PMID- 24036229 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140707 LR - 20211021 IS - 1872-7492 (Electronic) IS - 0168-1702 (Print) IS - 0168-1702 (Linking) VI - 178 IP - 2 DP - 2013 Dec 26 TI - Concurrent porcine circovirus type 2a (PCV2a) or PCV2b infection increases the rate of amino acid mutations of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) during serial passages in pigs. PG - 445-51 LID - S0168-1702(13)00299-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.09.007 [doi] AB - Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) has a high degree of genetic and antigenic variability. The purpose of this study was to determine if porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection increases genetic variability of PRRSV during serial passages in pigs and to determine if there is a difference in the PRRSV mutation rate between pigs concurrently infected with PCV2a or PCV2b. After 8 consecutive passages of PRRSV alone (group 1), PRRSV with PCV2a (group 2), or PCV2b (group 3) in pigs, the sequences of PRRSV structural genes for open reading frame (ORF) 5, ORF6, ORF7 and the partial non-structural protein gene (Nsp) 2 were determined. The total number of identified amino acid mutations in ORF5, ORF6, ORF7 and Nsp2 sequences was 30 for PRRSV infection only, 63 for PRRSV/PCV2a concurrent infection, and 77 for PRRSV/PCV2b concurrent infection when compared with the original VR2385 virus used to infect the passage 1 pigs. Compared to what occurred in pigs infected with PRRSV only, the mutation rates in ORF5 and ORF6 were significantly higher for concurrent PRRSV/PCV2b infected pigs. The PRRSV/PCV2a pigs had a significantly higher mutation rate in ORF7. The results from this study indicated that, besides ORF5 and Nsp2, the PRRSV structural genes ORF6 and ORF7 were shown to mutate at various degrees when the PRRSV was passaged over time in vivo. Furthermore, a significantly higher mutation rate of PRRSV was observed when pigs were co-infected with PCV2 highlighting the importance of concurrent infections on PRRSV evolution and control. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Yin, Shuang-Hui AU - Yin SH AD - Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. FAU - Xiao, Chao-Ting AU - Xiao CT FAU - Gerber, Priscilla F AU - Gerber PF FAU - Beach, Nathan M AU - Beach NM FAU - Meng, Xiang-Jin AU - Meng XJ FAU - Halbur, Patrick G AU - Halbur PG FAU - Opriessnig, Tanja AU - Opriessnig T LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130913 PL - Netherlands TA - Virus Res JT - Virus research JID - 8410979 RN - 0 (RNA, Viral) RN - 0 (Viral Proteins) SB - IM MH - *Amino Acid Substitution MH - Animals MH - Circovirus/*growth & development MH - Coinfection/*virology MH - Mutation Rate MH - *Mutation, Missense MH - Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus/*genetics/*growth & development MH - RNA, Viral/genetics MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - Serial Passage MH - Swine MH - Viral Proteins/*genetics PMC - PMC7126594 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Evolution OT - Mutation rate OT - Pigs OT - Porcine circovirus type 2 OT - Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus EDAT- 2013/09/17 06:00 MHDA- 2014/07/08 06:00 PMCR- 2013/09/13 CRDT- 2013/09/17 06:00 PHST- 2013/06/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/09/04 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/09/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/09/17 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/09/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/07/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/09/13 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0168-1702(13)00299-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.09.007 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Virus Res. 2013 Dec 26;178(2):445-51. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.09.007. Epub 2013 Sep 13.