Construction of an infectious cDNA clone of Tembusu virus isolated from breeder Peking ducks

正Dear Editor,Since April 2010,an outbreak of a new disease has elicited symptoms of high fever,loss of appetite,and reduction in egg production in layer ducks in eastern China;this phenomenon has now spread throughout China(Cao et al.,2011;Su et al.,2011).The causative agent of the disease was identified as Tembusu virus(TMUV),which was classified into the genus Flavivirus,     

Towards a coherent nomenclature of plant viruses

正The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses(ICTV)has the decree to set the rules for the classification and naming of viruses.The species is the lowest level considered in the taxonomic hierarchy.In general,virus species are named according to the structure"isolation hostsymptomsand the word‘virus’".A typical example is Tobacco mosaic virus[Genus:To-     

Epidemiologic interference of virus populations

Summary There are a few simulation studies for interference models in the literature but the present paper discusses an analytical model for the competition of two interfering virus populations in a community. The mathematical model consist of eight coupled differential equations which have up to four equilibrium points. Criteria for local stability are given.This paper has been read at the workshop on Nonlinear Models in Biology and Medicine, 23rd Biometric Colloquium, German Region of the Biometric Society, Nuremberg, March 1977     

芝麻病毒病病原研究——Ⅰ.芝麻矮化坏死病害的鉴定

在湖北武昌芝麻上分离到的矮化坏死分离物(DNe-I)侵染芝麻引起严重矮化,叶片皱缩坏死。它能够摩擦接种侵染7科14种植物。在苋色藜、千日红上引起局部坏死斑,侵染油菜和百日菊引起系统花叶和黄化。DNe-I能够被桃蚜、花生蚜以非持久性方式进行传播。病毒体外稳定性状:存活期4天,钝化温度60～65℃,稀释限点4×10~(-4)。提纯病毒为线状粒体,长度为770nm。病毒外壳蛋自为单一亚基组成,分子量为30,700±600D。制备抗血清微量沉淀法测定其效价为1:256。在油菜病组织中,观察到风轮状及长直片层叠聚体类型的胞质内含体。在血清学性质上,该分离物与芜菁花叶病毒密切相关,与花生轻斑驳病毒和花生斑驳病毒弱相关,与大豆花叶病毒和西瓜花叶病毒不相关。基于上述性质,DNe-I被鉴定为芜菁花叶病毒。这是国内芜菁花叶病毒自然侵染芝麻的首次报道。     

广东省烟草花叶病病原病毒的鉴定

烟草花叶病是广东省产烟区的主要病害之一。我们在南雄等八个县进行调查,1983年至1984年的一般发病率为2～20％。根据血清学反应、病毒粒体形态、鉴别寄主反应及寄主范围、媒介昆虫种类、物理性质、交互保护反应等各项检验结果,鉴定广东省烟草花叶病病原是:三个黄瓜花叶病毒可能株系(普通株系CMV-C,烟草坏死株系CMV-TN,烟草黄色坏死株系(CMV-TYN),烟草花叶病毒(TMV),马铃薯病毒Y(PVY),烟草脉带花叶病毒(TVBMV)和烟草褪绿斑驳病毒(TCMV)(暂定)。     

Occurrence and distribution of viruses infecting potato in Russia

Potato viral disease has been a major problem in potato production worldwide including Russia. Here, we detected Potato Virus M (PVM), P (PVP), S (PVS), Y (PVY), and X (PVX) and Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV) by RT-PCR on potato leaves and tubers from the Northwestern (NW), Volga (VF), and Far Eastern (FE) federal districts of Russia. Each sample was co-infected with up to five viruses. RT-PCR disclosed all six viruses in NW, three in VF, and five in FE. Phylogenetic analyses of PVM and PVS strains resolved all PVM isolates in Group O (ordinary) and all PVS isolates in Group O. Seven PVY strains were detected, and they included only recombinants. PVY recombinants were thus the dominant potato virus strains in Russia, although they widely varied among the regions. Our research provides insights into the geographical distribution and genetic variability of potato viruses in Russia.     

