title: Molecular characterization of a foot-and-mouth disease virus containing a 57-nucleotide insertion in the 3'untranslated region.
abstract: A foot-and-mouth disease virus containing a 57-nucleotide (nt) insertion in the 3'untranslated region (3'UTR) was generated by transposon (tn)-mediated mutagenesis. Characterization of the mutant virus (A24-3'UTR8110) revealed no significant differences in virus growth, translation efficiency or virulence in cattle compared to the A24 wild-type virus. RNA modeling showed that the structures predicted in the 3'UTR were not affected by the tn insertion. These results revealed that the 3'UTR can tolerate foreign sequences that do not disrupt essential signals required for virus replication.
authors.affiliation: Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, USDA/ARS/NAA, Greenport, NY, 11944-0848, USA. maria.piccone@ars.usda.gov
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Piccone
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pauszek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pacheco
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rieder
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
mesh_terms: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000821:virology; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D005536:Foot-and-Mouth Disease / Q000821:virology; D029544:Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity; D008958:Models, Molecular; D016254:Mutagenesis, Insertional; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D012367:RNA, Viral