Establishment of a minigenome system for Oropouche virus reveals the S genome segment to be significantly longer than reported previously

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Acrani, Gustavo Olszanski
Tilston-Lunel, Natasha L
Spiegel, Martin
Weidmann, Manfred
Dilcher, Meik
Silva, Daisy Elaine Andrade da
Nunes, Márcio Roberto Teixeira
Elliott, Richard M
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Oropouche virus (OROV) is a medically important orthobunyavirus, which causes frequent outbreaks of a febrile illness in the northern parts of Brazil. However, despite being the cause of an estimated half a million human infections since its first isolation in Trinidad in 1955, details of the molecular biology of this tripartite, negative-sense RNA virus remain limited. We have determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the Brazilian prototype strain of OROV, BeAn 19991, and found a number of differences compared with sequences in the database. Most notable were that the S segment contained an additional 204 nt at the 3' end and that there was a critical nucleotide mismatch at position 9 within the base-paired terminal panhandle structure of each genome segment. In addition, we obtained the complete sequence of the Trinidadian prototype strain TRVL-9760 that showed similar characteristics to the BeAn 19991 strain. By using a T7 RNA polymerase-driven minigenome system, we demonstrated that cDNA clones of the BeAn 19991 L and S segments expressed functional proteins, and also that the newly determined terminal untranslated sequences acted as functional promoters in the minigenome assay. By co-transfecting a cDNA to the viral glycoproteins, virus-like particles were generated that packaged a minigenome and were capable of infecting naive cells.
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ACRANI, Gustavo Olszanski et al. Establishment of a minigenome system for Oropouche virus reveals the S genome segment to be significantly longer than reported previously. Journal of General Virology, v. 96, pt. 3, p. 513-523, Mar. 2015.xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-decsPrimary
Orthobunyavirus / genéticaGenoma Viral
Clonagem Molecular
Genômica / métodos
Dados de Sequência Molecular
RNA Viral / genética