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. 2011 Feb 27;8:85. doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-85

Differentiation of canine distemper virus isolates in fur animals from various vaccine strains by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism according to phylogenetic relations in china

Fengxue Wang 1, Xijun Yan 2,✉, Xiuli Chai 1, Hailing Zhang 1, Jianjun Zhao 1, Yongjun Wen 1, Wei Wu 2
PMCID: PMC3056815  PMID: 21352564

Abstract

In order to effectively identify the vaccine and field strains of Canine distemper virus (CDV), a new differential diagnostic test has been developed based on reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). We selected an 829 bp fragment of the nucleoprotein (N) gene of CDV. By RFLP analysis using BamHI, field isolates were distinguishable from the vaccine strains. Two fragments were obtained from the vaccine strains by RT-PCR-RFLP analysis while three were observed in the field strains. An 829 nucleotide region of the CDV N gene was analyzed in 19 CDV field strains isolated from minks, raccoon dogs and foxes in China between 2005 and 2007. The results suggest this method is precise, accurate and efficient. It was also determined that three different genotypes exist in CDV field strains in fur animal herds of the north of China, most of which belong to Asian type. Mutated field strains, JSY06-R1, JSY06-R2 and JDH07-F1 also exist in Northern China, but are most closely related to the standard virulent strain A75/17, designated in Arctic and America-2 genetype in the present study, respectively.

Background

Canine distemper virus (CDV) is an enveloped negative-strand RNA virus classified into the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae. CDV has a very broad host range, having been isolated from dogs, red pandas, foxes, raccoon dogs and tigers, and also identified in giant pandas, lions, lynxes, golden cats, bears and wolves [1-4]. Since 1972, the number of clinical cases of distemper in dogs and fur animals increased rapidly, when large mink and fox farms were established in China. CDV infection results in systemic disease with involvement of the central nervous system and the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts [5]. The economic loss is significant due to CDV infection.

Although vaccination against CDV with attenuated virus can protect the majority of animals, this protection does not necessarily extend to the field strains. The accurate diagnosis of CDV infection can be made with the use of methods based on molecular biological techniques. In recent years, the application of nucleic acid hybridization, PCR and other techniques[6-9] has improved the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of CDV diagnosis. The detection of CDV based on N gene has been established by many researchers [10-14]. Recently, real-time RT-PCR targeting the hypervariable C-terminal domain of the nucleocapsid (N) gene was established and shown to be more sensitive and effective [15]. The use of RT-PCR-RFLP to detect the hemagglutinin (H) gene of CDV was reported by Calderon [16]. However, the CDV N gene is more conserved than H gene, and therefore, provides a better target for CDV detection.

Identification of vaccine and field strains of CDV is very important for control the disease. The contagious nature and the high mortality rates of canine distemper make it necessary to speed up the diagnostic procedure in order to quarantine infected animals and start appropriate treatments early. CDV is a highly effective prophylactic. Accurate vaccination and good surveillance programs are of great importance, and reliable detection methods are needed. So the tool of differentiation of vaccine and field strains is the first step to do. In this study, an RT-PCR-RFLP method based on CDV N gene was established, which could effectively differentiate the vaccine and field strains of CDV. This method not only met the need for veterinary technology in the fur industry, but also supplied a theoretical foundation for field strain genotyping and furthered the basic research of CDV.

Methods

Viral strains, cells and samples

The vaccine strain, CDV3, which has been most widely used in the prevention of canine distemper in domestic fur animals, was identified and preserved by the Zoonosis Lab, Institute of Special Field Economic Animal and Plant Science, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The commercial vaccine products included vaccine 1: INTERVET DHPPI (Holland), vaccine 2: VIRBAC hexade vaccine (France), vaccine 3: Norden Chimeric quadruple vaccine (USA) and vaccine 4: Laboratories HIPRA septuple vaccine (Spain). All the N gene segments of CDV in these combinative vaccines of the present study were respectively labeled as vaccine 1, vaccine 2, vaccine 3, vaccine 4. African green monkey kidney cells were purchased from China Institute of Veterinary Drug Control. The blood or tissue samples from infected animals were collected from breeding fields in different provinces of northeast China.

