Emergence in Asia of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Viruses with Altered Host Range: Characterization of Alterations in the 3A Protein

AUTOR(ES)

Knowles, Nick J.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

In 1997, an epizootic in Taiwan, Province of China, was caused by a type O foot-and-mouth disease virus which infected pigs but not cattle. The virus had an altered 3A protein, which harbored a 10-amino-acid deletion and a series of substitutions. Here we show that this deletion is present in the earliest type O virus examined from the region (from 1970), whereas substitutions surrounding the deletion accumulated over the last 29 years. Analyses of the growth of these viruses in bovine cells suggest that changes in the genome in addition to the deletion, per se, are responsible for the porcinophilic properties of current Asian viruses in this lineage.

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