Poultry Science (Jun 2022)

The protein encoded by the duck plague virus UL14 gene regulates virion morphogenesis and affects viral replication

  • Jieyu Wan,
  • Fangjie Li,
  • Mingshu Wang,
  • Anchun Cheng,
  • Bin Tian,
  • Qiao Yang,
  • Ying Wu,
  • Xumin Ou,
  • Sai Mao,
  • Di Sun,
  • Shaqiu Zhang,
  • Juan Huang,
  • Qun Gao,
  • XinXin Zhao,
  • Shun Chen,
  • Mafeng Liu,
  • Renyong Jia,
  • Dekang Zhu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 101, no. 6
p. 101863

Abstract

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ABSTRACT: To investigate the pivotal roles of the duck plague virus (DPV) tegument protein UL14 in viral replication, we generated 2 mutated viruses of DPV by using the bacterial artifcial chromosome system, the UL14-null mutant virus (CHv-BAC-ΔUL14) and the corresponding revertant virus (CHv-BAC-ΔUL14R). We found that the CHv-BAC-ΔUL14 viruses exhibited impaired virion morphogenesis in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies. Furthermore, CHv-BAC-ΔUL14 exhibited a plaque size reduction in duck embryo fibroblasts (DEFs). Finally, CHv-BAC-ΔUL14 exhibited a significant viral growth defect. Taken together, our findings suggest that DPV UL14 protein regulates viral morphogenesis for efficient viral replication.

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