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Early pathogenesis of Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus and Helicoverpa zea single nucleopolyhedrovirus in Heliothis virescens: a comparison of the ‘M’ and ‘S’ strategies for establishing fatal infection

James F. Wong^2,

¹ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 251 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA
² DuPont Agricultural Products, Stine-Haskell Research Center, PO Box 30, Elkton Road, Newark, DE 19714, USA

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Jan Washburn
janwash{at}nature.berkeley.edu

Nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPVs) (Baculoviridae) produce fatal infections in larval lepidopteran insects. NPVs are designated SNPVs or MNPVs based on whether the occlusion-derived virus (ODV) that initiates primary midgut infections contains single (S) or multiple (M) nucleocapsids. The principal consequence of this ODV packaging is that primary target cells infected with the M phenotype receive multiple nucleocapsids, whereas those infected by the S phenotype receive only one. To determine the biological significance of this difference in the initial infection strategy, a comparison of the primary and secondary infection patterns of the recombinants Helicoverpa zea SNPV (HzSNPV-hsp70/lacZ) and Autographa californica MNPV (AcMNPV-hsp70/lacZ) in orally inoculated larvae of Heliothis virescens was carried out. At dosages yielding similar final mortalities (85 %), primary midgut infections by HzSNPV-hsp70/lacZ (indicated by lacZ expression) were observed 6 h earlier and in greater numbers than those generated by AcMNPV-hsp70/lacZ. Infection of secondary target cells in the tracheal epidermis, however, occurred at the same time and at the same rate for both NPVs. A 2 h delay was observed between the onset of primary and secondary AcMNPV-hsp70/lacZ infection, supporting the hypothesis that early tracheal infections were initiated by ODV nucleocapsids repackaged as budded virus. In contrast, an 8 h delay was observed with HzSNPV-hsp70/lacZ, suggesting that systemic infections were established only after virus replication in primary targets. Significant numbers of both MNPV- and SNPV-infected primary target cells were sloughed from the midgut beginning as early as 16 h post-infection. Midgut cell sloughing may be an important host-mediated selection pressure influencing the evolution of NPV morphology and gene regulation, shaping, in part, baculovirus infection strategies.

Published ahead of print on 15 November 2002 as DOI 10·1099/vir.0·18701-0.

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