PMID- 26555162 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161111 LR - 20170812 IS - 1872-7492 (Electronic) IS - 0168-1702 (Linking) VI - 213 DP - 2016 Feb 2 TI - Evaluation of the use of non-pathogenic porcine circovirus type 1 as a vaccine delivery virus vector to express antigenic epitopes of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. PG - 100-108 LID - S0168-1702(15)30112-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.11.005 [doi] AB - We previously demonstrated that the C-terminus of the capsid gene of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is an immune reactive epitope displayed on the surface of virions. Insertion of foreign epitope tags in the C-terminus produced infectious virions that elicited humoral immune responses against both PCV2 capsid and the inserted epitope tags, whereas mutation in the N terminus impaired viral replication. Since the non-pathogenic porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV1) shares similar genomic organization and significant sequence identity with pathogenic PCV2, in this study we evaluated whether PCV1 can serve as a vaccine delivery virus vector. Four different antigenic determinants of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) were inserted in the C-terminus of the PCV1 capsid gene, the infectivity and immunogenicity of the resulting viruses are determined. We showed that an 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 affect PCV1 replication. We successfully rescued and characterized four chimeric PCV1 viruses expressing PRRSV linear antigenic determinants (GP2 epitope II: aa 40-51, ASPSHVGWWSFA; GP3 epitope I: aa 61-72, QAAAEAYEPGRS; GP5 epitope I: aa 35-46, SSSNLQLIYNLT; and GP5 epitope IV: aa 187-200, TPVTRVSAEQWGRP). We demonstrated that all chimeric viruses were stable and infectious in vitro and three chimeric viruses were infectious in vivo. An immunogenicity study in pigs revealed that PCV1-VR2385EPI chimeric viruses elicited neutralizing antibodies against PRRSV-VR2385. The results have important implications for further evaluating PCV1 as a potential vaccine delivery vector. 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 - 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 - Tian, Debin AU - Tian D AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, 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 - 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 - 20151107 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) 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/physiology MH - *Drug Carriers MH - Epitopes/genetics/*immunology MH - Genetic Vectors MH - Genomic Instability MH - Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus/genetics/*immunology MH - Swine MH - Vaccines, Synthetic/genetics/immunology MH - Viral Vaccines/*genetics/*immunology MH - Virus Replication OTO - NOTNLM OT - Antigenic epitopes OT - Porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV1) OT - Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) OT - Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) OT - Vaccine delivery vector EDAT- 2015/11/12 06:00 MHDA- 2016/11/12 06:00 CRDT- 2015/11/12 06:00 PHST- 2015/08/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/11/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/11/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/11/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/11/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/11/12 06:00 [medline] AID - S0168-1702(15)30112-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.11.005 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Virus Res. 2016 Feb 2;213:100-108. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.11.005. Epub 2015 Nov 7.