Primers

GenBank sequence analysis revealed a BamHI site at position 1086 in the genome of CDV field strains [GenBank: AY443350, GenBank: AY649446, GenBank: AY445077, GenBank: AY542312, GenBank: AY466011, GenBank: AY386315, GenBank: AY386316] and the standard virus strain (A75/17) but not in the vaccine strain (Onderstpoort). After analysis of the N gene in other field isolates [GenBank: AY390348, GenBank: AJ009656, GenBank: DQ887066, GenBank: DQ003302, GenBank: EF445056, GenBank: DQ435615, GenBank: EF445050, GenBank: DQ522030] and the vaccine strain [GenBank: EF418783], a difference in the BamHI site was observed. Therefore, this could serve as a valuable tool in the differentiation of field strains from vaccine strains.

A conserved segment (372-1200 bp) of CDV N gene (Onderstepoort) was selected and primers designed (P1: 5'TTCTG AGGCA GATGA GTTCT TC 3', P2: 5'CTTGG ATGCT ATTTC TGACA CT 3'), with a product length of 829 bp. The primer set was synthesized by Shanghai Yingjun biotechnological Co. Ltd (Invitrogen, Beijing, China).

Preparation of the viral RNA

The tissues and blood of infected animals were collected using sterile technique. The tissues were ground after adding 1:1 PBS (weight: volume). The total RNA was extracted using the RNAeasy kit (QIAGEN) according to the manufacture's instructions. Total RNA of virus culture was extracted with TRIzol (Invitrogen) and eluted using DEPC (diethyl pyrocarbonate)-treated water. The RNA was either directly used in RT-PCR or preserved at -70°C for later use.

RT-PCR

The PCR amplication cycle was optimized as follows: 94°C 45 s, 52.2°C 45 s and 72°C 45 s, for 35 cycles with a final extension step at 72°C for 5 min. Five microliters of the amplified products were visualized using gel electrophoresis in a 1.0% agarose gel in the presence of ethidium bromide. Bands were visualized by ultraviolet light transillumination and compared with a 100 bp Ladder (TakaRa).

Recovery, purification and RFLP analysis on PCR products

The positive bands were purified by gel extraction (TIANGEN) and subsequently used for the RFLP experiment. The RFLP reaction was performed as follows. Two μl 10× buffer, 1μl BamHI (TaKaRa), 6μl PCR product and 11μl aseptic deionized water were combined into 20 ul total reaction volume. The reaction was then incubated in 37°C water bath for 1-1.5 h, after which time, 2 μl of 10× Loading buffer was added. The results of agarose gel electrophoresis were used to determine the type of virus in the sample.

Sequencing and genetic analysis of N gene of isolated CDV field virus strains

To confirm the occurrence of the target gene sequence and BamHI site, all of the amplified segments were cloned into the pMD18-T vector (TaKaRa) and sequenced at Shanghai Yingjun Biotechnological Co. Ltd (Invitrogen, Beijing, China). The sequencing result was analyzed and 829 bp segments of 19 field strains were compared to cognate sequences of a selection of 21 CDV strains of various animal and geographical origins and 5 vaccine strains. Phylogenetic analysis was performed.

Results

Amplification and purification of the target gene segments

The total RNA was extracted from suspected CDV samples and vaccine strain. The target segment was amplified under optimized conditions. A specific 829 bp fragment of N gene was obtained from 19 CDV field strains and 5 CDV attenuated strains contained in the commercial vaccines (data not shown). The positive products were purified by gel extraction and stored at -20°C for later use.

