In Vitro and In Vivo Characterization of a New Strain of Mosquito Flavivirus Derived from <em<Culicoides</em<

Mosquito-specific flaviviruses comprise a group of insect-specific viruses with a single positive RNA, which can affect the duplication of mosquito-borne viruses and the life growth of mosquitoes, and which have the potential to be developed as a vaccine platform for mosquito-borne viruses. In this study, a strain of mosquito flavivirus (MFV) YN15-283-02 was detected in <i<Culicoides</i< collected from Yunnan, China. The isolation of the purified MFV YN15-283-02 from cell culture failed, and the virus was then rescued by an infectious clone. To study the biological features of MFV YN15-283-02 in vitro and in vivo, electron microscopy, phylogenetic tree, and viral growth kinetic analyses were performed in both cell lines and mosquitoes. The rescued MFV (rMFV) YN15-283-02 duplicated and reached a peak in C6/36 cells at 6 d.p.i. with approximately 2 × 10<sup<6</sup< RNA copies/μL (RNA to cell ratio of 0.1), but without displaying a cytopathic effect. In addition, the infection rate for the rMFV in <i<Ae.</i<<i<aegypti</i< show a low level in both larvae (≤15%) and adult mosquitoes (≤12%)..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Viruses - 14(2022), 6, p 1298

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yi Huang [VerfasserIn]
Hongqing Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Xiaodan Li [VerfasserIn]
Lu Zhao [VerfasserIn]
Dirui Cai [VerfasserIn]
Shunlong Wang [VerfasserIn]
Nanjie Ren [VerfasserIn]
Haixia Ma [VerfasserIn]
Doudou Huang [VerfasserIn]
Fei Wang [VerfasserIn]
Zhiming Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Bo Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Han Xia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:


Insect-specific virus
Microbiology
Mosquito flavivirus
Next-generation sequencing (NGS)
Reverse genetic system
Yunnan

doi:

10.3390/v14061298

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ02732141X