Molecular and biological analysis of echovirus 9 strain isolated from a diabetic child |
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Authors: | Paananen Anja Ylipaasto Petri Rieder Elizabeth Hovi Tapani Galama Jochem Roivainen Merja |
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Affiliation: | Enterovirus Laboratory, National Public Health Institute (KTL), Helsinki, Finland. |
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Abstract: | The full-length infectious cDNA clone was constructed and sequenced from the strain DM of echovirus 9, which was recently isolated from a 6-week-old child at the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes. Parallel with the isolate DM, the full-length infectious cDNA clone of the prototype strain echovirus 9 Barty (Barty-INF), was constructed and sequenced. Genetic relationships of the sequenced echo 9 viruses to the other members of the human enterovirus type B species were studied by phylogenetic analyses. Comparison of capsid protein sequences showed that the isolate DM was closely related to both prototype strains: Hill and Barty-INF. The only exception was the inner capsid protein VP4 where serotype specificity was not evident and the isolate DM clustered with the strain Hill and the strain Barty-INF with echovirus 30 Bastianni. Likewise, the nonstructural protein coding region, P2P3, of isolate DM was more similar to strain Hill than to strain Barty-INF. However, like echovirus 9 Barty, the isolate DM contained the RGD-motif in the carboxy terminus of capsid protein VP1. By blocking experiments using an RGD-containing peptide and a polyclonal rabbit antiserum to the alpha(v)beta(3)-integrin, it was shown that this molecule works as a cellular receptor for isolate DM. By using primary human islets, it was shown that the isolate DM is capable of infecting insulin-producing beta-cells like the corresponding prototype strains did. However, only isolate DM was clearly cytolytic for beta-cells. The infectious clones that were made allow further investigations of the molecular features responsible for the diabetogenicity of the isolate DM. |
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Keywords: | enterovirus, echovirus prototypes, field isolate full‐length infectious clones, sequence analysis: echovirus 9 Barty, echovirus 9 DM type 1 diabetes, primary pancreatic β‐cells, insulin release receptor specificity, the vitronectin receptor |
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