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A synthetic biology approach for a vaccine platform against known and newly emerging serotypes of bluetongue virus.

Abstract：

UNLABELLED:Bluetongue is one of the major infectious diseases of ruminants and is caused by bluetongue virus (BTV), an arbovirus existing in nature in at least 26 distinct serotypes. Here, we describe the development of a vaccine platform for BTV. The advent of synthetic biology approaches and the development of reverse genetics systems has allowed the rapid and reliable design and production of pathogen genomes which can be subsequently manipulated for vaccine production. We describe BTV vaccines based on "synthetic" viruses in which the outer core proteins of different BTV serotypes are incorporated into a common tissue-culture-adapted backbone. As a means of validation for this approach, we selected two BTV-8 synthetic reassortants and demonstrated their ability to protect sheep against virulent BTV-8 challenge. In addition to further highlight the possibilities of genome manipulation for vaccine production, we also designed and rescued a synthetic BTV chimera containing a VP2 protein, including regions derived from both BTV-1 and BTV-8. Interestingly, while the parental viruses were neutralized only by homologous antisera, the chimeric proteins could be neutralized by both BTV-1 and BTV-8 antisera. These data suggest that neutralizing epitopes are present in different areas of the BTV VP2 and likely "bivalent" strains eliciting neutralizing antibodies for multiple strains can be obtained. IMPORTANCE:Overall, this vaccine platform can significantly reduce the time taken from the identification of new BTV strains to the development and production of new vaccines, since the viral genomes of these viruses can be entirely synthesized in vitro. In addition, these vaccines can be brought quickly into the market because they alter the approach, but not the final product, of existing commercial products.

journal_name

J Virol

journal_title

Journal of virology

authors

Nunes SF,Hamers C,Ratinier M,Shaw A,Brunet S,Hudelet P,Palmarini M

doi

10.1128/JVI.02183-14

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-11-01 00:00:00

pages

12222-32

issue

eissn

0022-538X

issn

1098-5514

pii

JVI.02183-14

journal_volume

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A synthetic biology approach for a vaccine platform against known and newly emerging serotypes of bluetongue virus.