PMID- 26239318 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160818 LR - 20151110 IS - 1872-7492 (Electronic) IS - 0168-1702 (Linking) VI - 210 DP - 2015 Dec 2 TI - Expression of antigenic epitopes of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) in a modified live-attenuated porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccine virus (PCV1-2a) as a potential bivalent vaccine against both PCV2 and PRRSV. PG - 154-64 LID - S0168-1702(15)30031-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.07.027 [doi] AB - Co-infection of pigs in the field with porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is common and poses a major concern in effective control of PCV2 and PRRSV. We previously demonstrated that insertion of foreign epitope tags in the C-terminus of PCV2 ORF2 produced infectious virions that elicited humoral immune responses against both PCV2 capsid and inserted epitope tags. In this study, we aimed to determine whether the non-pathogenic chimeric virus PCV1-2a, which is the basis for the licensed PCV2 vaccine Fostera PCV, can express PRRSV antigenic epitopes, thus generating dual immunity as a potential bivalent vaccine against both PCV2 and PPRSV. Four different linear B-cell antigenic epitopes of PRRSV were inserted into the C-terminus of the capsid gene of the PCV1-2a vaccine virus. We showed that insertion of 12 (PRRSV-GP2 epitope II, PRRSV-GP3 epitope I, and PRRSV-GP5 epitope I), and 14 (PRRSV-GP5 epitope IV) amino acid residues did not impair the replication of the resulting PCV1-2a-PRRSVEPI chimeric viruses in vitro. The four chimeric PCV1-2a viruses expressing PRRSV B-cell linear epitopes were successfully rescued and characterized. An immunogenicity study in pigs revealed that two of the four chimeric viruses, PCV1-2a-PRRSVEPIGP3IG and PCV1-2a-PRRSVEPIEPIGP5IV, elicited neutralizing antibodies against PRRSV VR2385 as well as PCV2 (strains PCV2a, PCV2b, and mPCV2b). The results have important implications for exploring the potential use of PCV1-2a vaccine virus as a live virus vector to develop bivalent MLVs against both PCV2 and PRRSV. CI - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Pineyro, Pablo E AU - Pineyro PE AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA; Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames, IA 5001, USA. FAU - Kenney, Scott P AU - Kenney SP AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA. FAU - Gimenez-Lirola, Luis G AU - Gimenez-Lirola LG AD - Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames, IA 5001, USA. FAU - Heffron, C Lynn AU - Heffron CL AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA. FAU - Matzinger, Shannon R AU - Matzinger SR AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA. FAU - Opriessnig, Tanja AU - Opriessnig T AD - Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames, IA 5001, USA; The Roslin Institute and The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. FAU - Meng, Xiang-Jin AU - Meng XJ AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA. Electronic address: xjmeng@vt.edu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150731 PL - Netherlands TA - Virus Res JT - Virus research JID - 8410979 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Neutralizing) RN - 0 (Antibodies, Viral) RN - 0 (Antigens, Viral) RN - 0 (Drug Carriers) RN - 0 (Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte) RN - 0 (Vaccines, Attenuated) RN - 0 (Vaccines, Synthetic) RN - 0 (Viral Vaccines) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antibodies, Neutralizing/blood MH - Antibodies, Viral/blood MH - Antigens, Viral/genetics/*immunology MH - Circovirus/genetics/*immunology MH - Drug Carriers MH - Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte/genetics/*immunology MH - Genetic Vectors MH - Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus/genetics/*immunology MH - Swine MH - Vaccines, Attenuated/administration & dosage/genetics/immunology MH - Vaccines, Synthetic/administration & dosage/genetics/immunology MH - Viral Vaccines/administration & dosage/genetics/*immunology OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bivalent modified live-attenuated vaccine (MLV) OT - Chimeric PCV1-2 vaccine OT - Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) OT - Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) EDAT- 2015/08/05 06:00 MHDA- 2016/08/19 06:00 CRDT- 2015/08/05 06:00 PHST- 2015/06/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/07/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/07/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/08/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/08/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/08/19 06:00 [medline] AID - S0168-1702(15)30031-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.07.027 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Virus Res. 2015 Dec 2;210:154-64. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.07.027. Epub 2015 Jul 31.