Authors: Dipongkor Saha Jan V Doorsselaere Hans J Nauwynck
Publish Date: 2011/11/25
Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 258-261
Abstract
Porcine circovirus 2 PCV2 is a small circular singlestranded DNA virus that causes postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in pigs We obtained an infectious clone derived from PCV2 strain 1147 size 1767 bp with a 60 bp insertion in the cap–rep intergenic region at the 3′ end of the rep In vitro propagation and sequencing of virus showed mixed sequence for the cap–rep intergenic region Cloning of this region of virus from the passages 2 and 20 showed deletions of various size of the 60 bp insertion Viruses from the passage 20 showed deletions of the 60 bp insertion and had extra +1 to +5 or less −1 or −2 bp in the intergenic region as compared to 1147 These findings suggest that insertion of a 60bp DNA sequence at the 3′ end of the rep is unstable in vitro This finding can have implications for the genetic engineering of PCV2
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