In Vitro Characteristics of Cyprinid Herpesvirus 2: Effect of Kidney Extract Supplementation on Growth
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Vol. 115: 223–232, 2015 DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS Published August 20 doi: 10.3354/dao02885 Dis Aquat Org In vitro characteristics of cyprinid herpesvirus 2: effect of kidney extract supplementation on growth Tomoya Shibata1, Azusa Nanjo1, Masato Saito1, Keisuke Yoshii1, Takafumi Ito2, Teruyuki Nakanishi3, Takashi Sakamoto1, Motohiko Sano1,* 1Faculty of Marine Science, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan 2Aquatic Animal Health Division, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Fisheries Research Agency, Tamaki, Mie 519-0423, Japan 3Department of Veterinary Medicine, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-0880, Japan ABSTRACT: Herpesviral hematopoietic necrosis caused by goldfish hematopoietic necrosis virus (now identified as cyprinid herpesvirus 2, CyHV-2) has contributed to economic losses in goldfish Carassius auratus culture and is becoming a major obstacle in Prussian carp C. gibelio aquacul- ture in China. Several reports have described difficulties in culturing the virus, with the total loss of infectivity within several passages in cell culture. We succeeded in propagating CyHV-2 with a high infectious titer in a RyuF-2 cell line newly derived from the fin of the Ryukin goldfish variety using culture medium supplemented with 0.2% healthy goldfish kidney extract. The addition of kidney extract to the medium enabled rapid virus growth, resulting in the completion of cyto- pathic effect (CPE) within 4 to 6 d at 25°C. The extract also enabled reproducible virus culture 5−6 −1 with a titer of 10 TCID50 ml . The virus cultured using this protocol showed pathogenicity in goldfish after intraperitoneal injection. The virus grew in RyuF-2 cells at 15, 20, 25, 30, and 32°C but not at 34°C or higher. Higher incubation temperatures allowed earlier development of CPE, but culture at 30 and 32°C yielded a lower virus titer than that obtained at other temperatures because of heat inactivation of the propagated virus during cultivation. Cell lines derived from goldfish and ginbuna C. langsdorfii showed high susceptibility to the virus; cell lines from carp were susceptible to the virus using a medium containing goldfish kidney extract, but EPC, FHM, and BF-2 cell lines did not produce any CPE, even in the presence of the extract. KEY WORDS: Goldfish hematopoietic necrosis virus · GFHNV · Cyprinid herpesvirus 2 · Culture · Kidney extract · Growth temperature · Cell susceptibility · Carassius Resale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher INTRODUCTION production areas in Japan and has caused significant economic losses in the industry. Subsequently, infec- Herpesviral hematopoietic necrosis (HVHN), result- tion by this virus was found in goldfish in the USA, ing from infection with goldfish hematopoietic necro- Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK (Chang sis virus (GFHNV), was first reported among cul- et al. 1999, Stephens et al. 2004, Goodwin et al. 2006, tured goldfish Carassius auratus in Japan in 1995 Hine et al. 2006, Jeffery et al. 2007, Lovy & Friend (Jung & Miyazaki 1995). GFHNV is currently desig- 2014), as well as in the crucian carp C. carassius in nated as cyprinid herpesvirus 2 (CyHV-2) and classi- Italy (Fichi et al. 2013). More recently, the virus fied in the genus Cyprinivirus, family Alloherpesviri- caused mortality in the Prussian carp C. gibelio, dae. CyHV-2 has spread to most of the goldfish which is thought to be an ancestral species of gold- *Corresponding author: [email protected] © Inter-Research 2015 · www.int-res.com 224 Dis Aquat Org 115: 223–232, 2015 fish, in the Czech Republic (Daneˇk et al. 2012) and virus propagation and subsequently succeeded in has caused significant losses in Prussian carp aqua- obtaining a virus stock with high infectious titer after culture in China since 2009 (Wang et al. 2012, Xu et a few passages in a GFF cell line. Using this virus cul- al. 2013). The virus causes acute disease in goldfish ture, we then studied the in vitro characteristics of of all ages, and mortality following infection with the CyHV-2 such as the virus growth curve, growth tem- virus can reach almost 100% at temperatures be - perature, stability at some temperatures, and infec- tween 15 and 25°C (Jung & Miyazaki 1995). Diseased tivity in several other fish cell lines. fish show no remarkable external signs except pale gills, which result from severe destruction of the hematopoietic tissues (Jung & Miyazaki 1995). Shift- MATERIALS AND METHODS ing the water temperature to 33−35°C reduces mor- tality in infected fish, and the surviving fish can Virus and cells acquire immunity against subsequent infection by the virus (Tanaka 2005). Other control methods have CyHV-2 SaT-1 isolated from diseased goldfish in been studied, including a formalin-killed vaccine (Ito 1999 in Japan (Ito et al. 2013) was used in this study. & Ototake 