Incorporation of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Replicons into Virus-Like Particles by a Packaging Cell Line
AUTOR(ES)
Gehrke, Rainer
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
RNA replicons derived from flavivirus genomes show considerable potential as gene transfer and immunization vectors. A convenient and efficient encapsidation system is an important prerequisite for the practical application of such vectors. In this work, tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus replicons and an appropriate packaging cell line were constructed and characterized. A stable CHO cell line constitutively expressing the two surface proteins prM/M and E (named CHO-ME cells) was generated and shown to efficiently export mature recombinant subviral particles (RSPs). When replicon NdΔME lacking the prM/M and E genes was introduced into CHO-ME cells, virus-like particles (VLPs) capable of initiating a single round of infection were released, yielding titers of up to 5 × 107/ml in the supernatant of these cells. Another replicon (NdΔCME) lacking the region encoding most of the capsid protein C in addition to proteins prM/M and E was not packaged by CHO-ME cells. As observed with other flavivirus replicons, both TBE virus replicons appeared to exert no cytopathic effect on their host cells. Sedimentation analysis revealed that the NdΔME-containing VLPs were physically distinct from RSPs and similar to infectious virions. VLPs could be repeatedly passaged in CHO-ME cells but maintained the property of being able to initiate only a single round of infection in other cells during these passages. CHO-ME cells can thus be used both as a source for mature TBE virus RSPs and as a safe and convenient replicon packaging cell line, providing the TBE virus surface proteins prM/M and E in trans.
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