期刊
VACCINES
卷 7, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines7040207
关键词
ILTV; vaccine; virus control; genome editing; Cre-lox; recombinant vaccines
资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/M008681/1, BBS/E/I/00001852]
- British Council [172710323, 332228521]
- BBSRC [BB/R012695/1, BB/M008681/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) is a promising vaccine vector due to its heterologous gene accommodation capabilities, low pathogenicity, and potential to induce cellular and humoral arms of immunity. Owing to these characteristics, different gene-deletion versions of ILTVs have been successfully deployed as a vector platform for the development of recombinant vaccines against multiple avian viruses using conventional recombination methods, which are tedious, time-demanding, and error-prone. Here, we applied a versatile, and customisable clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 accompanied with Cre-Lox system to simultaneously delete virulence factors and to insert foreign genes in the ILTV genome. Using this pipeline, we successfully deleted thymidine kinase (TK) and unique short 4 (US4) genes and inserted fusion (F) gene of the Newcastle disease virus without adversely affecting ILTV replication and expression of the F protein. Taken together, the proposed approach offers novel tools to attenuate (by deletion of virulence factor) and to generate multivalent (by insertion of heterologous genes) vaccine vectors to protect chickens against pathogens of poultry and public health importance.
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