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Journal of Virology, February 1999, p. 1374-1381, Vol. 73, No. 2
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Identification of Mutations Contributing to the
Temperature-Sensitive, Cold-Adapted, and Attenuation Phenotypes of the
Live-Attenuated Cold-Passage 45 (cp45) Human
Parainfluenza Virus 3 Candidate Vaccine
Mario H.
Skiadopoulos,1,*
Sonja
Surman,1
Joanne M.
Tatem,2
Maribel
Paschalis,2
Shin-Lu
Wu,2
Stephen A.
Udem,2
Anna P.
Durbin,1
Peter L.
Collins,1 and
Brian R.
Murphy1
Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892,1 and
Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics, Pearl River, New
York 109652
Received 25 August 1998/Accepted 20 October 1998
The live-attenuated human parainfluenza virus 3 (PIV3) cold-passage
45 (cp45) candidate vaccine was shown previously to be safe, immunogenic, and phenotypically stable in seronegative human infants. Previous findings indicated that each of the three amino acid
substitutions in the L polymerase protein of cp45
independently confers the temperature-sensitive (ts) and
attenuation (att) phenotypes but not the cold-adaptation
(ca) phenotype (29).
cp45 contains 12 additional potentially important point
mutations in other proteins (N, C, M, F, and
hemagglutinin-neuraminidase [HN]) or in cis-acting sequences (the leader region and the transcription gene start [GS]
signal of the N gene), and their contribution to these phenotypes was
undefined. To further characterize the genetic basis for the ts, ca, and att phenotypes of this
promising vaccine candidate, we constructed, using a reverse
genetics system, a recombinant cp45 virus that contained
all 15 cp45-specific mutations mentioned above, and
found that it was essentially indistinguishable from the biologically
derived cp45 on the basis of plaque size, level of
temperature sensitivity, cold adaptation, level of replication in the
upper and lower respiratory tract of hamsters, and ability to
protect hamsters from subsequent wild-type PIV3 challenge. We then
constructed recombinant viruses containing the cp45
mutations in individual proteins as well as several combinations
of mutations. Analysis of these recombinant viruses revealed that
multiple cp45 mutations distributed throughout the
genome contribute to the ts, ca, and
att phenotypes. In addition to the mutations in the L
gene, at least one other mutation in the 3' N region (i.e., including
the leader, N GS, and N coding changes) contributes to the
ts phenotype. A recombinant virus containing all the
cp45 mutations except those in L was more ts
than cp45, illustrating the complex nature of this
phenotype. The ca phenotype of cp45 also is a
complex composite phenotype, reflecting contributions of at least three
separate genetic elements, namely, mutations within the 3' N region,
the L protein, and the C-M-F-HN region. The att phenotype
is a composite of both ts and non-ts mutations. Attenuating ts mutations are located in the L protein, and
non-ts attenuating mutations are located in the C and F
proteins. The presence of multiple ts and
non-ts attenuating mutations in cp45 likely
contributes to the high level of attenuation and phenotypic stability
of this promising vaccine candidate.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: NIH, Bldg. 7, Rm. 100, 7 Center Dr., MSC 0720, Bethesda, MD 20892-0720. Phone: (301) 496-3399. Fax: (301) 496-8312. E-mail:
mskiadopoulos{at}atlas.niaid.nih.gov.
Journal of Virology, February 1999, p. 1374-1381, Vol. 73, No. 2
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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