黑龙江省及长春市烟草病毒病的种类鉴定

１９９１－１９９３年在黑龙江省主要烟区的１１个县及长春市采样,得１２９个毒株。经鉴别寄主测定,抗血清反应（板式酶联法或斑点酶联法）及电镜或免疫电镜观察,有ＴＭＶ（４３．４％）,ＰＶＹ（１７．８％）,ＣＭＶ（３．９％）,ＴＲＶ（０．８％）,ＴＳＷＶ等病毒,ＴＭＶ与ＰＶＹ混合侵染的占１０．１％,ＰＶＹ与其它病毒混合侵染的占１１．６％,另有５个标样为马铃薯Ｙ病毒组成员,１０个为未知。     

Influenza Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase Membrane Glycoproteins

Considerable progress has been made toward understanding the structural basis of the interaction of the two major surface glycoproteins of influenza A virus with their common ligand/substrate: carbohydrate chains terminating in sialic acid. The specificity of virus attachment to target cells is mediated by hemagglutinin, which acquires characteristic changes in its receptor-binding site to switch its host from avian species to humans. Anti-influenza drugs mimic the natural sialic acid substrate of the virus neuraminidase enzyme but utilize the much tighter binding of the drugs for efficacy. Resistance to one of the two main antiviral drugs is differentially acquired by the two distinct subsets of neuraminidase as a consequence of structural differences in the enzyme active site between the two phylogenetic groups.     

小麦土传病毒在感病小麦细胞中的分布及小麦梭条斑花叶病毒RNA组分

四川雅安、陕西长安的土传小麦病毒病由小麦梭条斑花叶病毒(WSSMV)引起,而浙江安吉、新昌、江苏宜兴的病害则由WSSMV和土传小麦花叶病毒(SBWMV)所致。WSSMV和SBWMV可以同时复合侵染同一株小麦,但在病细胞中二者彼此独立分布。我国WSSMV RNA有2个基因组,分子量分别为2.6×10~6和1.5×10~6,与日本小麦黄花叶病毒(WYMV)一致。     

Histopathology of Porcine kobuvirus in Chinese piglets

<正>Dear Editor,Kobuvirus,classified as a new genus within the Picornaviridae family in 1999,is a non-enveloped virus with single-stranded,positive-sense genomic RNA(Pringle,1999).This genus contains 3 species currently recoganized:Aichivirus A(Ai V),Aichivirus B(BKo V),and Aichivirus C(PKo V).PKo V was first detected in fecal     

植物病毒载体在植病互作研究中的应用

在植物与病原菌互作的研究中,植物抗性基因和病原菌无毒基因的研究是两个重要的热点。利用植物病毒沉默载体构建的VIGS(Virus Induced Gene Silencing)体系研究植物的防御机制;利用植物病毒表达载体克隆和研究病原菌的无毒基因,将使我们更深刻地理解植物和病原菌互作的分子机理,最终为培育番茄白粉病持久抗性品种打下理论基础。对植物病毒载体的研究进行了综述并就我们承担的课题进行了讨论。     

Spectrum of Newcastle disease virus stability in gradients of temperature and pH

Newcastle disease (ND) is one of the highly pathogenic viral diseases of avian species. The disease is endemic in many developing countries where agriculture serves as the primary source of national income. Newcastle disease virus (NDV) belongs to the family Paramyxoviridae and is well characterized member among the avian paramyxovirus serotypes. The failure of vaccination is one of the major causes of NDV outbreaks in field condition. The present study gives a brief picture about the biology of NDV genome and its proteins under different conditions of temperature and pH. Our results indicate that the NDV is non-infective above 42 °C and unstable above 72 °C. The study will be useful in defining an optimum storage condition for NDV without causing any deterioration in its viability.     

