Genetic reassortment between high-virulent and low-virulent Dobrava-Belgrade virus strains.

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Institute of Medical Virology (Helmut Ruska Haus), Charité Medical School, Campus Charité Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, Germany.

Published: December 2010

The tri-segmented RNA genome of hantaviruses facilitates genetic reassortment by segment swapping when cells are co-infected with different virus strains. We found efficient in vitro reassortment between members of two different genetic lineages of the Dobrava-Belgrade virus species, the weakly virulent DOBV-Aa and highly virulent DOBV-Af. In all reassortants, S and L segments originated from the same parental strain, and only the M segment was exchanged. To identify functional differences between the parental strains DOBV-Aa and DOBV-Af in cell culture and to compare them with the reassortants, we studied elements of the innate immunity in virus-infected cells. The contrasting phenotypes of the parental viruses were maintained by the reassortants carrying the respective S and L segments of the parental virus and were not influenced by the origin of the M segment.

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