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In vitro and in vivo mutational analysis of the 3'-terminal regions of hepatitis e virus genomes and replicons.

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:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) replication is not well understood, mainly because the virus does not infect cultured cells efficiently. However, Huh-7 cells transfected with full-length genomes produce open reading frame 2 protein, indicative of genome replication (6). To investigate the role of 3'-terminal sequences in RNA replication, we constructed chimeric full-length genomes with divergent 3'-terminal sequences of genotypes 2 and 3 replacing that of genotype 1 and transfected them into Huh-7 cells. The production of viral proteins by these full-length chimeras was indistinguishable from that of the wild type, suggesting that replication was not impaired. In order to better quantify HEV replication in cell culture, we constructed an HEV replicon with a reporter (luciferase). Luciferase production was cap dependent and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase dependent and increased following transfection of Huh-7 cells. Replicons harboring the 3'-terminal intergenotypic chimera sequences were also assayed for luciferase production. In spite of the large sequence differences among the 3' termini of the viruses, replication of the chimeric replicons was surprisingly similar to that of the parental replicon. However, a single unique nucleotide change within a predicted stem structure at the 3' terminus substantially reduced the efficiency of replication: RNA replication was partially restored by a covariant mutation. Similar patterns of replication were obtained when full-length genomes were inoculated into rhesus macaques, suggesting that the in vitro system could be used to predict the effect of 3'-terminal mutations in vivo. Incorporation of the 3'-terminal sequences of the swine strain of HEV into the genotype 1 human strain did not enable the human strain to infect swine.

journal_name

J Virol

journal_title

Journal of virology

authors

Graff J,Nguyen H,Kasorndorkbua C,Halbur PG,St Claire M,Purcell RH,Emerson SU

doi

10.1128/JVI.79.2.1017-1026.2005

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1017-26

issue

eissn

0022-538X

issn

1098-5514

pii

79/2/1017

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In vitro and in vivo mutational analysis of the 3'-terminal regions of hepatitis e virus genomes and replicons.