Isolation and identification of a non-haemagglutinating strain of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus from China and sequence analysis for the VP60 Gene.
A variant strain of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus, designated "whn-1", was isolated and identified in China. The virus lacked haemagglutinating activity at 25, 37 and 4 degrees C, respectively, and gave negative results in the HAT after two passages in experimentally infected rabbits, but gave positive results in Agar Diffusion Reaction (ADR) and Counter Immunoelectrophoresis (CIE). Using electron microscopy, negatively stained particles of the RHDV isolate showed that the virions was approximately 35 nm in diameter. The capsid protein VP60 gene of whn-1 strain was cloned into pMD18-T vector by RT-PCR assays and sequenced. The obtained VP60 gene sequence has been submitted to GenBank with the accession number: DQ069280. The whole VP60 gene of whn-1 was 1740 nt in size and encodes 579 aa. Alignment with other 16 strains of RHDV in the world, including such "RHDVa" strains as France 99-05, France-Reu-00, Germany-Triptis and ChinaTP, in addition to RCV and EBHSV, showed that the homology of RHDV strains were 90.0-98.0% for nucleotide sequence, 94.3-99.0% for amino acid sequence, respectively. The results indicated that the sequences of VP60 gene of different RHDV isolates, including non-haemagglutinating whn-1 strain and low-haemagglutinating Rainham strain, were relatively highly homologous, and the major variant amino acid were located within region C (301-328 aa) and region E(344-434 aa), which were specific to "RHDVa" strains. Moreover, the molecular characterisation of VP60 protein of RHDV whn-1 strain, such as Hydrophilicity plot, Flexible regions, Antigenic index, etc., were compared with reference RHDV strains of Spanish-AST/89, France-99-5 and UK-Rainham in this article. From the experiment, it's concluded that, the "whn-1" strain is probably an antigenic variant of "RHDVa", and the 3 amino acids of Phe (304), Ala (305), Ser (309), and 5 amino acids of Gly (359), Asn (365), Ala (369), Ala (370), Asn (386), located in P2 region in the VP60 protein, probably played an important role in the haemagglutination activity.
Tian
Lang
L
Lab of Animal Preventive Medicine & Bio-engineering, Animal Science & Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an 625014, PR China.
Liao
Juan
J
Li
Jian-wen
JW
Zhou
Wan-rong
WR
Zhang
Xia-lan
XL
Wang
Hong-ning
HN
D000818:Animals; D017250:Caliciviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary / Q000821:virology; D002681:China; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003378:Counterimmunoelectrophoresis; D006387:Hemagglutination, Viral / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D017929:Hemorrhagic Disease Virus, Rabbit / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008099:Liver / Q000821:virology; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D011817:Rabbits; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D014771:Virion / Q000648:ultrastructure
D012367:RNA, Viral; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins; C081149:viral protein 60, rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus
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