RFLP analysis

RFLP analysis was carried out on the purified target segments and the results were used to identify the corresponding virus as vaccine or field strain. According to the analysis, the 829 bp PCR product was cleaved into two segments by BamHI: 675 bp and 153 bp in the vaccine strains. The field strains were cleaved into three segments: 455 bp, 220 bp and153 bp (Figure 1). Lanes 1-10 in Figure 1A and lanes 1-9 in Figure 1B show the RFLP results of the amplified 829 bp segment in the 19 samples from clinically suspected canine distemper animals. These strains are from several provinces: Hebei, Shandong, Liaoning and Jilin. They are isolated in minks, raccoon dogs and foxes. Lanes 11, 12 in Figure 1A and lanes 10-12 in Figure 1B show the RT-PCR-RFLP results of vaccine strains, which are CDV3, Spanish, France, Holland and USA. From the figure, the 829 bp segments amplified from suspected CDV animals could all be digested by BamHI into three fragments, suggesting the detected CDV strains in these tissues are field strains; while the vaccine strains show the theoretical 2 fragment pattern.

Figure 1.

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RFLP electrophoresis result to identify the amplified 829 bp segments of CDV vaccine strains and field strains. A) Lane 1-10: LDL05-M1, LDL05-F1, SDWD06-M1, LHLD06-M1, LHC06-F1, JSY06-R1, LLY06-M1, SN07-R1, HCL07-R1, LHS07-R1; Line 11,12: CDV3 and Spanish; M: 100 bp Ladder DNA Marker; B) Lanes 1-9: JDH07-F1, JDAN07-R1, LDL05-M2, LDL05-F2, SDWD06-M2, LHLD06-M2, JSY06-R2, HSN07-R2, HCL07-R2; Lanes 10-12: France, Holland and USA; M: 100 bp Ladder DNA Marker. Three bands were seen in Figure 1A(Lanes 1-10) and Figure 1B(Lanes 1-9): 455 bp, 220 bp and 153 bp, which belong to CDV field strains; two bands were showed in Figure 1A(Lanes 11,12) and Figure 1B(Lanes 10-12): 675 bp and 153 bp, which are CDV vaccines.

Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the isolated field virus strains

The PCR product of the putative field strains were sequenced and submitted to GenBank. The 610th base of the 829 bp segment (correlating to the 981st base in the total N gene) in field strains was different from that in vaccine strains. It was the conversion of the 610th base from G to A leading to an additional BamHI site in 829 bp segment of N gene in field CDV strains compared to CDV vaccine strains (Figure 2). Thus there are 2 BamHI digestion sites in the 829 bp segment of the N gene in CDV field strains, whereas only one in vaccine strains (sequence of the five CDV commercial vaccine). Additionally, this single nucleotide differentiation is observed between 3 CDV vaccine strains (Lederle, Snyder Hill, Onderstepoort) and 21 CDV isolates in the GenBank sequences, indicating the BamHI site can distinguish these CDV vaccine strains and field strains.

Figure 2.

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A single nucleotide difference leads to the existence of an addition BamHI site of CDV field strains. All CDV isolates have an A at 610 nt in N gene 829 bp fragments, but vaccine strains have a G. (BamHI site GGATCC showed in box). Underline indicates the 19 Chinese CDV field strains analyzed in this study. Underline with broken line means commercial CDV vaccines analyzed in this study.

Furthermore, the nucleotide sequences of the RT-PCR products from 19 field isolated strains and CDV of in the five commercial vaccine were analyzed. The 829 bp nucleotide fragments of the N gene were sequenced and then aligned with corresponding sequences of the CDV strains obtained from the GenBank database. Figure 3 shows the distance-based Neighbor-Joining tree displaying the phylogenetic relationship among 49 CDV strains based on one part of N gene. In the phylogenetic tree, most of the Chinese field strain (16/19) grouped together in one branch in the Asia-1 genotype. However, three strains (JSY06-R1 and JSY06-R2, isolated from raccoon dog in Jilin Songyuan, and JDH07-F1 from Jilin Dehui silvery fox) obviously belong to distinct branchs. The raccoon dog strains JSY06-R1 and JSY06-R2 displayed the highest identity to HL, a fox strain identified from Heilongjiang province and were designed in Arctic genotype. The fox strain JDH07-F1 has the highest homology with the standard virulent strain A75/17, which is belong to America-2 genotype. The other 16 field strains are similar to published strains on the China mainland, such as HD, TN, MS01 and PingTung in the genotype of Asia-1.

