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Journal of Virology, November 2003, p. 11849-11854, Vol. 77, No. 21
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.21.11849-11854.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Multiple Viral Determinants Mediate Myopathogenicity in Coxsackievirus B1-Induced Chronic Inflammatory Myopathy

Patricia E. Tam,* Melissa L. Weber-Sanders, and Ronald P. Messner

Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Received 5 May 2003/ Accepted 29 July 2003

Mice infected with myopathic coxsackievirus B1 Tucson (CVB1T) develop chronic inflammatory myopathy (CIM) consisting of hind limb weakness and inflammation. Amyopathic virus variants are infectious but attenuated for CIM. In this report, viral clones, chimeras, and sequencing were used to identify viral determinants of CIM. Chimeras identified several regions involved in CIM and localized a weakness determinant to nucleotides 2493 to 3200 of VP1. Sequencing of multiple clones and viruses identified five candidate determinants that were strictly conserved in myopathic viruses with one located in the 5' untranslated region (UTR), three in the VP1 capsid, and one in the 3C protease. Taken together, these studies implicate Tyr-87 and/or Val-136 as candidate determinants of weakness. They also indicate that there are at least two determinants of inflammation and one additional determinant of weakness encoded by myopathic CVB1T.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Minnesota, Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases, 420 Delaware St. SE, MMC 108, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Phone: (612) 626-6857. Fax: (612) 625-5663. E-mail: tamxx001{at}umn.edu.

Journal of Virology, November 2003, p. 11849-11854, Vol. 77, No. 21
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.21.11849-11854.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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