Journal
VIROLOGY
Volume 432, Issue 1, Pages 194-203Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.06.016
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Reassortment; Intertypic interference; Nucleoprotein; Influenza B virus
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- National Science Development Agency (NSTDA) [CPMO-P-00-20386]
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Given that co-infection of cells with equivalent titers of influenza A and B viruses (FluA and FluB) has been shown to result in suppression of FluA growth, it is possible that FluB-specific proteins might hinder FluA polymerase activity and replication. We addressed this possibility by individually determining the effect of each gene of FluB on the FluA polymerase assay and found that the nucleoprotein of FluB (NPFluB) inhibits polymerase activity of FluA in a dose-dependent manner. Mutational analyses of NPFluB suggest that functional NPFluB is necessary for this inhibition. Slower growth of FluA was also observed in MOCK cells stably expressing NPFluB. Further analysis of NPFluB indicated that it does not affect nuclear import of NPFluA. Taken together, these findings suggest a novel role of NPFluB in inhibiting replication of FluA, providing more insights into the mechanism of interference between FluA and FluB and the lack of reassortants between them. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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