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VIROLOGY
Volume 400, Issue 2, Pages 259-270Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2010.02.012
Keywords
EHV-1; Neuropathogenicity; BAC; UL24; ORF37
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17380181, 21380179]
- Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21380179, 17380181] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) bacterial artificial chromosome clone (Ab4p BAC) was established based on neuropathogenic strain Ab4p. ORF37 encoding UL24 was replaced with a selection cassette, rpsL-neo gene, to produce an ORF37 deletion mutant, Ab4p Delta ORF37. Transfection of RK-13 cells with Ab4p Delta ORF37 genome DNA produced infectious virus, indicating that ORF37 is not essential for EHV-1 replication in cell culture. Deletion of ORF37 had no effect on the transcript expression of neighboring genes, ORF36 and ORF38, and the growth activity in MDBK cells. Ab4p Delta ORF37 lost neuropathogenicity in CBA/N1 mice as indicated by the absence of any neurological disorders and death. The growth of Ab4p Delta ORF37 in cultivated neural cells was one order of magnitude lower than that of parental and revertant viruses. These results indicated that the ORF37 is a neuropathogenicity determinant of EHV-1 in the mouse encephalitis model. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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