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Phosphoprotein Gene of Wild-Type Rabies Virus Plays a Role in Limiting Viral Pathogenicity and Lowering the Enhancement of BBB Permeability.


ABSTRACT: Enhancement of blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability is necessary for clearing virus in the central nervous system (CNS). It has been reported that only laboratory-attenuated rabies virus (RABV) induces inflammatory response to lead BBB transient breakdown rather than wild-type (wt) strains. As a component of ribonucleoprotein (RNP), phosphoprotein (P) of RABV plays a key role in viral replication and pathogenicity. To our knowledge, the function of RABV P gene during RABV invasion was unclear so far. In order to determine the role of RABV P gene during RABV infection, we evaluated the BBB permeability in vivo after infection with wt RABV strain (GD-SH-01), a lab-attenuated RABV strain (HEP-Flury), and a chimeric RABV strain (rHEP-SH-P) whose P gene cloned from GD-SH-01 was expressed in the genomic backbone of HEP-Flury. We found that rHEP-SH-P caused less enhancement of BBB permeability and was less pathogenic to adult mice than GD-SH-01 and HEP-Flury. In an effort to investigate the mechanism, we found that the replication of rHEP-SH-P has been limited due to the suppressed P protein expression and induced less response to maintain BBB integrity. Our data indicated that the P gene of wt RABV was a potential determinant in hampering viral replication in vivo, which kept BBB integrity. These findings provided an important foundation for understanding the viral invasion and development of novel vaccine.

SUBMITTER: Long T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7045047 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Phosphoprotein Gene of Wild-Type Rabies Virus Plays a Role in Limiting Viral Pathogenicity and Lowering the Enhancement of BBB Permeability.

Long Teng T   Zhang Boyue B   Fan Ruqi R   Wu Yuting Y   Mo Meijun M   Luo Jun J   Chang Yiran Y   Tian Qin Q   Mei Mingzhu M   Jiang He H   Luo Yongwen Y   Guo Xiaofeng X  

Frontiers in microbiology 20200220


Enhancement of blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability is necessary for clearing virus in the central nervous system (CNS). It has been reported that only laboratory-attenuated rabies virus (RABV) induces inflammatory response to lead BBB transient breakdown rather than wild-type (wt) strains. As a component of ribonucleoprotein (RNP), phosphoprotein (P) of RABV plays a key role in viral replication and pathogenicity. To our knowledge, the function of RABV P gene during RABV invasion was unclear  ...[more]

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