title: Bovine viral diarrhea virus strain Oregon: a novel mechanism for processing of NS2-3 based on point mutations.
abstract: Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) isolates can either be cytopathogenic (cp) or noncytopathogenic (noncp). While both biotypes express the nonstructural protein NS2-3, generation of NS3 strictly correlates with the cp phenotype. The production of NS3 is usually caused by cp specific genome alterations, which were found to be due to RNA recombination. Molecular analyses of the cp BVDV strain Oregon revealed that it does not possess such genome alterations but nevertheless is able to generate NS3 via processing of NS2-3. The NS3 serine protease is not involved in this cleavage, which, according to protein sequencing, occurs between amino acids 1589 and 1590 of the BVDV Oregon polyprotein. Transient-expression studies indicated that important information for the cleavage of NS2-3 is located within NS2. This was verified by expression of chimeric constructs containing cDNA fragments derived from BVDV Oregon and a noncp BVDV. It could be shown that the C-terminal part of NS2 plays a crucial role in NS2-3 cleavage. These data, together with results obtained by site-specific exchanges in this region, revealed a new mechanism for NS2-3 processing which is based on point mutations within NS2.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Virology, Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kümmerer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stoll
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Meyers
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D002460:Cell Line; D002918:Chymotrypsin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006224:Cricetinae; D004279:DNA, Viral; D001908:Diarrhea Viruses, Bovine Viral / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015870:Gene Expression; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases; D017354:Point Mutation; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D020365:RNA Helicases; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases; D043583:Nucleoside-Triphosphatase; D053487:DEAD-box RNA Helicases; D000085242:Viral Proteases
chemical_list: D002918:Chymotrypsin; D004279:DNA, Viral; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases; D020365:RNA Helicases; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins; C086730:p80 protein, bovine viral diarrhea virus; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases; D043583:Nucleoside-Triphosphatase; D053487:DEAD-box RNA Helicases; D000085242:Viral Proteases