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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
卷 92, 期 -, 页码 831-840出版社
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.027185-0
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- [SAF2008-04232]
- [FIS-PI71310]
- [FAU2008-00006]
- [NADIR-UE-228394]
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus responsible (or epidemics of febrile illness, meningitis, encephalitis and flaccid paralysis. WNV gains entry into host cells through endocytosis. The acid pH inside endosomes triggers rapid conformational rearrangements of the flavivirus envelope (E) glycoprotein that result in fusion of the endosomal membrane with the virion envelope. Conformational rearrangements of the E glycoprotein can be induced by acid exposure in solution in the absence of target membranes, thus causing a loss of infectivity. Following a genetic approach to study this process, a WNV mutant with increased resistance to acid-induced inactivation was isolated and its complete genome was sequenced. A single amino acid substitution, T701, in the E glycoprotein was found to be responsible for the increased acid resistance, which was linked to an increase in the sensitivity of infection to the chemical rise of endosomal pH, suggesting that the mutant required a more acid pH inside the endosomes for fusion. No alterations in viral infection kinetics, plaque size or induced mortality rates in mice of the mutant were noted. However, by means of virus competition assays, a reduction in viral fitness under standard culture conditions was observed for the mutant. These results provide new evidence of the adaptive flexibility to environmental factors pH variation in this case of WNV populations. Implications of the T701 replacement on the E glycoprotein structure function relationship are discussed.
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