Figure 3.

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Phylogenetic analysis of the N gene of field CDV strains. (1) vaccine strains, or America-1 genotype; (2) (3) (4) (5) four branches of the CDV field virus strains, (2) The branch belonging to Arctic genotype. Two strains (JSY06-R1 and JSY06-R2) of CDV isolated from Jinlin Songyuan raccoon dog, distinguished from other strains, are similar to HL, and were clustered into Arctic genotype; (3) America-2 CDVs genotype. JDH07-F1, isolated from Jilin Dehui slivery fox, which was most closely related to the standard field strains A75/17, which belong to America-2 CDVs; (4) Europe genotype. This cluster has not been identified in China. (5) Asia-1 genotype. The 16 field strains in present study are closely related to many field strains, which from China mainland or Taiwan China, and belong to Asia-1 genotype. Δ means CDV isolates in this study.

Discussions

Due to a worldwide distribution and the broad host-range of CDV including a vast wildlife reservoir, and available in large amounts of unrelated species of animals in interspecific spreads, eliminate CDV is unlikely, therefore, prevention of disease is very important. Timely diagnosis, differential detection of strain type of CDV, reasonable utilization of vaccine to prevent the disease effectively, can obtain the effective control of canine distemper. So the method of differentiation of CDV vaccine and field strains is needed to construct. Nucleocapsid protein (N) gene is most conserved structural proteins gene of CDV.

Sidhu et al have found the 981st base of N gene originating from some CDV vaccines has changed from G to A in the field strains [17]. This leads an additional BamHI site, which allows for the clinical discrimination. During sequence alignment of the CDV genome, a difference between CDV field strains and vaccine strains was observed and therefore a method developed to identify them.

In present study, we report on the development of RT-PCR-RFLP suitable for the rapid and sensitive discrimination of CDV field strains and vaccine strains. The assay is based on the conserved CDV N gene. An 829 bp segment between 372 bp and 1200 bp of the CDV N gene was amplified and used in RFLP analysis. By the result banding pattern, one could identify the strain as vaccine or field. After digestion by BamHI, electrophoresis showed two fragments (659 and 153 bp) in the vaccine strain and three fragments (455, 220 and 153 bp) in the field strains. Due to fur animal breeding at present mainly concentrated in north and northeast of China, we collected several CDV vaccine on the domestic and international markets and animal organs suspected happening distemper in north and northeast of China. The collected tissues were investigated including 19/83 RT-PCR positive (data not shown).

When Calderon characterized CDV from vaccinated and non-vaccinated dogs, he found that the CDV H gene RFLP analysis by NheI could identify vaccine and field virus strains of CDV [16]. But CDV H gene had more variable than N gene [18-20]. This novel method (RT-PCR-RFLP) to identify vaccine and field virus strains of CDV targets the conserved N gene and the amplified segment (829 bp) is easy to manipulate. Confirmation of field virus infection (or vaccine virus artifact) animals in the clinic could be completed in 6 hours. Five CDV vaccines on the market, including vaccines from China, Holland, France, USA, and Spain, were analyzed, and only 2 fragments by the 829 bp fragment of CDV N gene RFLP analysis were observed, coinciding with one BamHI digestion site. Furthermore, the sequences were identical to the Onderstepoort strain displayed in GenBank [16]. The 19 field isolates coming from northeast and north of China from 2005 to 2007, all displayed 3 fragments and contain 2 BamHI sites, identical to the N gene sequence of CDV isolates in GenBank. Then this new assay is suitable to accurately distinguishing between the CDV vaccine and field strains. The assay is also precise, and efficient and will give an excellent technological support that will in turn cultivate the fur industry in China. To demonstrate the novelty and utility of this new assay, a patent invention (CN200710056023.4) was awarded.

