DVP/Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
J Virol. 2011 Jun;85(12):6082-5. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02686-10. Epub 2011 Apr 6.
Deletion of the small hydrophobic (SH) protein of certain paramyxoviruses has been found to result in attenuation, suggesting that the SH protein is a virulence factor. To investigate the role of the mumps virus (MuV) SH protein in virulence, multiple stop codons were introduced into the open reading frame (ORF) of a MuV molecular clone (r88-1961(SHstop)), preserving genome structure but precluding production of the SH protein. No differences in neurovirulence were seen between the wild-type and the SH(stop) viruses. In contrast, upon deletion of the SH gene, significant neuroattenuation was observed. These data indicate that the MuV SH protein is not a neurovirulence factor and highlight the importance of distinguishing gene deletion effects from protein-specific effects.
某些副黏病毒的小疏水 (SH) 蛋白缺失已被发现会导致减毒,表明 SH 蛋白是一种毒力因子。为了研究腮腺炎病毒 (MuV) SH 蛋白在毒力中的作用,在 MuV 分子克隆 (r88-1961(SHstop)) 的开放阅读框 (ORF) 中引入了多个终止密码子,从而保留了基因组结构,但阻止了 SH 蛋白的产生。野生型和 SH(stop)病毒在神经毒力方面没有差异。相比之下,当 SH 基因缺失时,观察到明显的神经减毒作用。这些数据表明 MuV SH 蛋白不是神经毒力因子,并强调了区分基因缺失效应和蛋白特异性效应的重要性。