Mutations within the 5' nontranslated region of hepatitis A virus RNA which enhance replication in BS-C-1 cells.
AUTOR(ES)
Day, S P
RESUMO
Passage of human hepatitis A virus (HAV) in cell culture results in attenuation of the virus as well as progressive increases in the efficiency of virus replication in cell culture. Because the presence of identical mutations within the 5' nontranslated regions (5'NTRs) of several independently isolated cell culture-adapted HAV variants suggests that the 5'NTR may play a role in determining this change in virus host range, we constructed chimeric infectious cDNA clones in which portions of the 5'NTR of cell culture-adapted HM175/p35 virus were replaced with cDNA from either wild-type virus (HM175/wt) or a second independently isolated, but closely related cell culture-adapted virus (HM175/p16). Substitution of the complete 5'NTR of HM175/p35 with the 5'NTR of HM175/wt resulted in virus with very small replication foci in continuous African green monkey kidney (BS-C-1) cells, indicating that 5'NTR mutations in HM175/p35 virus are required for optimal growth in these cells. A chimera with the 5'NTR sequence of HM175/p16 retained the large foci of HM175/p35 virus, while the growth properties of other viruses having chimeric 5'NTR sequences indicated that mutations at bases 152 and/or 203 to 207 enhance replication in BS-C-1 cells. These findings were confirmed in one-step growth experiments, which also indicated that radioimmunofocus size is a valid measure of virus replication competence in cell culture. An additional mutation at base 687 of HM175/p16 had only a minor role in enhancing growth. In contrast to their effect in BS-C-1 cells, these 5'NTR mutations did not enhance replication in continuous fetal rhesus monkey kidney (FRhK-4) cells. Thus, mutations at bases 152 and/or 203 to 207 enhance the replication of HAV in a highly host cell-specific fashion.
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