast, a UL49-negative MDV-1 (20Δ49) and a UL48-UL49 (20Δ48-49) doubly negative mutant were not able to produce MDV-1-specific plaques on either cell type. It was confirmed that this growth restriction is dependent on the absence of VP22 expression, because growth of these mutant viruses could be partially restored on cells that were cotransfected with a UL49 expression plasmid. In addition, we were able to demonstrate that cell-to-cell spread of MDV-1 conferred by VP22 is dependent on the expression of amino acids 37 to 187 of MDV-1 VP22, because expression plasmids containing MDV-1 UL49 mutant genes with deletions of amino acids 1 to 37 or 188 to 250 were still able to restore partial growth of the 20Δ49 and 20Δ48-49 viruses. These results demonstrate for the first time that an alphaherpesvirus UL49-homologous gene is essential for virus growth in cell culture.
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