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VIROLOGY
Volume 396, Issue 1, Pages 1-9Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.10.017
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Enterovirus 71; RNA polymerase; Temperature susceptibility
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In 1998, an enterovirus 71 (EV71) epidemic in Taiwan resulted in 78 deaths: however, the molecular basis of EV71 pathogenicity remains poorly understood. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences in 3D polymerases of EV71 clinical isolates showed the T251V or T2511 substitution from 1986 and 1998 outbreaks. An EV71 replicon system showed that introducing an I251T mutation did not affect luciferase activities at 35 degrees C when compared with wild type; however, lower luciferase activities were observed when they were incubated at 39.5 degrees C. In addition, the I251T mutation in the EV71 infectious clone not only reduced viral replication at 39.5 degrees C in vitro but also decreased the virulence of the mouse adaptive strain MP4 in neonatal mice in an i.p. infection model. Therefore, these results suggested that the threonine at position 251 results in a temperature sensitivity phenotype of EV71 which may contribute to the attenuation of circulating strains. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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