title: Construction of a recombinant BHV-1 expressing the VP1 gene of foot and mouth disease virus and its immunogenicity in a rabbit model.
abstract: Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) are two important infectious diseases of cattle. Using bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV-1) as a gene delivery vector for development of live-viral vaccines has gained widespread interest. In this study, a recombinant BHV-1 was constructed by inserting the synthetic FMDV (O/China/99) VP1 gene in the the gE locus of BHV-1 genome under the control of immediately early gene promoter of human cytomegalovirus (phIE CMV) and bovine growth hormone polyadenylation (BGH polyA) signal. After homologous recombination and plaque purification, a recombinant virus named BHV-1/gE(-)/VP1 was acquired and identified. The immunogenicity was confirmed in a rabbit model by virus neutralization test and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The result indicated that the BHV-1/gE(-)/VP1 has the potential for being developed as a bivalent vaccine for FMD and IBR.
authors.affiliation: Division of Livestock Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, 150001, People's Republic China.
authors.forename: Xian-Gang
authors.initials: XG
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Yuan-Mao
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Guang-Zhi
authors.initials: GZ
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Yan-Hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jun-Ke
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Hong-Fei
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Yu-Ran
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Gao