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. 1997 Jan;71(1):471–478. doi: 10.1128/jvi.71.1.471-478.1997

Authentic and chimeric full-length genomic cDNA clones of bovine viral diarrhea virus that yield infectious transcripts.

V B Vassilev 1, M S Collett 1, R O Donis 1
PMCID: PMC191074  PMID: 8985373

Abstract

Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is the most insidious and devastating viral pathogen of cattle in the United States. Disease control approaches must be based on detailed knowledge of virus biology. To develop reverse-genetic systems to study the molecular biology of the virus, we first constructed a plasmid containing the entire genome of BVDV cloned as cDNA. Subsequently, we showed that infectious BVDV was produced by cells transfected with uncapped RNA transcribed in vitro from the cDNA clone. This result defined functional 5' and 3' termini in viral genomic RNA and established the biological importance of the proposed internal ribosome entry site element in the 5' untranslated region of the viral genome. BVDV rescued from the infectious cDNA clone has an in vitro phenotype similar to that of the wild-type parent, the National Animal Disease Laboratory strain of BVDV. A deletion of a single codon in the full-length genomic BVDV cDNA clone, encoding glutamic acid at position 1600, gave rise to sequence-tagged virus easily identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of reverse transcription-PCR amplicons. Suitability of the molecular clone of BVDV for genomic manipulations was shown by substitution of the major envelope glycoprotein E2/gp53 with that of the Singer strain, giving rise to a chimeric virus. The predicted change in antigenic structure of the chimeric virus could be readily identified with strain-specific monoclonal antibodies by neutralization and immunofluorescence assays. Immediate applications of this system include development of safe and effective live vaccine strains possessing predetermined defined attenuating mutations.

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