PMID- 37650730 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230901 LR - 20230912 IS - 1465-2099 (Electronic) IS - 0022-1317 (Linking) VI - 104 IP - 8 DP - 2023 Aug TI - A novel chimeric vaccine candidate for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) I and II elicits neutralizing antibodies against both types. LID - 10.1099/jgv.0.001889 [doi] AB - Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is an economically important virus within the swine industry. The virus causes respiratory disease and reproductive failure. Two species of PRRSV-I and II are co-dominant, yet no effective vaccination strategy has been developed to protect against these two types. With an aim to develop a chimeric vaccine strain to protect against both types, in this study, a chimeric porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) type I and II was rescued using reverse genetics for the first time. Four chimeric infectious clones were designed based on the genomic arrangement of the structural proteins. However, only the clone carrying the transcriptional regulatory sequence (TRS) and ORF6 of a PRRSV-I and ORF6 of a PRRSV-II generated a viable recombinant virus, suggesting that concurrent expression of ORF6 from both parental viruses is essential for the recovery of type I and II chimeric PRRSV. The chimeric virus showed significantly lower replication ability than its parental strains in vitro, which was improved by serial passaging. In vivo, groups of pigs were inoculated with either the chimeric virus, one of the parental strains, or PBS. The chimeric virus replicated in pig tissue and was detected in serum 7 days post-inoculation. Serum neutralization tests indicated that pigs inoculated with the chimeric virus elicited neutralizing antibodies that inhibited infection with strains of both species and with greater coverage than the parental viruses. In conclusion, the application of this technique to construct a chimeric PRRSV holds promise for the development of a highly effective modified live vaccine candidate. This is particularly significant since there are currently no approved commercial divalent vaccines available to combat PRRSV-I and II co-infections. FAU - Cha, Sang-Ho AU - Cha SH AD - PRRS Research Laboratory, Viral Diseases Division, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon, 39660, Republic of Korea. FAU - Hyun, Bang-Hun AU - Hyun BH AD - PRRS Research Laboratory, Viral Diseases Division, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon, 39660, Republic of Korea. FAU - Lee, Hyang-Sim AU - Lee HS AD - PRRS Research Laboratory, Viral Diseases Division, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon, 39660, Republic of Korea. FAU - Kang, Seok-Jin AU - Kang SJ AD - PRRS Research Laboratory, Viral Diseases Division, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon, 39660, Republic of Korea. FAU - You, Su-Hwa AU - You SH AD - PRRS Research Laboratory, Viral Diseases Division, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon, 39660, Republic of Korea. FAU - Jeong, Jiwoon AU - Jeong J AD - Division of Animal Care, Yonam College, 313, Yeonam-ro, Seonghwan-eup, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea. FAU - Park, Chang-Joo AU - Park CJ AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Yongdu-dong, Jung-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. FAU - Lee, Myung-Shin AU - Lee MS AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Yongdu-dong, Jung-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. FAU - Park, Changhoon AU - Park C AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Yongdu-dong, Jung-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - J Gen Virol JT - The Journal of general virology JID - 0077340 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Neutralizing) RN - 0 (Vaccines, Attenuated) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Swine MH - Antibodies, Neutralizing MH - *Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus/genetics MH - Vaccination MH - Vaccines, Attenuated/genetics MH - *Coinfection OTO - NOTNLM OT - chimera OT - porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus OT - reverse genetics OT - vaccine EDAT- 2023/08/31 12:42 MHDA- 2023/09/01 06:43 CRDT- 2023/08/31 09:53 PHST- 2023/09/01 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/08/31 12:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/08/31 09:53 [entrez] AID - 10.1099/jgv.0.001889 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Gen Virol. 2023 Aug;104(8). doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001889.