Phylogenetic analysis based on H gene[16,21,22], there are Aisa-1, Aisa-2, Aisa-3, Europe, Europe wild-life, America-2 and Arctic genotype CDV field strains. In this study, the part of CDV N genes of 19 Chinese field CDV strains detected from breeding foxes, raccoons and minks strains were sequenced and analyzed. A genetic analysis of the N gene 829 bp segments of these field CDV strains was performed. Phylogenetic distances suggested that there are three types CDV field strains in fur animals in Northern China. Most of the field CDV strains coming from northeast and north of China from 2005 to 2007 belong to Asia-1 type. Two strains from Jilin (JSY06-R1 and JSY06-R2) must be mentioned, as they are remarkably different from other isolates and presumably have diversity due to gene mutation. In previous report, three different CDV genotypes (Asia-1, Arctic, and Asia-3) were currently circulating in breeding foxes, raccoon dogs and minks in China based on H gene of CDV phylogenetic analysis[22]. Here, strains JSY06-R1 and JSY06-R2, identified from Jilin province in 2006, displayed the highest identity to HL strain, belong to Arctic genotype. Arctic CDVs had been reported since 1980 s [23,24] and then widespread in Europe[25,21,26]. In the late 1990 s, Arctic CDVs arised in China[27]. At present, Arctic CDVs, such as strain HL from Heilongjiang province[22], strain Liu from Jilin province[27] and JSY06-R1 and JSY06-R2 from Jilin province in this study, are all exist in northeast of China.

Asia-3 CDV in breeding foxes, raccoon dogs and minks in China were firstly described in 2010[22]. However, the present study further revealed the existence of America-2 genotypes of CDV in breeding foxes in China. By phylogenetic analysis, strain JDH07-F1 from fox had been found to belong to the branch with classical virulent virus A75/17, which belonged to CDV America-2 genotypes (Figure 3). Wild-type CDV strain A75/17 is a highly virulent strain, which induces a persistent infection in the central nervous system with demyelinating disease[28]. Strain JDH07-F1 was highly identical (99.2% nucleotide) with Wild-type strain A75/17 in the N protein gene. So it was speculated that the virulence of JDH07-F1 strain must be strong. Further study will explore the biological characteristics of these virulent virus strains.

Conclusions

An ingenious method had been applied to identify vaccine and field virus strains of CDV. RFLP analysis of the 829 bp fragment of CDV N gene can be digested into two fragments(659 and 153 bp) in the vaccine strain and three fragments (455, 220 and 153 bp) in the field strains by BamHI. We analyzed N gene of 49 strains of CDV (including 19 new field isolates coming from northeast and north of China during 2005 and 2007). The results showed the vast majority of the CDV strains analyzed in this study were characterized as Asia-1 genotype. Strain JSY06-R1, JSY06-R2 and JDH07-F1 are belong to Arctic and America-2 type, respectively. And JDH07-F1, a first America-2 type CDV, is close to A75/17, maybe with higher virulence.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions

FXW was responsible for experimental design, analyses and drafting of the manuscript, and performed RT-PCR and RFLP assays, and analyze sequence. XLC and HLZ participated in virus culture and virus isolation. JJZ did the work of collection of specimens. XJY and WW were responsible for supervision of the study. YJW review the manuscript and make figures and tables. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Contributor Information

Fengxue Wang, Email: fengxuewang@yahoo.com.cn.

Xijun Yan, Email: yanxijungmp@yahoo.com.cn.

Xiuli Chai, Email: cxl@163.com.

Hailing Zhang, Email: hailing_z@163.com.

Jianjun Zhao, Email: jianjunzhao2004@yahoo.com.cn.

Yongjun Wen, Email: yongjunwen@126.com.

Wei Wu, Email: wuweitcs@126.com.

Aknowledgements

The study was financially supported by the grant of the Social Common wealth Research Special funds of Scientific Research Institute. The authors thank Dr. Lisa Mc Ewen and Mary Charlotte Guest (College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, USA) helps in preparation of the manuscript.

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