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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2013, Vol. 12 Issue (5): 877-883    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(13)60258-0
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Rapid Recovery of Classical Swine Fever Virus Directly from Cloned cDNA
 HUANG Jun-hua, LI Yong-feng, HE Fan, LI Dan, SUN Yuan, HAN Wen , QIU Hua-ji
Division of Swine Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150001, P.R.China
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摘要  The reverse genetics for classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is currently based on the transfection of in vitro transcribed RNA from a viral genomic cDNA clone, which is inefficient and time-consuming. This study was aimed to develop an improved method for rapid recovery of CSFV directly from cloned cDNA. Full-length genomic cDNA from the CSFV Shimen strain, which was flanked by a T7 promoter, the hepatitis delta virus ribozyme and T7 terminator sequences, was cloned into the lowcopy vector pOK12, producing pOKShimen-RzT . Direct transfection of pOKShimen-RzT into PK/T7 cells, a PK-15- derived cell line stably expressing bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase, allowed CSFV to be rescued rapidly and efficiently, i.e., at least 12 h faster and 31.6-fold greater viral titer when compared with the in vitro transcription-based rescue system. Furthermore, the progeny virus rescued from PK/T7 cells was indistinguishable, both in vitro and in vivo, from its parent virus and the virus rescued from classical reverse genetics. The reverse genetics based on intracellular transcription is efficient, convenient and cost-effective. The PK/T7 cell line can be used to rescue CSFV directly from cloned cDNA and it can also be used as an intracellular transcription and expression system for studying the structure and function of viral genes.

Abstract  The reverse genetics for classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is currently based on the transfection of in vitro transcribed RNA from a viral genomic cDNA clone, which is inefficient and time-consuming. This study was aimed to develop an improved method for rapid recovery of CSFV directly from cloned cDNA. Full-length genomic cDNA from the CSFV Shimen strain, which was flanked by a T7 promoter, the hepatitis delta virus ribozyme and T7 terminator sequences, was cloned into the lowcopy vector pOK12, producing pOKShimen-RzT . Direct transfection of pOKShimen-RzT into PK/T7 cells, a PK-15- derived cell line stably expressing bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase, allowed CSFV to be rescued rapidly and efficiently, i.e., at least 12 h faster and 31.6-fold greater viral titer when compared with the in vitro transcription-based rescue system. Furthermore, the progeny virus rescued from PK/T7 cells was indistinguishable, both in vitro and in vivo, from its parent virus and the virus rescued from classical reverse genetics. The reverse genetics based on intracellular transcription is efficient, convenient and cost-effective. The PK/T7 cell line can be used to rescue CSFV directly from cloned cDNA and it can also be used as an intracellular transcription and expression system for studying the structure and function of viral genes.
Keywords:  classical swine fever virus       reverse genetics       T7 RNA polymerase       stable cell line  
Received: 11 May 2012   Accepted:
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This study was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2005CB523202).

Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence QIU Hua-ji, E-mail: huajiqiu@hvri.ac.cn     E-mail:  huajiqiu@hvri.ac.cn
About author:  HUANG Jun-hua, E-mail: jhhuang@ymail.com

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HUANG Jun-hua, LI Yong-feng, HE Fan, LI Dan, SUN Yuan, HAN Wen , QIU Hua-ji. 2013. Rapid Recovery of Classical Swine Fever Virus Directly from Cloned cDNA. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 12(5): 877-883.

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