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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-2-10
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Equine arteritis virus (EAV) causes a persistent infection of the reproductive tract of carrier stallions. The authors determined the complete genome sequences of viruses (CW96 and CW01) that were present 5 years apart in the semen of a carrier stallion (CW). The CW96 and CW01 viruses respectively had only 85.6 % and 85.7 % nucleotide identity to the published sequence of EAV (EAV030). The CW96 and CW01 viruses had two 1 nt insertions and a single 1 nt deletion in the leader sequence, and a 3 nt coding insertion in ORF1a; thus their genomes included 12 708 nt as compared to the 12 704 nt in EAV030. Variation between viruses present in the semen of stallion CW and EAV030 was especially marked in the replicase gene (ORF1a and 1b), and the greatest variation occurred in the portion of ORF1a encoding the nsp2 protein. The ORFs 3 and 5, which respectively encode the GP3 and GP5 envelope proteins, showed greatest variation amongst ORFs encoding structural EAV proteins. Comparative sequence analyses of CW96 and CW01 indicated that ORFs 1a, 1b and 7 were highly conserved during persistent infection, whereas there was substantial variation in ORFs 3 and 5. Although the variation that occurs in ORF5 results in the emergence of novel phenotypic viral variants as determined by neutralization assay, all variants were neutralized by high-titre polyclonal equine antisera, suggesting that immune evasion is unlikely to be responsible for the establishment of persistent EAV infection of carrier stallions. Northern blot analyses of RNA extracted from cell culture propagated viruses isolated from 10 different persistently infected stallions failed to demonstrate any large genomic deletions, suggesting that defective interfering particles are also unlikely to be important in either the maintenance or clearance of persistent EAV infection of the reproductive tract of carrier stallions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0022-1317
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
85
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
379-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Arteritis Virus, Equine, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Arterivirus Infections, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Carrier State, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Defective Viruses, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Europe, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Genome, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Horse Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Horses, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Male, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-North America, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Semen, pubmed-meshheading:14769895-Viral Nonstructural Proteins
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic characterization of equine arteritis virus during persistent infection of stallions.
pubmed:affiliation
Bernard and Gloria Salick Equine Viral Disease Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. ubbalasuriya@ucdavis.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't