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Construction and application of chimeric virus-like particles of tick-borne encephalitis virus and mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus Free

Abstract

We have previously reported a system for packaging tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus subgenomic replicon RNAs into single-round infectious virus-like particles (VLPs) by using expression of viral C/prM/E structural proteins. In this study, the -packaging system was applied to the generation of chimeric VLPs with mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus. Although -expression of TBE virus C and JE virus prM/E proteins resulted in the secretion of VLPs, the expression of JE virus C/prM/E proteins did not lead to the secretion of VLPs, suggesting that homologous interaction between C and non-structural proteins or the genomic RNA is important for efficient assembly of infectious particles. Neutralization testing showed that the antigenic characteristics of the VLPs were similar to those of the native virus. Furthermore, the infectivities of the TBE virus- and JE virus-enveloped VLPs for the ISE6 tick cell line and C6/36 mosquito cell line were investigated. The VLPs were able to enter only those cells that were derived from the natural vectors for the respective viruses. TBE virus replicon RNA packaged in VLPs produced TBE virus non-structural proteins in tick cells, but could neither replicate nor produce viral proteins in mosquito cells. These findings indicate the importance of specific cellular factors for virus entry and replication during flavivirus infection of arthropods. These results demonstrate that chimeric VLPs are useful tools for the study of viral genome packaging and cellular factors involved in vector specificity, with the additional safety aspect that these chimeric VLPs can be used instead of full-length chimeric viruses.

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Construction and application of chimeric virus-like particles of tick-borne encephalitis virus and mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus
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