Genome location and identification of functions defective in the Bartha vaccine strain of pseudorabies virus.

AUTOR(ES)

Lomniczi, B

RESUMO

We have shown previously (Lomniczi et al., J. Virol. 52:198-205, 1984) that the Bartha vaccine strain of pseudorabies virus has a deletion in the short unique (Us) region of its genome--a deletion that is related to the absence of virus virulence. This strain is, however, also defective in other genes involved in virulence. We show here that virulence can be restored by marker rescue of the Bartha strain to which an intact Us has been restored (but not to the parental Bartha strain) by sequences derived from approximate map units 0.460 and 0.505 of the wild-type virus genome. No difference in the ability to grow in cell culture was observed between parental Bartha, Bartha 43/25a (Bartha to which an intact Us has been restored), or the doubly rescued Bartha strains. However, only the doubly rescued Bartha strain was virulent for both chickens and pigs and replicated to high titers when inoculated directly into the brains of chickens. The sequences that could restore virulence to the Bartha 43/25a strain encode four genes, all of which are involved in processes leading to the assembly of nucleocapsids. Since these sequences rescue virulence, it appears that a function that plays a role in nucleocapsid assembly is defective in the Bartha strain and that this defect contributes to the lack of virulence of this virus.

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