Construction of an Infectious Cdna Clone of Hepatitis E Virus Strain Je03-1760f That Can Propagate Efficiently in Cultured Cells
Construction of an Infectious Cdna Clone of Hepatitis E Virus Strain Je03-1760f That Can Propagate Efficiently in Cultured Cells
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戊型肝炎病毒株 Je03-1760f 感染性 cdna 克隆的构建,可在培养细胞中高效传播
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2008
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Hiroaki Okamoto
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Kentaro Yamada;Masaharu Takahashi;Yu Hoshino;Hideyuki Takahashi;K. Ichiyama;Toshinori Tanaka;Hiroaki Okamoto Correspondence;Hiroaki Okamoto
A full-length infectious cDNA clone (pJE03-1760F/wt) of a genotype 3 hepatitis E virus (HEV) (strain JE03-1760F) obtained from a faecal specimen was constructed in this study. Upon transfection of the capped in vitro transcripts of pJE03-1760F/wt into PLC/PRF/5 cells, the viral RNA levels in the culture supernatant started to increase on day 6 post-transfection (p.t.) and reached 10 7 copies ml " 1 on day 28 p.t. Detection of increasing numbers of cells with ORF2 protein expression by immunofluorescence assay at 5, 7, 11 and 15 days p.t. indicated the spread of HEV infection in cell culture. When the cDNA-derived virus in culture supernatant was inoculated into PLC/PRF/5 or A549 cells, it grew as efficiently as the faeces-derived virus in both cells, reaching 10 6 copies ml " 1 at 30 days post-inoculation. Our reverse genetics system for HEV that is usable in a robust cell-culture system will be useful for elucidation of the mechanism of HEV replication and functional roles of HEV proteins. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes acute and fulminant hepatitis E in humans. Genotype 1 and 2 HEVs have caused outbreaks of hepatitis E as water-borne epidemics, and genotype 3 and 4 HEVs were found in sporadic cases of hepatitis E, which were most likely zoonotic in origin (Okamoto, 2007). HEV is classified as the sole member of the genus Hepevirus (Emerson et al., 2004a) in the family Hepeviridae. HEV is a non-enveloped virus and its genome is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA, which is capped and polyadenylated (Kabrane-Lazizi et al., 1999; Tam et al., 1991). The genome is approximately 7.2 kb and contains three open reading frames (ORFs), ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3 (Tam et al., 1991). The ORF1 encodes non-structural proteins including RNA helicase and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (Agrawal et al., 2001; Koonin et al., 1992; Magden et al., 2001). ORF2 and ORF3 proteins are translated from a single subgenomic RNA (Graff et al., 2006; Huang et al., 2007). The ORF2 protein is the viral capsid protein, consisting of 660 aa. The ORF3 protein is a small protein (113–114 aa) that is essential for viral infectivity in animals 2007). However, the replication mechanism and protein functions of HEV are not fully understood. but an efficient cell culture system has not been developed. Several research groups have established infectious cDNA clones of HEV, which were observed to replicate in non-human primates or pigs (Emerson et al. Panda et …
影响因子:
9.4
作者:
Takahashi, Masaharu;Tanaka, Toshinori;Okamoto, Hiroaki
通讯作者:
Okamoto, Hiroaki
影响因子:
2.7
作者:
Takahashi, Masaharu;Yamada, Kentaro;Okamoto, Hiroaki
通讯作者:
Okamoto, Hiroaki