PMID- 30954462 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200603 LR - 20200603 IS - 1879-0984 (Electronic) IS - 0166-0934 (Linking) VI - 269 DP - 2019 Jul TI - Development of a cucumber green mottle mosaic virus-based expression vector for the production in cucumber of neutralizing epitopes against a devastating animal virus. PG - 18-25 LID - S0166-0934(18)30332-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jviromet.2019.04.006 [doi] AB - Virus-based expression systems have been widely exploited for the production of recombinant proteins in plants during the last thirty years. Advances in technology have boosted scale-up manufacturing of plant-made pharmaceuticals to high levels, via the complementation of transient expression and viral vectors. This combination allows proteins of interest to be produced in plants within a matter of days and thus, is well suited for the development of plant-made vaccines or therapeutics against emerging infectious diseases and potential bioterrorism agents. Several plant-based products are currently in varying stages of clinical development. To investigate the viability of virus-based expression systems for plant-made vaccines against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), the most devastating threat to the pork industry in Canada, we cloned the full-length genome of a cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) isolate and developed a CGMMV-based expression vector. We further employed this vector to express the neutralizing epitope (NE) of PRRSV glycoprotein 5 (GP5) in cucumber leaves via agroinfiltration. The coding region of the GP5 NE was inserted downstream of the open reading frame for coat protein (CP) and expressed by a readthrough mechanism. The chimeric virus particles were stable and the expression levels reached as high as 35.84 mg/kg of cucumber leaf fresh weight. This study offers a promising solution to the production of a low cost, versatile and robust vaccine for oral administration against PRRSV through a chimeric virus particle display system. CI - Crown Copyright (c) 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Tran, Hong Hanh AU - Tran HH AD - London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada; Department of Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada. FAU - Chen, Bin AU - Chen B AD - London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada; Department of Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada. FAU - Chen, Hui AU - Chen H AD - London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada; Department of Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada. FAU - Menassa, Rima AU - Menassa R AD - London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada. FAU - Hao, Xiuming AU - Hao X AD - Harrow Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2585 County Road 20, Harrow, Ontario, N0R 1G0, Canada. FAU - Bernards, Mark AU - Bernards M AD - Department of Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada. FAU - Huner, Norman P A AU - Huner NPA AD - Department of Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada. FAU - Wang, Aiming AU - Wang A AD - London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada; Department of Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada. Electronic address: Aiming.Wang@CANADA.CA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20190405 PL - Netherlands TA - J Virol Methods JT - Journal of virological methods JID - 8005839 RN - 0 (Epitopes) RN - 0 (RNA, Viral) RN - 0 (Viral Envelope Proteins) RN - 0 (Viral Vaccines) RN - 0 (glycoprotein 5, PRRSV) RN - Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cucumis sativus/*metabolism/virology MH - Epitopes/*immunology MH - *Genetic Vectors MH - Genome, Viral MH - Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome/prevention & control MH - Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus/*genetics/immunology MH - RNA, Viral MH - Swine/virology MH - Tobamovirus/*genetics MH - Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics/immunology MH - Viral Vaccines/*immunology OTO - NOTNLM OT - CGMMV OT - Molecular farming OT - PRRSV OT - Particle display OT - Virus vector EDAT- 2019/04/08 06:00 MHDA- 2020/06/04 06:00 CRDT- 2019/04/08 06:00 PHST- 2018/06/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/04/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/04/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/04/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/06/04 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/04/08 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0166-0934(18)30332-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jviromet.2019.04.006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Virol Methods. 2019 Jul;269:18-25. doi: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2019.04.006. Epub 2019 Apr 5.