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Assignment of avian reovirus temperature-sensitive mutant recombination groups E, F, and G to genome segments.

ABSTRACT: Avian reoviruses (ARV) are less well understood than their mammalian counterparts. ARV are ubiquitous in commercial poultry and frequently isolated from acutely infected chickens. We previously described isolation of ARV temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants after nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis of wild-type ARV138, their assignment to 7 recombination groups (A-G), and genetic mapping of mutants in groups A-D to specific gene segments. For this study, wild-type serotype ARV176 was crossed with ts mutants tsE158 (Group E), tsF206 (Group F), or tsG247 (Group G) and reassortant progenies analyzed. Reassortant temperature-sensitivities were determined by efficiency of plating at permissive and non-permissive temperatures. Mapping results indicated tsE158, tsF206, and tsG247 mapped to the L1, S4, and L3 genes, respectively, which encode the lambdaA core shell, sigmaNS non-structural, and lambdaC core spike proteins, respectively. Specific amino acid substitutions in each mutant were determined and locations of structural protein alterations were placed within the 3-dimensional structure of homologous mammalian reovirus proteins. Mapping recombination groups E-G marks completion of gene assignments for all seven ts mutant groups previously generated.

SUBMITTER: Tran AT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5123876 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Assignment of avian reovirus temperature-sensitive mutant recombination groups E, F, and G to genome segments.

Tran Anh T AT Xu Wanhong W Racine Trina T Silaghi D Alex DA Coombs Kevin M KM

Virology 20080318 2

Avian reoviruses (ARV) are less well understood than their mammalian counterparts. ARV are ubiquitous in commercial poultry and frequently isolated from acutely infected chickens. We previously described isolation of ARV temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants after nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis of wild-type ARV138, their assignment to 7 recombination groups (A-G), and genetic mapping of mutants in groups A-D to specific gene segments. For this study, wild-type serotype ARV176 was crossed with ts muta ...[more]

PMID: 18353422

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