Plasmid-Based Human Norovirus Reverse Genetics System Produces
Plasmid-based human norovirus reverse genetics PNAS PLUS system produces reporter-tagged progeny virus containing infectious genomic RNA Kazuhiko Katayamaa,b, Kosuke Murakamia,b, Tyler M. Sharpa, Susana Guixa, Tomoichiro Okab, Reiko Takai-Todakab, Akira Nakanishic, Sue E. Crawforda, Robert L. Atmara,d, and Mary K. Estesa,d,1 Departments of aMolecular Virology and Microbiology and dMedicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; bDepartment of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan; and cSection of Gene Therapy, Department of Aging Intervention, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Aichi 474-8511, Japan Contributed by Mary K. Estes, August 7, 2014 (sent for review April 27, 2014: reviewed by Ian Goodfellow and John Parker) Human norovirus (HuNoV) is the leading cause of gastroenteritis malian cells can produce progeny virus (10, 11), but these systems worldwide. HuNoV replication studies have been hampered by the are not sufficiently efficient to be widely used to propagate inability to grow the virus in cultured cells. The HuNoV genome is HuNoVs in vitro. The factors responsible for the block(s) of viral a positive-sense single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) molecule with three replication using standard cell culture systems remain unknown. open reading frames (ORFs). We established a reverse genetics The HuNoV genome is a positive-sense ssRNA of ∼7.6 kb that system driven by a mammalian promoter that functions without is organized in three ORFs: ORF1 encodes a nonstructural helper virus. The complete genome of the HuNoV genogroup II.3 polyprotein, and ORF2 and ORF3 encode the major and minor α U201 strain was cloned downstream of an elongation factor-1 (EF- capsid proteins VP1 and VP2, respectively.
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