PMID- 7667907 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19951010 LR - 20200505 IS - 0378-1135 (Print) IS - 1873-2542 (Electronic) IS - 0378-1135 (Linking) VI - 44 IP - 1 DP - 1995 Apr TI - Antigenic differences between European and American isolates of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) are encoded by the carboxyterminal portion of viral open reading frame 3. PG - 65-76 AB - Antigenic differences between European and American isolates of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) were revealed by serologic analysis of a recombinant protein derived from PRRSV open reading frame 3 (ORF 3). The hydrophilic carboxyterminal 199 amino acids encoded by the ORF 3 of a European (Lelystad) isolate of PRRSV were expressed as a recombinant fusion protein (BP03-P) in a baculovirus gene expression system. Sera from gnotobiotic swine exposed to prototypic reference European and American isolates of PRRSV and sera from conventionally reared European and American swine convalescing from naturally acquired PRRSV infections were used to characterize the BP03-P protein. Sera from gnotobiotic and conventionally reared swine exposed to European isolates of PRRSV were significantly more reactive (P < 0.01) with BP03-P than were the corresponding American PRRSV antisera using the indirect immunoperoxidase monolayer assay (IPMA). Prototypic European, but not American, PRRSV antisera also recognized BP03-P using western immunoblotting and radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIPA) procedures. However, gnotobiotically derived antiserum to an atypical American-origin PRRSV was reactive with BP03-P by both IPMA and western immunoblot. Despite a predicted potential for N-linked glycosylation, studies with tunicamycin and peptide-N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) indicated that BP03-P was not N-glycosylated in either insect cell cultures or Trichoplusia ni larvae infected with the recombinant baculovirus. Sera from rabbits inoculated with BP03-P failed to neutralize both the European (Lelystad) and American (ATCC VR-2332) reference isolates of PRRSV and did not react by IPMA with PRRSV-infected cell cultures. Taken together, the data suggest that the carboxyterminal portion of PRRSV ORF 3 encodes a non-neutralizing viral peptide that is partially responsible for the serologic differences noted between European and most American isolates of PRRSV. FAU - Katz, J B AU - Katz JB AD - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Ames, IA 50010, USA. FAU - Shafer, A L AU - Shafer AL FAU - Eernisse, K A AU - Eernisse KA FAU - Landgraf, J G AU - Landgraf JG FAU - Nelson, E A AU - Nelson EA LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PL - Netherlands TA - Vet Microbiol JT - Veterinary microbiology JID - 7705469 RN - 0 (Recombinant Fusion Proteins) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Antigenic Variation MH - Arterivirus/*genetics/immunology/*isolation & purification MH - Arterivirus Infections/*veterinary/virology MH - Baculoviridae/genetics/metabolism MH - Blotting, Western/methods MH - Europe MH - Female MH - Genes, Viral MH - Genital Diseases, Female/veterinary/virology MH - Immunoenzyme Techniques MH - North America MH - *Open Reading Frames MH - Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis MH - Recombinant Proteins/analysis/biosynthesis MH - Respiratory Tract Diseases/veterinary/virology MH - Swine MH - *Swine Diseases MH - Syndrome PMC - PMC7117291 EDAT- 1995/04/01 00:00 MHDA- 1995/04/01 00:01 PMCR- 2000/03/10 CRDT- 1995/04/01 00:00 PHST- 1995/04/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1995/04/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1995/04/01 00:00 [entrez] PHST- 2000/03/10 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 037811359400113B [pii] AID - 0378-1135(94)00113-B [pii] AID - 10.1016/0378-1135(94)00113-b [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Vet Microbiol. 1995 Apr;44(1):65-76. doi: 10.1016/0378-1135(94)00113-b.