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Polymerase Fidelity Contributes to Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Pathogenicity and Transmissibility In Vivo

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作者： Li, Chen 1 ; Shi, Jiabao 1 ; Wang, Haiwei 1 ; Rivera-Serrano, Efrain E. 2 ; Yang, Decheng 1 ; Zhou, Guohui 1 ; Sun, Ch 1 ;

作者机构： 1.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Harbin Vet Res Inst, State Key Lab Vet Biotechnol, Div Livestock Infect Dis, Harbin, Peoples R China

2.Univ N Carolina, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA

3.Shandong Acad Agr Sci, Inst Anim Sci and Vet Med, Shandong Key Lab Anim Dis Control & Breeding, Jinan, Peoples R China

关键词： foot-and-mouth disease virus; RdRp; attenuation; polymerase fidelity; transmissibility

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY （ 影响因子：5.103； 五年影响因子：5.078 ）

ISSN： 0022-538X

年卷期： 2021 年 95 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： The low fidelity of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase allows FMDV to exhibit high genetic diversity. Previously, we showed that the genetic diversity of FMDV plays an important role in virulence in suckling mice. Here, we mutated the amino acid residue Phe257, located in the finger domain of FMDV polymerase and conserved across FMDV serotypes, to a cysteine (F257C) to study the relationship between viral genetic diversity, virulence, and transmissibility in natural hosts. The single amino acid substitution in FMDV polymerase resulted in a high-fidelity virus variant, rF257C, with growth kinetics indistinguishable from those of wild-type (WT) virus in cell culture, but it displayed smaller plaques and impaired fitness in direct competition assays. Furthermore, we found that rF257C was attenuated in vivo in both suckling mice and pigs (one of its natural hosts). Importantly, contact exposure experiments showed that the rF257C virus exhibited reduced transmissibility compared to that of wild-type FMDV in the porcine model. This study provides evidence that FMDV genetic diversity is important for viral virulence and transmissibility in susceptible animals. Given that type O FMDV exhibits the highest genetic diversity among all seven serotypes of FMDV, we propose that the lower polymerase fidelity of the type O FMDV could contribute to its dominance worldwide. IMPORTANCE Among the seven serotypes of FMDV, serotype O FMDV have the broadest distribution worldwide, which could be due to their high virulence and transmissibility induced by high genetic diversity. In this paper, we generated a single amino acid substitution FMDV variant with a high-fidelity polymerase associated with viral fitness, virulence, and transmissibility in a natural host. The results highlight that maintenance of viral population diversity is essential for interhost viral spread. This study provides evidence that higher genetic diversity of type O FMDV could increase both virulence and transmissibility, thus leading to their dominance in the global epidemic.

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