PMID- 25499299 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20151023 LR - 20150216 IS - 1872-7492 (Electronic) IS - 0168-1702 (Linking) VI - 197 DP - 2015 Feb 2 TI - Cysteine residues of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus ORF5a protein are not essential for virus viability. PG - 17-25 LID - S0168-1702(14)00509-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.12.004 [doi] AB - ORF5a protein was recently identified as a novel structural protein in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). The ORF5a protein possesses two cysteines at positions 29 and 30 that are highly conserved among type 2 PRRSV. In this study, the significance of the ORF5a protein cysteine residues on virus replication was determined based on a type 2 PRRSV cDNA clone (pAJXM). Each cysteine was substituted by serine or glycine and the mutations were introduced into pAJXM. We found that the replacement of cysteine to glycine at position 30 was lethal for virus viability, but all serine mutant clones produced infectious progeny viruses. This data indicated that cysteine residues in the ORF5a protein were not essential for replication of type 2 PRRSV. The bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) and Co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) assay were used to study ORF5a protein interacted with other enveloped proteins. These results showed that ORF5a protein interacted non-covalently with itself and interacted with GP4 and 2b protein. The replacement of cysteine to glycine at position 30 affected the ORF5a protein interacted non-covalently with itself, which may account for the lethal phenotype of mutants carrying substitution of cysteine to glycine at position 30. CI - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Sun, Lichang AU - Sun L AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China; Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases Diagnostic and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing 210095, PR China. FAU - Zhou, Yan AU - Zhou Y AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China. FAU - Liu, Runxia AU - Liu R AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China. FAU - Li, Yanhua AU - Li Y AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China. FAU - Gao, Fei AU - Gao F AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China. FAU - Wang, Xiaomin AU - Wang X AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China. FAU - Fan, Hongjie AU - Fan H AD - Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases Diagnostic and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing 210095, PR China. FAU - Yuan, Shishan AU - Yuan S AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China. FAU - Wei, Zuzhang AU - Wei Z AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China; College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, PR China. Electronic address: zuzhangwei@163.com. FAU - Tong, Guangzhi AU - Tong G AD - Department of Swine Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, PR China. Electronic address: gztong@shvri.ac.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20141210 PL - Netherlands TA - Virus Res JT - Virus research JID - 8410979 RN - 0 (Viral Envelope Proteins) RN - 0 (glycoprotein 5, PRRSV) RN - K848JZ4886 (Cysteine) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Substitution MH - Animals MH - Cell Line MH - Conserved Sequence MH - Cysteine/genetics/*metabolism MH - DNA Mutational Analysis MH - *Microbial Viability MH - Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus/genetics/*physiology MH - Swine MH - Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Virus Replication OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cysteine OT - ORF5a OT - PRRSV OT - Replication EDAT- 2014/12/17 06:00 MHDA- 2015/10/24 06:00 CRDT- 2014/12/16 06:00 PHST- 2014/08/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/11/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/12/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/12/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/12/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/10/24 06:00 [medline] AID - S0168-1702(14)00509-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.12.004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Virus Res. 2015 Feb 2;197:17-25. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.12.004. Epub 2014 Dec 10.