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J Gen Virol 86 (2005), 2685-2695; DOI 10.1099/vir.0.81094-0

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High-level expression of biologically active bovine alpha interferon by Bovine herpesvirus 1 interferes only marginally with recombinant virus replication in vitro

Constanze Höhle1, Axel Karger1, Patricia König2, Katrin Giesow1 and Günther M. Keil1

1 Institute of Molecular Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Boddenblick 5A, 17493 Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
2 Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Boddenblick 5A, 17493 Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

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Günther M. Keil
guenther.keil{at}fli.bund.de

An artificial open reading frame (ORF) for bovine alpha interferon (boIFN-{alpha}) with the codon preference of Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) glycoprotein B was constructed to assess the effect of expression of boIFN-{alpha} by BHV-1 from an expression cassette. Transient expression of the ORF revealed that transfected cells secreted substantial amounts of biologically active boIFN-{alpha}, which moderately inhibited replication of BHV-1 after stimulation of bovine cells with 104 U ml–1. The boIFN-{alpha}-encoding expression cassette was recombined into the glycoprotein E locus of the glycoprotein E-negative BHV-1 vaccine strain GKD. Cells infected with the resulting recombinant BHV-1/boIFN-{alpha} secreted up to 107 U boIFN-{alpha} per ml cell culture supernatant, which is about 40- to more than 100-fold the activity reached with other virus expression systems. Bioassays demonstrated that the BHV-1-expressed interferon induced a rapid and sustained antiviral state in stimulated bovine cells. Analysis of the in vitro growth properties of the recombinant revealed, depending on the cell line used, no or only slight inhibition in direct spreading from cell to cell and a modest delay in virus egress from infected cells. Final titres, however, were comparable to those reached by the parent strain. Penetration into cells was not affected. The results from this study demonstrate that BHV-1/boIFN-{alpha} expresses high levels of boIFN-{alpha}, grows to high titres in cell culture and thus represents a potential alternative means to deliver endogenously produced boIFN-{alpha} in situ for a period of time.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number of the boIFN-{alpha} ORF sequence is AJ784928.




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