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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 16, Pages 8497-8506Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00340-07
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/I/00001151, BBS/E/I/00001212] Funding Source: researchfish
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/I/00001212, BBS/E/I/00001151] Funding Source: Medline
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We report that adaptation to infect the guinea pig did not modify the capacity of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) to kill suckling mice and to cause an acute and transmissible disease in the pig, an important natural host for this pathogen. Adaptive amino acid replacements (121,-> T in 2C, Q(44) -> R in 3A, and L-147 -> P in VP1), selected upon serial passages of a type C FMDV isolated from swine (biological clone C-S8c1) in the guinea pig, were maintained after virus multiplication in swine and suckling mice. However, the adaptive replacement L-147 -> P, next to the integrin-binding RGD motif at the GH loop in VP1, abolished growth of the virus in different established cell lines and modified its antigenicity. In contrast, primary bovine thyroid cell cultures could be productively infected by viruses with replacement L-147 -> P, and this infection was inhibited by antibodies to alpha v beta 6 and by an FMDV-derived RGD-containing peptide, suggesting that integrin alpha v beta 6 may be used as a receptor for these mutants in the animal (porcine, guinea pig, and suckling mice) host. Substitution T248 -> N in 2C was not detectable in C-S8c1 but was present in a low proportion of the guinea pig-adapted virus. This substitution became rapidly dominant in the viral population after the reintroduction of the guinea pig-adapted virus into pigs. These observations illustrate how the appearance of minority variant viruses in an unnatural host can result in the dominance of these viruses on reinfection of the original host species.
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