The 135 Gene of Goatpox Virus Encodes an Inhibitor of NF-kappa B and Apoptosis and May Serve as an Improved Insertion Site To Generate Vectored Live Vaccine

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第一作者： Zhang, Minmin

作者： Zhang, Minmin;Sun, Yirui;Chen, Weiye;Bu, Zhigao;Bu, Zhigao

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关键词： GTPV 135; NF-kappa B pathway; apoptosis; viral vector

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY （ 影响因子：5.103； 五年影响因子：5.078 ）

ISSN： 0022-538X

年卷期： 2018 年 92 卷 18 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Goatpox virus (GTPV) is an important member of the Capripoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae. Capripoxviruses have large and complex DNA genomes encoding many unknown proteins that may contribute to virulence. We identified that the 135 open reading frame of GTPV is an early gene that encodes an similar to 18-kDa protein that is nonessential for viral replication in cells. This protein functioned as an inhibitor of NF-kappa B activation and apoptosis and is similar to the N1L protein of vaccinia virus. In the natural host, sheep, deletion of the 135 gene from the GTPV live vaccine strain AV41 resulted in less attenuation than that induced by deletion of the tk gene, a well-defined nonessential gene in the poxvirus genome. Using the 135 gene as the insertion site, a recombinant AV41 strain expressing hemagglutinin of peste des petits ruminants virus ( PPRV) was generated and elicited stronger neutralization antibody responses than those obtained using the traditional tk gene as the insertion site. These results suggest that the 135 gene of GTPV encodes an immunomodulatory protein to suppress host innate immunity and may serve as an optimized insertion site to generate capripoxvirus-vectored live dual vaccines. IMPORTANCE Capripoxviruses are etiological agents of important diseases in sheep, goats, and cattle. There are rare reports about viral protein function related to capripoxviruses. In the present study, we found that the 135 protein of GTPV plays an important role in inhibition of innate immunity and apoptosis in host cells. Use of the 135 gene as the insertion site to generate a vectored vaccine resulted in stronger adaptive immune responses than those obtained using the tk locus as the insertion site. As capripoxviruses are promising virus-vectored vaccines against many important diseases in small ruminants and cattle, the 135 gene may serve as an improved insertion site to generate recombinant capripoxvirus-vectored live dual vaccines.

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