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VACCINES
卷 11, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines11061111
关键词
Gibson assembly; foot-and-mouth disease virus; reverse genetics; vaccine; infectious clone
In this study, infectious clones of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) types O and A were successfully constructed using Gibson Assembly (GA) technology. These clones were generated by joining each FMDV coding region with a 4.3-kb FMDV minigenome vector. The assembled DNA was transfected into BHK-21 cells to produce the infectious FMDVs, which showed similar growth kinetics and antigenicity to the parental viruses. This method and the FMDV minigenome will facilitate the construction of FMDV infectious clones and enable genetic manipulation for FMDV research and vaccine production.
The construction of a full-length infectious clone, essential for molecular virological study and vaccine development, is quite a challenge for viruses with long genomes or possessing complex nucleotide sequence structures. Herein, we have constructed infectious clones of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) types O and A by joining each viral coding region with our pKLS3 vector in a single isothermal reaction using Gibson Assembly (GA). pKLS3 is a 4.3-kb FMDV minigenome. To achieve optimal conditions for the DNA joining, each FMDV coding sequence was divided into two overlapping fragments of approximately 3.8 and 3.2 kb, respectively. Both DNA fragments contain the introduced linker sequences for assembly with the linearized pKLS3 vector. FMDV infectious clones were produced upon directly transfecting the GA reaction into baby hamster kidney-21 (BHK-21) cells. After passing in BHK-21 cells, both rescued FMDVs (rO189 and rNP05) demonstrated growth kinetics and antigenicity similar to their parental viruses. Thus far, this is the first report on GA-derived, full-length infectious FMDV cDNA clones. This simple DNA assembly method and the FMDV minigenome would facilitate the construction of FMDV infectious clones and enable genetic manipulation for FMDV research and custom-made FMDV vaccine production.
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