Highly Conserved Residues in the Helical Domain of Dengue Virus Type 1 Precursor Membrane Protein Are Involved in Assembly,Precursor Membrane (prM) Protein Cleavage,and Entry

The envelope and precursor membrane (prM) proteins of dengue virus (DENV) are present on the surface of immature virions. During maturation, prM protein is cleaved by furin protease into pr peptide and membrane (M) protein. Although previous studies mainly focusing on the pr region have identified several residues important for DENV replication, the functional role of M protein, particularly the α-helical domain (MH), which is predicted to undergo a large conformational change during maturation, remains largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the role of nine highly conserved MH domain residues in the replication cycle of DENV by site-directed mutagenesis in a DENV1 prME expression construct and found that alanine substitutions introduced to four highly conserved residues at the C terminus and one at the N terminus of the MH domain greatly affect the production of both virus-like particles and replicon particles. Eight of the nine alanine mutants affected the entry of replicon particles, which correlated with the impairment in prM cleavage. Moreover, seven mutants were found to have reduced prM-E interaction at low pH, which may inhibit the formation of smooth immature particles and exposure of prM cleavage site during maturation, thus contributing to inefficient prM cleavage. Taken together, these results are the first report showing that highly conserved MH domain residues, located at 20–38 amino acids downstream from the prM cleavage site, can modulate the prM cleavage, maturation of particles, and virus entry. The highly conserved nature of these residues suggests potential targets of antiviral strategy.     

Early molecular events during the interaction of enveloped riboviruses with cells

A kinetic model was constructed and partly solved to describe the migration of the fluorescence label 1,6-diphenylhexatriene (DPH) in both directions when enveloped viruses, labelled with DPH in their envelopes are in contact with unlabelled cells or cell labelled in their membranes are in contact with unlabelled enveloped viruses. The central assumption is that two types of receptor sites exist on the cell surface, i.e., physical adsorption sites (P-sites), available to all the viruses studied in these papers and binding sites (B-sites) available only to the viruses which penetrate into the specific cells.The differential equations for the label migration, for different values of the ratio number of viruses number of sites were numerically solved, assuming different fractions of P- and B-sites.The equations also describe, appropriately the mechanism of rapid label migration in the system and substantiate the magnitude time of residence of the nonpenetrating viruses adsorbed on the cell surface. The resulting curves match satisfactorily those for the label release by the viruses and account well for the steady state values of the kinetics of label migration in the virus-cell system.     

Modulation of Triglyceride and Cholesterol Ester Synthesis Impairs Assembly of Infectious Hepatitis C Virus

In hepatitis C virus infection, replication of the viral genome and virion assembly are linked to cellular metabolic processes. In particular, lipid droplets, which store principally triacylglycerides (TAGs) and cholesterol esters (CEs), have been implicated in production of infectious virus. Here, we examine the effect on productive infection of triacsin C and YIC-C8-434, which inhibit synthesis of TAGs and CEs by targeting long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase and acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase, respectively. Our results present high resolution data on the acylglycerol and cholesterol ester species that were affected by the compounds. Moreover, triacsin C, which blocks both triglyceride and cholesterol ester synthesis, cleared most of the lipid droplets in cells. By contrast, YIC-C8-434, which only abrogates production of cholesterol esters, induced an increase in size of droplets. Although both compounds slightly reduced viral RNA synthesis, they significantly impaired assembly of infectious virions in infected cells. In the case of triacsin C, reduced stability of the viral core protein, which forms the virion nucleocapsid and is targeted to the surface of lipid droplets, correlated with lower virion assembly. In addition, the virus particles that were released from cells had reduced specific infectivity. YIC-C8-434 did not alter the association of core with lipid droplets but appeared to decrease production of infectious virus particles, suggesting a block in virion assembly. Thus, the compounds have antiviral properties, indicating that targeting synthesis of lipids stored in lipid droplets might be an option for therapeutic intervention in treating chronic hepatitis C virus infection.