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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 82, Issue 15, Pages 7533-7539Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00185-08
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G00479X/1, BBS/B/00239, BSB/B/00301] Funding Source: Medline
- BBSRC [BB/G00479X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G00479X/1, BBS/B/00239] Funding Source: researchfish
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Whether chicken Mx inhibits influenza virus replication is an important question with regard to strategies aimed at enhancing influenza resistance in domestic flocks. The Asn631 polymorphism of the chicken Mx protein found in the Shamo (SHK) chicken line was previously reported to be crucial for the antiviral activity of this highly polymorphic chicken gene. Our aims were to determine whether cells from commercial chicken lines containing Asn631 alleles were resistant to influenza virus infection and to investigate the effects that other polymorphisms might have on Mx function. Unexpectedly, we found that the Asn631 genotype had no impact on multicycle replication of influenza virus (A/WSN/33 [H1N1]) in primary chicken embryo fibroblast lines. Furthermore, expression of the Shamo (SHK) chicken Mx protein in transfected 293T cells did not inhibit viral gene expression (A/PR/8/34 [H1N1], A/Duck/England/62 [H4N6], and A/Duck/Singapore/97 [H5N3]). Lastly, in minireplicon systems (A/PR/8/34 and A/Turkey/England/50-92/91 [H5N1]), which were highly sensitive to inhibition by the murine Mx1 and human MxA proteins, respectively, Shamo chicken Mx also proved ineffective in the context of avian as well as mammalian cell backgrounds. Our findings demonstrate that Asn631 chicken Mx alleles do not inhibit influenza virus replication of the five strains tested here and efforts to increase the frequency of Asn631 alleles in commercial chicken populations are not warranted. Nevertheless, chicken Mx variants with anti-influenza activity might still exist. The flow cytometry and minireplicon assays described herein could be used as efficient functional screens to identify such active chicken Mx alleles.
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