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Journal of Virology, February 2002, p. 1649-1662, Vol. 76, No. 4
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.4.1649-1662.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Novel Design Architecture for Genetic Stability of Recombinant Poliovirus: the Manipulation of G/C Contents and Their Distribution Patterns Increases the Genetic Stability of Inserts in a Poliovirus-Based RPS-Vax Vector System

Sang-Gu Lee,1,2 Dae-You Kim,3 Byung-Hwa Hyun,4 and Yong-Soo Bae1,2*

Department of Microbiology, Hannam University, Daejeon,1 Creagene Research Institute,,2 Department of Genetic Engineering, Youngdong University, Youngdong,3 Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Daejeon South Korea4

Received 3 August 2001/ Accepted 13 November 2001

Poliovirus has been studied as a live recombinant vaccine vector because of its attractive characteristics. The genetic instability, however, has hampered recombinant polioviruses (PVs) from being developed as an appropriate vaccine. A variety of different foreign inserts were cloned directly into our poliovirus Sabin 1-based RPS-Vax vector system, resulting in the production of recombinant PVs. The genetic stability of each recombinant PV was examined during 12 rounds of consecutive passage. It was found that the genetic stability of the recombinants was not well correlated with their insert size. Instead, elevated stability was frequently observed in recombinants with inserts of high G/C contents. Furthermore, a comparative study using different constructs of the human immunodeficiency virus env gene revealed that the internal deletion of the unstable insert was seemingly caused by the presence of the adjacent A/T-rich region. The instability of these inserts was completely remedied by (i) increasing the G/C contents and (ii) replacing the local A/T-rich region with the G/C-rich codon without a change of the amino acid. This means that stability is closely associated with the G/C content and the G/C distribution pattern. To see whether these findings can be applied to the design of genetically stable recombinant PV, we have reconstructed the heteromultimeric insert based on our design architecture, including the above-mentioned G/C rules and the template/ligation-free PCR protocol. The heteromultimeric insert was very unstable, as expected, but the manipulated insert with the same amino acid sequence showed complete genetic stability, not only in vitro, but also in vivo. Even though this guideline was established with our RPS-Vax vector system, to some extent, it can also be applied to other live viral vaccine vectors.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Hannam University, Ojeong-dong 133, Daeduk-gu, Daejeon 306-791, South Korea. Phone: 82-42-629-7528. Fax: 82-42-633-6608. E-mail: ysbae{at}mail.hannam.ac.kr.

Journal of Virology, February 2002, p. 1649-1662, Vol. 76, No. 4
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.4.1649-1662.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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