Attenuation of a vaccine strain of vaccinia virus via inactivation of interferon viroceptor

The Journal of Gene Medicine
Béla DénesIstván Fodor

Abstract

Interferons (IFNs) play an important role in host antiviral responses, but viruses, including vaccinia viruses (VV), employ mechanisms to disrupt IFN activities, and these viral mechanisms are often associated with their virulence. Here, we explore an attenuation strategy with a vaccine strain of VV lacking a virus-encoded IFN-gamma receptor homolog (viroceptor). To facilitate the monitoring of virus properties, first we constructed a Lister vaccine strain derivative VV-RG expressing optical reporters. Further, we constructed a VV-RG derivative, VV-RG8, which lacks the IFN-gammaR viroceptor (B8R gene product). Replication, immunological and pathogenic properties of the constructed strains were compared. Viruses did not show significant differences in humoral and cellular immune responses of immune-competent mice. Replication of constructed viruses was efficient both in vitro and in vivo, but showed marked difference in kinetics of propagation. In cultured CV-1 epithelial cells, the VV-RG8 strain retained the propagation potential of the parental virus, while, in the C6 glial cells, significant delay was observed in the kinetics of the VV-RG8 replication cycle compared to VV-RG. The pathogenesis of the viruses was tested by surv...Continue Reading

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