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Molecular differences between two Jeryl Lynn mumps virus vaccine component strains, JL5 and JL2

Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, UK

Correspondence
Bert K. Rima
b.rima{at}qub.ac.uk

The Jeryl Lynn (JL) vaccine against mumps virus (MuV) contains two components, MuV^JL5 and MuV^JL2, which differ by over 400 nt. Due to the occurrence of bias in the direction of mutation, these differences and those found in nucleotide sequences of different isolates of the minor component in the vaccine (MuV^JL2) might be due to the effect of ADAR-like deaminases on MuV grown in tissue-cultured cells. A molecular clone of MuV^JL2 (pMuV^JL2) and MuV^JL2-specific helper plasmids were constructed in order to investigate molecular interactions between MuV^JL5 and MuV^JL2, to augment the existing molecular clone of MuV^JL5 (pMuV^JL5) and MuV^JL5-specific helper plasmids. Genome and mRNA termini of MuV^JL2 were characterized, and an unusual oligo-G insertion transcriptional editing event was detected near the F mRNA polyadenylation site of MuV^JL2, but not of MuV^JL5. Genes encoding glycoproteins of rMuV^JL2 and rMuV^JL5 have been exchanged to characterize the oligo-G insertion, which associated with the specific sequence of the F gene of MuV^JL2 and not with any other genes or the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of strain MuV^JL2. The results indicate that a single G-to-A sequence change obliterates the co-transcriptional editing of the F mRNA and that this oligo-G insertion does not affect the growth of the virus.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the final consensus full-length sequence of Jeryl Lynn mumps virus sub-strain JL2 genomic RNA is FN431985.