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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Li, Jixiang
• Li, Shubin
• Qiu, Ming
• Li, Xinshuai
• Li, Chen
• Feng, Binghui
• Lin, Hong
• Zheng, Wanglong
• Zhu, Jianzhong
• Chen, Nanhua

Titel

Minor and major envelope proteins of PRRSV play synergistic roles in inducing heterologous neutralizing antibodies and conferring cross protection

Ist Teil von

• Virus research, 2022-07, Vol.315, p.198789-198789, Article 198789

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Two chimeric PRRSV strains containing consensus sequences of ORF2-4 or ORF5-6 genes were generated.•These chimeric viruses had distinct in vitro and in vivo replication efficacy.•Pig inoculation of both chimeric viruses did not cause obvious clinical signs.•Both chimeric viruses could induce heterologous nAbs but only confer partial cross protection.•Minor and major envelope proteins probably have synergistic effects on inducing heterologous nAbs and conferring cross protection. High genetic diversity of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) isolates is a major obstacle for the development of effective PRRS vaccines. A chimeric highly pathogenic PRRSV2 (HP-PRRSV2) strain containing the consensus sequence of ORF2-6 genes was constructed in our previous study, which could induce broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) and confer satisfied cross protection against virulent NADC30-like isolate. To further elucidate the roles of minor and major envelope proteins encoded by ORF2-4 and ORF5-6 genes in conferring cross protection, two chimeric HP-PRRSV2 strains (rJS-ORF2-4-CON and rJS-ORF5-6-CON) containing consensus sequences of ORF2-4 or ORF5-6 were constructed and rescued in this study. The rJS-ORF5-6-CON strain has similar replication efficiency as the backbone HP-PRRSV2 rJSTZ1712-12 virus, while rJS-ORF2-4-CON has significantly lower in vitro and in vivo replication efficiency comparing to rJS-ORF5-6-CON. Animal inoculation indicated that both rJS-ORF2-4-CON and rJS-ORF5-6-CON did not cause obvious clinical signs in piglets and could induce heterologous nAbs after immunization. Challenge with a virulent heterologous NADC30-like SD17-38 isolate showed that even though both immunized groups presented lower viremia, faster virus elimination, less fever and alleviated lung gross lesions when compared with the only challenged pigs, rJS-ORF2-4-CON and rJS-ORF5-6-CON could not confer enough cross protection. Considering the bnAbs and satisfied cross protection induced by the chimeric virus containing ORF2-6 consensus sequence, our results support that minor and major envelope proteins play synergistic roles in inducing broader nAbs and conferring better cross protection.