Construction of Recombinant Rabies Virus Vectors Expressing H or F Protein of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is one of the most contagious and fatal diseases of small ruminants in the world and is classified as a category A epidemic disease. It is the target of a global eradication campaign led by the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) and Food and Agriculture Organi...

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Main Authors: Haojie Wang, Jinhao Bi, Na Feng, Yongkun Zhao, Tiecheng Wang, Yuetao Li, Feihu Yan, Songtao Yang, Xianzhu Xia
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Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
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author Haojie Wang
Jinhao Bi
Na Feng
Yongkun Zhao
Tiecheng Wang
Yuetao Li
Feihu Yan
Songtao Yang
Xianzhu Xia
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Jinhao Bi
Na Feng
Yongkun Zhao
Tiecheng Wang
Yuetao Li
Feihu Yan
Songtao Yang
Xianzhu Xia
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description Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is one of the most contagious and fatal diseases of small ruminants in the world and is classified as a category A epidemic disease. It is the target of a global eradication campaign led by the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The PPR live attenuated vaccine is currently the most widely used and approved vaccine, but the use of this vaccine interferes with the serological testing of the PPR elimination program, and there is a potential safety risk. Viral vector vaccines are one of the most promising methods to solve this dilemma. In this study, the full-length infectious clone plasmid of rabies virus (RABV), pD-SRV9-PM-LASV, was used as the backbone, and the envelope glycoprotein H (hemagglutinin protein) or F (fusion protein) gene of PPRV was inserted into the backbone plasmid to construct the infectious clones pD-SRV9-PM-PPRV-H and pD-SRV9-PM-PPRV-F, which express the PPRV H and PPRV F genes, respectively. The correct construction of these infectious clones was verified after sequencing and double digestion. The infectious clones were transfected with a helper plasmid into BSR/T7 cells, and recombinant viruses were successfully rescued by direct immunofluorescence, indirect immunofluorescence, Western blotting, and transmission electron microscopy and named rSRV9-H and rSRV9-F. The results of growth kinetics studies indicated that the inserted gene did not affect virus proliferation. Stability studies revealed that the inserted target gene was stably expressed in recombinant RABV for at least 15 generations. In this study, the recombinant viruses rSRV9-H and rSRV9-F were successfully rescued. The constructed viruses had good proliferative activity and stability and provided potential bivalent inactivated vaccine candidate strains for the prevention of PPR and livestock rabies.
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spelling doaj.art-cadfd27595884bf38bdf04e5c02795922023-11-24T03:06:36ZengMDPI AGVeterinary Sciences2306-73812022-10-0191055510.3390/vetsci9100555Construction of Recombinant Rabies Virus Vectors Expressing H or F Protein of Peste des Petits Ruminants VirusHaojie Wang0Jinhao Bi1Na Feng2Yongkun Zhao3Tiecheng Wang4Yuetao Li5Feihu Yan6Songtao Yang7Xianzhu Xia8Changchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Changchun 130000, ChinaCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin Agriculture University, Changchun 453003, ChinaChangchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Changchun 130000, ChinaChangchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Changchun 130000, ChinaChangchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Changchun 130000, ChinaCollege of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang 130118, ChinaChangchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Changchun 130000, ChinaChangchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Changchun 130000, ChinaChangchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Changchun 130000, ChinaPeste des petits ruminants (PPR) is one of the most contagious and fatal diseases of small ruminants in the world and is classified as a category A epidemic disease. It is the target of a global eradication campaign led by the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The PPR live attenuated vaccine is currently the most widely used and approved vaccine, but the use of this vaccine interferes with the serological testing of the PPR elimination program, and there is a potential safety risk. Viral vector vaccines are one of the most promising methods to solve this dilemma. In this study, the full-length infectious clone plasmid of rabies virus (RABV), pD-SRV9-PM-LASV, was used as the backbone, and the envelope glycoprotein H (hemagglutinin protein) or F (fusion protein) gene of PPRV was inserted into the backbone plasmid to construct the infectious clones pD-SRV9-PM-PPRV-H and pD-SRV9-PM-PPRV-F, which express the PPRV H and PPRV F genes, respectively. The correct construction of these infectious clones was verified after sequencing and double digestion. The infectious clones were transfected with a helper plasmid into BSR/T7 cells, and recombinant viruses were successfully rescued by direct immunofluorescence, indirect immunofluorescence, Western blotting, and transmission electron microscopy and named rSRV9-H and rSRV9-F. The results of growth kinetics studies indicated that the inserted gene did not affect virus proliferation. Stability studies revealed that the inserted target gene was stably expressed in recombinant RABV for at least 15 generations. In this study, the recombinant viruses rSRV9-H and rSRV9-F were successfully rescued. The constructed viruses had good proliferative activity and stability and provided potential bivalent inactivated vaccine candidate strains for the prevention of PPR and livestock rabies.https://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/9/10/555peste des petits ruminantsrabies virus vectorreverse geneticsvaccine candidate strainbivalent vaccine
spellingShingle Haojie Wang
Jinhao Bi
Na Feng
Yongkun Zhao
Tiecheng Wang
Yuetao Li
Feihu Yan
Songtao Yang
Xianzhu Xia
Construction of Recombinant Rabies Virus Vectors Expressing H or F Protein of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
Veterinary Sciences
peste des petits ruminants
rabies virus vector
reverse genetics
vaccine candidate strain
bivalent vaccine
title Construction of Recombinant Rabies Virus Vectors Expressing H or F Protein of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
title_full Construction of Recombinant Rabies Virus Vectors Expressing H or F Protein of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
title_fullStr Construction of Recombinant Rabies Virus Vectors Expressing H or F Protein of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
title_full_unstemmed Construction of Recombinant Rabies Virus Vectors Expressing H or F Protein of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
title_short Construction of Recombinant Rabies Virus Vectors Expressing H or F Protein of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
title_sort construction of recombinant rabies virus vectors expressing h or f protein of peste des petits ruminants virus
topic peste des petits ruminants
rabies virus vector
reverse genetics
vaccine candidate strain
bivalent vaccine
url https://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/9/10/555
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