Poultry Science (Dec 2020)

Research Note: Duck plague virus glycoprotein I influences cell–cell spread and final envelope acquisition

  • Tian Liu,
  • Mingshu Wang,
  • Anchun Cheng,
  • Renyong Jia,
  • Ying Wu,
  • Qiao Yang,
  • Dekang Zhu,
  • Shun Chen,
  • Mafeng Liu,
  • Xinxin Zhao,
  • Shaqiu Zhang,
  • Juan Huang,
  • Sai Mao,
  • Xumin Ou,
  • Qun Gao,
  • XingJian Wen,
  • Di Sun,
  • Yunya Liu,
  • Yanling Yu,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Bin Tian,
  • Leichang Pan,
  • Xiaoyue Chen

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 99, no. 12
pp. 6647 – 6652

Abstract

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To determine the role of glycoprotein I (gI) in duck plague virus (DPV), a gI-deleted mutant (BAC-CHv-ΔgI) and a gI-revertant virus (BAC-CHv-ΔgI Rev) were constructed by using a markerless two-step Red recombination system implemented on the DPV genome cloned into a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC). Mutants were characterized on duck embryo fibroblast (DEF) cells compared with wild-type virus. BAC-CHv-ΔgI produced viral plaques on DEF cells that were on average approximately 57.2% smaller than those produced by BAC-CHv-ΔgI Rev and wild-type virus. Electron microscopy confirmed that deleting of gI resulted in nucleocapsids accumulated around the cytoplasm vesicles and few of them could complete the final envelopment process. These results clearly indicated that DPV gI plays significant roles in viral cell-cell spread and viral final envelopment process.

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