title: Difference of two new LCMV strains in lethality and viral genome load in tissues.
abstract: More than 30 strains of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) have been isolated from mice, hamsters and humans in the United States, Europe and Japan. Experimentally infected mice exhibit different clinical signs and lethality depending on a combination of LCMV epitope peptides and host major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules. This study examined the pathogenicity, clinical signs and lethality, of two new LCMV strains (BRC and OQ28) using three inbred mouse strains with different genetic backgrounds having different H-2D haplotypes. Strain OQ28 (OQ28) infected mice exhibited clinical signs and lethality, whereas strain BRC (BRC) infected mice showed no clinical signs of infection. The viral genome load in tissues of C57BL/6 mice infected with two strains was determined using one-step real time RT-PCR. In C57BL/6 mice, higher levels of OQ28 viral genome load were detected in all tissues rather than were present in BRC infected mice. The viral genome load in lungs of both virus strains remained higher levels than in other tissues at 28 days post infection. Comparing sequences of the three LCMV epitope peptide regions revealed one non-conservative amino acid substitution codon in OQ28 and two amino acid differences in BRC. These results suggest that the varied pathogenicity and viral genome load of LCMV strains are not based only on differences in the host MHC class I molecule.
authors.affiliation: Division of Comparative Medicine, Center for Frontier Life Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.|Quality Control Department, Bio Technical Center, Japan SLC, Inc., 3-5-1 Aoihigashi, Naka, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 433-8114, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshikazu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.affiliation: Division of Comparative Medicine, Center for Frontier Life Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohsawa
authors.affiliation: Division of Comparative Medicine, Center for Frontier Life Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
authors.forename: Hitoki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamanaka
authors.affiliation: Division of Radiation Biology and Protection, Center for Frontier Life Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.affiliation: Division of Comparative Medicine, Center for Frontier Life Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.|National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Division of Comparative Medicine, Center for Frontier Life Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazutaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohsawa
mesh_terms: D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D000818:Animals; D006224:Cricetinae; D000939:Epitopes / Q000737:chemistry; D016679:Genome, Viral; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; D006801:Humans; D008216:Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis / Q000821:virology*; D008217:Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D019562:Viral Load
chemical_list: D000939:Epitopes; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
keywords: clinical sings; lethality; lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus; one-step real time RT-PCR; viral genome load