An Efficient Method for Generating Poxvirus Recombinants in the Absence of Selection.
Rice AD, Gray SA, Li Y, Damon I, Moyer RW.
SourceDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, 1600 SW Archer Rd., Gainesville, FL 32610, USA; gray.staceya@gmail.com (S.G.); rmoyer@ufl.edu (R.M.).
Abstract
The use of selectable markers (ecogpt) and selection pressures to aid in detection of poxvirus (Vaccinia, VV) recombinants has been implicated in the unintended introduction of second site mutations. We have reinvestigated the use of the helper virus system described by Scheiflinger et al. [1] and adapted by Yao and Evans [2] which produces recombinants at a high frequency in the absence of any selection, at a rate of 6-100%. Our system uses fowlpox virus (FPV) as the infectious helper virus which in infected cells provides the enzymatic apparatus for transcription and replication of a purified, transfected VV genome and for recombination with a second transfected PCR generated DNA fragment. To optimize the system, a PCR DNA fragment was generated that contained poxvirus promoter driven gfp and lacZ genes inserted within the coding sequences of the viral thymidine kinase gene. This PCR fragment was co-transfected together with VV genomic DNA. Recombinant VV was identified by plaquing the mixture on cells non-permissive for FPV and selection of green fluorescent or LacZ positive recombinant vaccinia plaques. The system was optimized using FPV permissive cells (CEF) and non-permissive cells (A549, CV-1) for both the initial infection/transfection and the subsequent selection. Up to 70% of the progeny vaccinia virus contained the gfp/LacZ insertion. In order to test for the presence of FPV/VV intertypic recombinants or other unintended mutations, recombinant wtVV (RwtVV) was regenerated from the gfp/LacZ viruses and evaluated by RFLP analysis and pathogenesis in animals. While all RwtVVs were viable in cell culture, in many of the RwtVV isolates, RFLP differences were noted and while some recombinant viruses exhibited wild type behavior in mice, a wide range of virulence indicative of unintended changes suggests that mutants created by "rescue" systems require careful analysis particularly before use for in vivo studies employing animal models.
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Figure 1Infection/transfection scheme for generation of recombinant vaccinia virus. Cells are infected with fowlpox virus (FPV) and transfected with genomic vaccinia virus (VV) DNA ± a disrupted VV PCR fragment containing the desired mutation (lacZ or gfp). The resulting virus mixture is then plaqued on mammalian ...An Efficient Method for Generating Poxvirus Recombinants in the Absence of SelectionViruses. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 April 12.;3(3):217-232.
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