2013) and selective breeding to establish The RyuF-2 cell line, newly developed from the resistant strains of goldfish (Tanaka 2013). caudal fin of the Ryukin variety of goldfish, was used Some previous reports have pointed out the diffi- to propagate the virus. These cells were cultured culties in cultivating CyHV-2. Jung & Miyazaki (1995) using Eagle’s minimum essential medium (Hank’s observed quite extensive cytopathic effect (CPE) in buffered; Sigma) or Medium 199 (HEPES buffered; cultures of fathead minnow (FHM) and epithelioma Sigma) supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum papulosum cyprini (EPC) cell lines used for its initial (FBS; Gibco, Life Technologies), penicillin, and strep- isolation, yet total infectivity was subsequently lost at tomycin (Sigma), which were abbreviated to MEM-5 the fifth passage in these cells. The same loss of and M199-5, respectively. Harvested virus cultures infectivity during virus propagation was reported by were filtered through a 0.45 µm filter unit (HV, Goodwin et al. (2006) using koi fin-1 (KF-1), FHM, Merck Millipore) and stored at −80°C until use. and EPC cells and by Jeffery et al. (2007) using KF-1 cells. Successful cultivation was reported by Li & Fukuda (2003) and Ito et al. (2013) using the goldfish Kidney extract from healthy goldfish fin (GFF) cell line. Ito et al. (2013) successfully con- ducted infection trials with virus propagated in GFF Goldfish kidney extracts were prepared using 3 cells. However, continuous cultivation of the virus lots of body kidney pooled from healthy goldfish: 2 remains difficult, even using goldfish-derived cells, individuals of the Azumanishiki variety (body length: and sometimes virus passage requires subcultivation 22 and 24 cm; lot 1), 2 individuals of the Azuman- of the virus-infected cells with freshly prepared cells. ishiki variety (body length: 12.5 and 12.3 cm; lot 2), The infectivity of the virus propagated according to and 2 individuals of the Wakin variety (body weight: the method of Ito et al. (2013) was only to the level of 80 and 86 g; lot 3). These fish were reared using 3 −1 10 TCID50 ml . Because analyses based on infectiv- groundwater in the Yoshida Station at the Tokyo Uni- ity are essential to define the characteristics of the versity of Marine Science and Technology, where virus, the low infectivity of CyHV-2 is a major obsta- HVHN has never been experienced among goldfish. cle in the analysis. As a result, there have been no The kidney pool was homogenized with a 10-fold reports about the in vitro characteristics of the virus, volume of MEM-5 and then subjected to centrifuga- such as the growth curve and permissive tempera- tion at 1900 × g (15 min at 4°C). The supernatant was ture range, until now. filtered through 0.45, 0.22, and 0.1 µm pore size filter In this study, we attempted to obtain virus cultures units (HV, GV, and VV, Merck Millipore), in turn, with higher infectious titer as an initial step in the and stored at −80°C prior to use. characterization of this pathogen. We asked why the initial isolation of the virus caused extensive CPE on the cells used in some previous studies. We paid Obtaining virus cultures with high infectious titers attention to the tissues, the kidney homogenate (extract) in particular, included in the inoculum used Virus passages 1−7 of the SaT-1 isolate after culti- during the isolation. We therefore added healthy vation by Ito et al. (2013), in RyuF-2 cells seeded goldfish kidney extract to the culture medium during in 25 cm2 flasks (Corning) were performed with Shibata et al.: In vitro characteristics of CyHV-2 225 MEM 5 at 25°C. For passages 8−10, the virus was kidneys of dead and surviving fish at the end of the propagated using MEM-5 supplemented with 0.2% experiment using DNAzol reagent (Life Technolo- (weight of tissue per volume of medium) goldfish kid- gies), according to the protocol for koi herpesvirus ney extract (lot 1). From passage 11, virus culture described by the OIE (2014). These samples were was continued using M199-5 supplemented with the tested using PCR primers specific to CyHV-2 extract (lot 1). At passage 23, the virus was cloned in (Waltzek et al. 2009). RyuF-2 cells by the limiting dilution method: a 2-fold dilution series of virus was established in a 96-well culture plate using standard procedures. One CPE- Virus growth curve positive well of the 96 well-plate at the highest 2-fold dilution of the virus was selected. RyuF-2 cells seeded in 35 mm culture dishes (Iwaki) were inoculated with the Sat-1 clone C1-P2 at a multiplicity of infection of 0.3. The virus was left to Incubation period until completion of CPE adsorb for 1 h. After rinsing the monolayers 3 times with Dulbecoo’s phosphate-buffered saline (PBS; The Sat-1 isolate obtained from passage 14 (104.8 Ca2+, Mg2+ free; Nissui Pharmaceutical), MEM-5 or −1 2 TCID50 ml ) was used to inoculate one 25 cm flask M199-5 supplemented with or without the extract (lot culture of RyuF-2 cells with either MEM-5 or M199-5 2) was added to the cells and incubated at 25°C.