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J. Virol., 09 1995, 5376-5382, Vol 69, No. 9
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

The foot-and-mouth disease virus leader proteinase gene is not required for viral replication

ME Piccone, E Rieder, PW Mason and MJ Grubman
Plum Island Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Greenport, New York 11944, USA.

The foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) leader (L) proteinase has only two known functions: (i) autocatalytic removal from the N terminus of the viral polyprotein and (ii) cleavage of the p220 subunit of the eukaryotic initiation factor 4F complex, which helps to shut off host protein synthesis. Cleavage of p220 appears to be important for picornavirus replication, since rhinoviruses and enteroviruses utilize a different proteinase (2A) to cleave p220. To explore the role of L in FMDV replication, we generated synthetic FMDV genomes lacking the L gene and tested their viability in cells. Genomes were constructed with the N-terminal Gly codon of VP4 positioned directly following either the first (Lab) or second (Lb) Met codon of the L protein. Cells transfected with synthetic RNAs lacking L and initiating with the Lab Met codon failed to produce viable virus, but cells transfected with RNAs that utilized the second AUG to drive translation of the viral polyprotein produced viable viruses. These leader-deleted viruses produced plaques on BHK cells that were slightly smaller than those produced by wild-type (WT) virus, grew to slightly lower titers than WT virus in BHK cells, shut off host protein synthesis more slowly than WT virus, and were slightly attenuated in mice. These studies indicate that the L proteinase is not essential for FMDV replication and show that in the cells and animals tested the L gene has a limited effect on virus replication.

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