T7 RNA polymerase-dependent and -independent systems for cDNA-based rescue of Rift Valley fever virus

Journal of General Virology - Tập 89 Số 9 - Trang 2157-2166 - 2008
Matthias Habjan1, Nicola Penski1, Martin Spiegel1, Friedemann Weber1
1Abteilung Virologie, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universität Freiburg, D-79008 Freiburg, Germany

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Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is responsible for large and recurrent outbreaks of acute febrile illness among humans and domesticated animals in Africa. It belongs to the family Bunyaviridae, genus Phlebovirus, and its negative-stranded RNA genome consists of three segments. Here, we report the establishment and characterization of two different systems to rescue the RVFV wild-type strain ZH548. The first system is based on the BHK-21 cell clone BSR-T7/5, which stably expresses T7 RNA polymerase (T7 pol). Rescue of wild-type RVFV was achieved with three T7 pol-driven cDNA plasmids representing the viral RNA segments in the antigenomic sense. The second system involves 293T cells transfected with three RNA pol I-driven plasmids for the viral segments and two RNA pol II-driven support plasmids to express the viral polymerase components L and N. It is known that the 5′ triphosphate group of T7 pol transcripts strongly activates the antiviral interferon system via the intracellular RNA receptor RIG-I. Nonetheless, both the T7 pol and the pol I/II system were of similar efficiency. This was even true for the rescue of a RVFV mutant lacking the interferon antagonist nonstructural proteins. Further experiments demonstrated that the unresponsiveness of BHK-21 and BSR-T7/5 cells to T7 pol transcripts is most probably due to a deficiency in the RIG-I pathway. Our reverse genetics systems now enable us to manipulate the genome of RVFV and study its virulence mechanisms. Moreover, the finding that BHK-derived cell lines have a compromised RIG-I pathway may explain their suitability for propagating and rescuing a wide variety of viruses.

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Journal of General Virology

Tập 89 Số 9

2157-2166

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