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Animal: DNA Viruses |
Laboratoire de Pathologie Comparée, UMR 5087 INRA/CNRS/Université de Montpellier II, 30380 Saint Christol les Alès, France1
Author for correspondence: Miguel López Ferber. Fax +33 4 66 52 46 99. e-mail lopez{at}ales.inra.fr
During plaque purification of Spodoptera littoralis nucleopolyhedrovirus in S. littoralis Sl52 cell culture, a deletion mutant virus was isolated. Analysis of the biological properties of this mutant virus revealed an absence of per os infectivity of the occluded virus. Infectivity by injection of the non-occluded (budded) virus is not different between the wild-type and the deleted virus. Restriction analysis of the mutant virus genome revealed a 4·5 kb deletion within the NotI D fragment. The observed phenotype was mapped to the deleted region by rescue experiments. The deletion was characterized and the equivalent DNA fragment on the wild-type virus was sequenced. By co-transfecting the DNA of the deleted virus with plasmids derived from the wild-type virus, it was possible to determine that ORF 7 in this fragment is responsible for the observed phenotype. ORF 7, called pif (per os infectivity factor), is homologous to ORF 119 of Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus. Similar ORFs are present in all sequenced baculoviruses. The product of this gene is an occlusion body-derived virion structural protein required only for the first steps of larva infection, as viruses being produced in cells expressing the gene but not containing it in their genomes are able to produce successful infections.
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