Zhang L, Senkowski A, Shim B, Roos R P
Department of Neurology/MC2030, University of Chicago Medical Center, Illinois 60637.
J Virol. 1993 Jul;67(7):4404-8. doi: 10.1128/JVI.67.7.4404-4408.1993.
Strain GDVII and other members of the GDVII subgroup of Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus are highly neurovirulent and rapidly fatal, while strain DA and other members of the TO subgroup produce a chronic, demyelinating disease. GDVII/DA chimeric cDNA studies suggest that a major neurovirulence determinant is within the GDVII 1B through 1D capsid protein coding region, although the additional presence of upstream GDVII sequences, including the 5' untranslated region, contributes to full neurovirulence. Our studies indicate that there are limitations in precisely delineating neurovirulence determinants with chimeric cDNAs between evolutionarily diverged viruses, such as GDVII and DA.
泰勒氏小鼠脑脊髓炎病毒GDVII株及GDVII亚组的其他成员具有高度神经毒性且致死迅速,而DA株及TO亚组的其他成员则引发一种慢性脱髓鞘疾病。GDVII/DA嵌合cDNA研究表明,主要的神经毒性决定因素位于GDVII的衣壳蛋白编码区1B至1D内,尽管上游GDVII序列(包括5'非翻译区)的额外存在有助于实现完全神经毒性。我们的研究表明,在用进化上差异较大的病毒(如GDVII和DA)之间的嵌合cDNA精确描绘神经毒性决定因素方面存在局限性。