SINDBIS VIRUS DETERMINANTS OF INFECTION IN MOSQUITOS

辛毕斯病毒蚊子感染的决定因素

• 批准号: 6028112
• 负责人: KENNETH E OLSON
• 金额: $ 20.69万
• 依托单位: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-04-01 至 2003-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6028112
• 关键词: Aedes; Sindbis virus; clone cells; communicable disease transmission; disease vectors; gene expression; genetic strain; green fluorescent proteins; host organism interaction; polymerase chain reaction; site directed mutagenesis; structural genes; transfection /expression vector; virus genetics; virus infection mechanism; virus receptors; virus replication

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): The applicants propose to study the interactions of Sindbis virus with Aedes aegypti. To do this they will use molecular clones of SIN that have been engineered to express phenotypic characteristics of interest and which bear convenient marker genes. They will examine two infectious DNA clones of SIN, one of which infects Aedes midguts inefficiently (the 2J virus) and the other which infects midguts efficiently and causes disseminated infections in the mosquito (the MRE1001 virus). The MRE1001 virus is a chimera between he nonstructural genes of the 2J virus and the structural genes from a midgut infecting strain, the MRE16 strain. The 2J strain and the chimeric MRE1001 strains have both been engineered to contain a second sub-genomic RNA 3-prime to the normal capsid region which encodes GFP (green fluorescent protein) They will first compare growth curves of these three viruses when given by the oral or injection routes, and compare the organ tropisms, extrinsic incubation periods, and transmission potentials of the viruses. They will then create additional chimeras, gene by gene, of the structural genes of the MRE1001 and 2J strains to define the genetic determinants of midgut tropism and dissemination. Finally, they will introduce site specific mutations and deletions to further refine the genetic determinants of viral gut replication and dissemination. In a related line of research they propose to create a new infectious DNA clone of SIN from the MRE16 strain. This strain will differ from the MRE1001 strain in that all the non-structural genes as well as the structural genes will derive from a mid-gut replicating, disseminating virus strain.

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