Frontiers in Microbiology (Dec 2021)

The LORF5 Gene Is Non-essential for Replication but Important for Duck Plague Virus Cell-to-Cell Spread Efficiently in Host Cells

  • Bingjie Shen,
  • Bingjie Shen,
  • Bingjie Shen,
  • Yunjiao Li,
  • Yunjiao Li,
  • Yunjiao Li,
  • Anchun Cheng,
  • Anchun Cheng,
  • Anchun Cheng,
  • Mingshu Wang,
  • Mingshu Wang,
  • Mingshu Wang,
  • Ying Wu,
  • Ying Wu,
  • Ying Wu,
  • Qiao Yang,
  • Qiao Yang,
  • Qiao Yang,
  • Renyong Jia,
  • Renyong Jia,
  • Renyong Jia,
  • Bin Tian,
  • Bin Tian,
  • Bin Tian,
  • Xumin Ou,
  • Xumin Ou,
  • Xumin Ou,
  • Sai Mao,
  • Sai Mao,
  • Sai Mao,
  • Di Sun,
  • Di Sun,
  • Di Sun,
  • Shaqiu Zhang,
  • Shaqiu Zhang,
  • Shaqiu Zhang,
  • Dekang Zhu,
  • Dekang Zhu,
  • Shun Chen,
  • Shun Chen,
  • Shun Chen,
  • Mafeng Liu,
  • Mafeng Liu,
  • Mafeng Liu,
  • Xin-Xin Zhao,
  • Xin-Xin Zhao,
  • Xin-Xin Zhao,
  • Juan Huang,
  • Juan Huang,
  • Juan Huang,
  • Qun Gao,
  • Qun Gao,
  • Qun Gao,
  • Yunya Liu,
  • Yunya Liu,
  • Yunya Liu,
  • Yanling Yu,
  • Yanling Yu,
  • Yanling Yu,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Leichang Pan,
  • Leichang Pan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.744408
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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Duck plague virus (DPV) can cause high morbidity and mortality in many waterfowl species within the order Anseriformes. The DPV genome contains 78 open reading frames (ORFs), among which the LORF2, LORF3, LORF4, LORF5, and SORF3 genes are unique genes of avian herpesvirus. In this study, to investigate the role of this unique LORF5 gene in DPV proliferation, we generated a recombinant virus that lacks the LORF5 gene by a two-step red recombination system, which cloned the DPV Chinese virulent strain (DPV CHv) genome into a bacterial artificial chromosome (DPV CHv-BAC); the proliferation law of LORF5-deleted mutant virus on DEF cells and the effect of LORF5 gene on the life cycle stages of DPV compared with the parent strain were tested. Our data revealed that the LORF5 gene contributes to the cell-to-cell transmission of DPV but is not relevant to virus invasion, replication, assembly, and release formation. Taken together, this study sheds light on the role of the avian herpesvirus-specific gene LORF5 in the DPV proliferation life cycle. These findings lay the foundation for in-depth functional studies of the LORF5 gene in DPV or other avian herpesviruses.

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