title: Critical role of segment-specific packaging signals in genetic reassortment of influenza A viruses.
abstract: The fragmented nature of the influenza A genome allows the exchange of gene segments when two or more influenza viruses infect the same cell, but little is known about the rules underlying this process. Here, we studied genetic reassortment between the A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2, MO) virus originally isolated from human and the avian A/Finch/England/2051/91 (H5N2, EN) virus and found that this process is strongly biased. Importantly, the avian HA segment never entered the MO genetic background alone but always was accompanied by the avian PA and M fragments. Introduction of the 5' and 3' packaging sequences of HA(MO) into an otherwise HA(EN) backbone allowed efficient incorporation of the chimerical viral RNA (vRNA) into the MO genetic background. Furthermore, forcing the incorporation of the avian M segment or introducing five silent mutations into the human M segment was sufficient to drive coincorporation of the avian HA segment into the MO genetic background. These silent mutations also strongly affected the genotype of reassortant viruses. Taken together, our results indicate that packaging signals are crucial for genetic reassortment and that suboptimal compatibility between the vRNA packaging signals, which are detected only when vRNAs compete for packaging, limit this process.
authors.affiliation: Virologie et Pathologie Humaine and VirNext, Faculté de Médecine RTH Laennec, Université Lyon 1, EA 4610, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France.
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Essere
authors.forename: Matthieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yver
authors.forename: Cyrille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gavazzi
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Terrier
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Isel
authors.forename: Emilie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fournier
authors.forename: Fabienne
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giroux
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Textoris
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Julien
authors.forename: Clio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Socratous
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rosa-Calatrava
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lina
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marquet
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Moules
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001717:Birds / Q000821:virology*; D060085:Coinfection / Q000821:virology*; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004285:Dogs; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal / Q000235:genetics*; D005838:Genotype; D057809:HEK293 Cells; D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D053122:Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype / Q000235:genetics*; D053125:Influenza A Virus, H5N2 Subtype / Q000235:genetics*; D061985:Madin Darby Canine Kidney Cells; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000235:genetics; D013045:Species Specificity; D019065:Virus Assembly / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral
keywords: RNA packaging; hemagglutinin
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